Sentence examples for of our background from inspiring English sources

Is it acceptable to hide certain aspects of our background in a résumé?

He started finding out about our interests and our parents and all of our background.

Loretta Abbott, a dancer and choreographer who gave swing-dance lessons that recent Saturday, worried that if the Dwyer closed, "a lot of our background and history" would be lost too.

To me, being an American means that my family is a little bit of this and a little bit of that, and education has been the great enabler for us regardless of our background.

So, my adoptive family got in touch with my biological family in Ethiopia (using documents given to us by my father, that were confiscated from us by our adoptive family after we arrived) to find out the truth of our background, since they were lied to by the adoption agency.

Mr Lindsey explains: "Middle-class life is built on abstract relations based on shared values…We are used to dealing with people we don't know in order to get something done and do it by abstracting away from the particular details of our background or personality".

But we're being held back, professionally, because of our backgrounds.

As choreographers, we have the same pressures and we feel very connected because of our backgrounds.

"It was a nice marriage of all of our backgrounds," said Adam Gerchen, the chief executive.

Each of us — by virtue of our backgrounds covering politics, business and markets in Washington, New York and Chicago — brought different perspectives.

"Everybody's pulling for each other, and I think it's probably because of our backgrounds, because our original clubs didn't really want us," Bell said.