Sentence examples for belgian background from inspiring English sources

His success is due, he says, to his family's Belgian background.

Drawing from his grandmother's White Russian heritage and his own Belgian background, the designer took the same edgy stance as when his deconstructed clothes were inspired by the Baader-Meinhof gang back in 1999.

While completing LOVE, LABOR, LOSS, I had managed to secure pro bono rights to the song, "Rafiki" by the incredible Afro-European artist, Zap Mama (of Congolese-Belgian background) who had already done work promoting global women's health with CARE.

Philippe Busquin, a Belgian with a background in physics and a longtime minister for the Socialist Party, has been selected to become Europe's new chief research executive.

Meintjes has a background in Belgian racing – a spell at the UC Seraing and the Lotto-Belisol under-23 team – and picked up his first stage race win last year.

Among the members of the Jeune Belgique were the writer Camille Lemonnier, whose works were often set against the background of Belgian peasant life in the naturalist style, and the poet Charles Van Lerberghe.

This would take just a quick search in the huge databases of the Israeli intelligence community; an inquiry to the Belgian security services for background information; and checking the website used by Mansouri and whether there's a real company behind it.

The question of how Belgians of different backgrounds can live together has become all the more acute since the Paris attacks, and claims by the media that districts such as Molenbeek are hotbeds of Islamist extremism.

Although neither her South African father nor her Belgian mother had an academic background, hers was a bookish upbringing, fuelled by trips to Wimbledon's local library, which she has been using since the age of eight.

And a heated argument broke out when Suhaila, the only non-white recruit - from a Moroccan background, like many Belgian Muslims - said she could understand why young Muslims might become jihadis.

Chams Eddine Zaougui is a Belgian journalist with a Tunisian background.