Sentence examples for eastern background from inspiring English sources

Ms. Plapinger feels protective toward her husband because of his Middle Eastern background.

We have a traditional Middle Eastern background, so I always knew they wouldn't react well.

This was something I'd never seen before, and as someone from a Middle Eastern background, I found it extraordinary.

As a Jew of Mizrahi, or Middle Eastern, background, Gabbay was born into Israel's Jewish underclass, a group that outnumbered the country's Ashkenazi, or European, Jewish population, but was nevertheless mostly shut out of the economic, cultural, and political élite.

We settled on someone who grew up in Germany but had a middle eastern background.

A Jew of Sephardic descent, Kahlon has stolen many votes from Likud's traditional support base, the Mizrahim — Jews of Middle Eastern background.

It also featured contestants from Asian, Indian, and Middle Eastern backgrounds, and, in Season 5, recent immigrants.

Mr Begin was a father figure to lower-income Jews of Middle Eastern backgrounds who found themselves marginalised by the country's European Jewish elite.

The protest managed to unite a normally fractious public, momentarily creating common cause among the left and the right, religious and secular Israelis, Ashkenazim of European origin and Sephardic Jews from Middle Eastern backgrounds, and the country's Arabs and Jews.

But they had Middle Eastern backgrounds and had visited or lived in Syria.

From Mexico to Patagonia you'll find white people, black people and indigenous people, and all the possible combinations -- not to mention many people of Asian and Middle Eastern backgrounds.