Sentence examples for roots and background from inspiring English sources

Colin Irwin 20 Natty, Man Like I (Atlantic) 2 stars Natty's biracial roots and background in studio engineering for indie-rock bands make him a potential poster boy for the London melting pot.

In Celebration (performed 1969; filmed 1974), directed by Anderson, returned to a recurring Storey theme: the impossibility of making a clean break with one's lower-class roots and background.

My position last Friday – that his roots and background may or may not turn out to be relevant, and that in the meantime we should not rush to conclusions – was not only entirely reasonable but was a position taken more out of distrust of the media than any kind of Palestinian sympathy.

GiA Roots offers three thresholding methods to segment the image into foreground (root) and background.

The placement of Mr. Hamdani's name has fueled the continuing concern and anger about how his legacy was treated soon after the Sept. 11 attacks, when, apparently because of his Pakistani roots, Muslim religion and background as a biochemistry major at Queens College, he fell under suspicion.

Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts has increased his discussion of values, treading on traditionally Republican terrain in an effort to root his platform and background in broad moral terms voters can identify with.

President Obama was among the first world leaders to congratulate Francis in a message that emphasized the pope's humble roots and New World background.

Prescott's robust manner, working-class roots, and trade union background provided an ideal foil for the middle-class, Oxford-educated Blair, and he quickly proved an indispensable ally to the party leader, supporting Blair in his policy initiatives and launching a campaign to overhaul Labour's organization and increase its membership.

Coupling this argument with the view that all institutions, including governments, are inextricably rooted in their culture and background perhaps makes it understandable that he would not readily see how particular views of social inequality could be transferred readily from one culture to another.

Other authors have defined precision as the relative proportion of total root system inside a patch (e.g. Kembel and Cahill 2005) or the relative root mass difference between patch and background as a fraction of total root biomass (e.g. Einsmann et al. 1999).

GiA Roots includes user-assisted algorithms to distinguish root from background and a fully automated pipeline that extracts dozens of root system phenotypes.