Sentence examples for hungarian background from inspiring English sources

Her Hungarian background always worked to her advantage.

Not having a Hungarian background, I could only describe the difference by analogy with Ives.

With his Jewish and Hungarian background and a face dominated by a prominent nose, he went on to play a mixed bag of "ethnic" parts.

His father was of German-Jewish descent, his mother, Theresa, a Roman Catholic of Hungarian background, who converted to Christian Science.

He has a strong xenophobic streak and seems to hate Hungarians, having recently said that the top-flight team Cluj should not be allowed to play in the Romanian league because they have an owner with Hungarian background.

Liszt's Hungarian background is represented through a performance of his mighty oratorio, Christus from Budapest.

In Russia, Romanian captives were complained about being worse off than prisoners from other Austro-Hungarian backgrounds, a matter which may have contributed to their decision of volunteering into Romanian service.

Konta has Hungarian parents and an Australian background, and holds three passports.

A good deal of time was taken up being passed between schlosses and castles by the crumbling remnants of the German and Austro- Hungarian aristocracy, while in the background, the Nazis loomed.

No joke, I'm a sucker for these kinds of games, and playing in a crazy situation like that with Hungarian rock blaring in the background sounds like a nice break from blogging.

He has cited his ethnic background as being Hungarian.