Sentence examples for obscure background from inspiring English sources

What, if not this tendresse for dames, persuaded the BBC's Today programme to invite the not notably engaging Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, a former Conservative candidate with grim views about the limitations posed by an "obscure background", to guest-edit?

You are going to need someone who knows how to run things and if you get someone with an obscure background with no background of establishment, they will find it very difficult and may not be able to produce the goods".

She said: "You need someone who knows how to run things and if you get someone from an obscure background, with no background of establishment, they'll find it very difficult and may not be able actually to produce the goods".

I obscure backgrounds to isolate subjects from their contexts.

Many of the officials that ran Henry's system were "new men" of obscure backgrounds rather than from families of high status, who rose through the ranks as administrators.

It seems that the effect of CAD follows different perception and learning rules in CT vs. radiography, and that the beneficial use of CAD to reduce perception errors of well-defined and more conspicuous lesions (e.g. colon polyps) can be learned faster than the use of CAD to detect lesions of low conspicuity that require differentiation from obscuring background noise (e.g. lesions on mammography).

The solid dark background of the blackboard helps the subject to stand out but almost obscures Rockwell's signature.

Walter Fields, a former state N.A.A.C.P. official who is serving as a consultant to the state Republican Party, said that Mr. Schundler was known more among black voters for his conservative positions on issues like gun control and abortion, which tended to obscure his background as an urban mayor.

Although respected as a soldier and a statesman, he owed his appointment as governor more to his obscure tribal background, which rendered him dependent on the Caliph.

He also obscures his background in the military industry, where he was a marketing manager for Hughes Aircraft and held posts at two consulting firms in Washington, by limiting his résumé to the last 10 years.

Since the Sun's brilliance obscures the background stars from view, it took many centuries before observers discovered the precise path of the Sun through the constellations that are now called the signs of the zodiac.