Sentence examples for today's background from inspiring English sources

How many murderers would have passed today's background checks?

Today's background of bitter divisions over war with Iraq could hardly be more different.Besides, the round's troubles concern more than just missed deadlines (see article).

Against today's background of financial markets with global reach and widespread invocations of the need for austerity in which governments are seldom challenged as they ritualistically turn their pockets out and complain that the cupboard is bare, neither disease causation nor health ethics can sensibly be separated from politics and economics.

However, Roadie has been developing and testing a proprietary background check system because the company believes that some of today's background check systems have holes that need to be addressed.

Journalists are also given a broad, background account of the proceedings from a party spokesperson, although the discussion about reform in the NSW division wasn't referenced explicitly in this week's background briefing.

But senators who voted against last year's background check bill, particularly four rebel Democrats, fear the negative political consequences of crossing the NRA far more than direct campaign contributions.

Daniel Carey, a National Rifle Association lobbyist, complained that 2013's background check law was "unnecessary and unconstitutional" and that it "only unnecessarily burdens law-abiding citizens," according to the Associated Press.

-- Posted by Diana Holbrook-LambuTHETHE WILD SIDE Extinction is so much a part of today's cultural background -- this species endangered, that habitat lost, save the whale, save the rhino, save the rain forest -- that it's strange to think that as little as 200 years ago, most people didn't think extinction was possible.

Born in a suburb of Belfast in 1977, Murray's background is in journalism.

When he was elected in 2002, Mr. da Silva's background as a union leader and a leftist unnerved international financial markets and the Bush administration.

As Andrew Romano wrote in Newsweek last year, Christie's background as a prosecutor instilled a Manichaean instinct: "Christie's strategy is to use the power of the bully pulpit to make his opponents look foolish.