Sentence examples for thin background from inspiring English sources
The transition officials spoke on condition of anonymity about the personnel move, a plan that could help defuse criticism inside the C.I.A. about Mr. Panetta's own thin background in intelligence.
This is not the only time that Ms. Bingham and Ms. Owen are too much in a hurry; throughout the play, characters are left irksomely thin, background and motivations are left hazy.
However, the development of thick recalcified pedosediments in the pockets, contrasting with the thin background Rendzinas requires active soil redeposition, during a late phase of geomorphic activity.
The dynamics of emulsions of smectic islands (thicker regions on thin background films) and of microdroplet inclusions in spherical films, as well as thermocapillary effects, were studied over extended periods within the OASIS (Observation and Analysis of Smectic Islands in Space) project on the International Space Station.
But without putting in the time, working your way up, some have a thin background and little staying power.
This visualization shows the abundant small, shared regions that exist between most plasmid pairs, represented as thin background lines.
(A ) Fission yeast cells expressing cdr2-GFP and pom1-tomato in wt, rga4 Δ (fat morphology) and rga2 Δ (thin morphology) backgrounds.
The thinnest of backgrounds is supplied for the hijackers, who are said to be fishermen, and who talk of their crimes as if still plying that trade.
The contrariness of the foreground against the background — thin, sorrowful voice against broad, genial ruckus — was echoed by the arrangements.
The subject stares out at us with a cocky, amused, marvelously exact expression, while everything else is dashed off with Halsian élan against a soft gray background whose thin strokes suggest brush cleaning as much as painting.
When, in October, Giuliani was accused by Senator Joseph Biden, Democrat of Delaware, of knowing "virtually nothing" about foreign affairs, he shot back that it was actually Biden, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, whose background was thin.
