Sentence examples for of mixed background from inspiring English sources

The inhabitants were of mixed background.

There is also disapproval of those who are prejudiced against characters of mixed background (mud-bloods).

I thought of myself simply as Spanish, not English or Irish or even of mixed background.

A few years ago another man of mixed background published a wonderful book called The Color of Water.

We present and justify a well-tested introductory activity in which teams of mixed background compete to write probabilistic context-free grammars of English.

77 patients in this study were U.K. white, 6 were Indonesian, 2 Afro-Caribbean and the remainder 7 of mixed background.

"Children of Mixed Backgrounds Often Struggle to Find Their Place" is a now-shocking headline in the newspaper coverage of Lydia's funeral.

"Children of Mixed Backgrounds Often Struggle to Find Their Place" is a now-shocking headline in the newspaper coverage of Lydia's funeral.

Many young adults of mixed backgrounds are rejecting the color lines that have defined Americans for generations in favor of a much more fluid sense of identity.

A Federal task force today recommended abandoning the idea of adding a multiracial classification on Census Bureau forms and other Government documents and suggested that people of mixed backgrounds be allowed to describe themselves as members of more than one race.

"The kind of people we're looking for are mainly from physics and electronic engineering backgrounds," says Hand, who explains that the desire for applicants of mixed backgrounds is a result of the subject matter.