Sentence examples for roman background from inspiring English sources
In 1673 Racine remained with the theme of the search for truth amid illusion and misrepresentation in Mithridate, which featured a return to tragedy with a Roman background.
Compared, inevitably, to both Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, Mr Rutelli comes from a well-to-do Roman background, has charm, brains, a nice family and a tough wife who is a well-known journalist.Now a youthful 46, he entered parliament in 1983, for the Radicals, a small party of the centre-left.
Mansell was beaten more often than not during his years at Lotus by team-mate Elio de Angelis, a talented driver and charming man from a wealthy Roman background, and a very different personality from Mansell.
The emperors of the 5th century were often controlled by military strongmen such as Stilicho (d. 408), Aspar (d. 471), Ricimer (d. 472), or Gundobad (d. 516), who were partly or fully of non-Roman background.
She is from an Irish Roman Catholic background; and she is an atheist.
He was born into a working class Roman Catholic background in Steventon, Ayrshire, and is married with two teenage sons.
Mr. Byrne's said that his Roman Catholic background did not help him with the role but that there was nonetheless something spiritual about the production.
In contrast to the blue-collar union members whose predominantly Roman Catholic background made them conservative on some social issues, he said, the new New Hampshire Democrat is a "Volvo Democrat," well off and socially liberal.
It turned out that Mr. McClinton knew a bit about angels and devils because of his Roman Catholic background, which helped Mr. Mosley, an agnostic, refine the drama's arc.
Born in the Limburg town of Venlo in 1963, he came from a Roman Catholic background but has since said he is not religious.
One reason why they are overlooked, Professor Brettell said, is because their transition was relatively seamless; linguistic similarities and a shared Roman-Catholic background helped to forge bonds between the two groups.
