Sentence examples similar to lay a background from inspiring English sources

Beneath the family tragedy lies a background of local politics, social taboos and the tide of history.

Both lay out a background of grand seaside resorts and the relatively new fashion of beachgoing, with rumblings of war across the water that for a while held a much more immediate threat.

In the background lay a history and an arriviste but ebullient culture that habitually encouraged the casting aside of one persona and the dedicated embrace of another.

Mr. Cisneros pleaded guilty in 1999 to lying during a background investigation and was pardoned in 2001.

Mr. Cisneros pleaded guilty in 1999 to lying in a background investigation; President Bill Clinton pardoned him two years later.

"In the background of F.B.I. surveillance lay a widespread public fear of foreigners, especially German spies and saboteurs, combined with deep distrust of liberal or socialist ideas," he writes.

In the background lie a mountain and an indifferent sea, their beauty reduced to a supporting role.

The president said the measures, which may also involve attempts to arrest those who lie about failing a background check when trying to buy weapons, would have the support of the majority of law-abiding gun owners.

Reforming movements often arose in monastic or lay circles, perhaps against a background of apocalyptic impatience with the present world, and they could be domesticated by "the authorities," so that even popes could espouse reform.

Graham has argued that echoes of this line of thinking lay in the background of Mencius's thought.

Disputations de obligationibus appear to lay at the background of the modern practice of the academic "thesis defense".