6 sentences with “backgrounds”

Other slaves in South Carolina may have had similar backgrounds: born in Africa and familiar with whites.

Many of Europe's leading scholars remained members of the Church, benefiting from both its scholastic and humanistic educational backgrounds.

Rocks and the stone walls of caves were the most common backgrounds used in Palaeolithic painting and, to a lesser extent, objects and utensils.

However, in the relative social mobility brought about by the post-war economic boom, far more young people from non-elite backgrounds completed secondary education and enrolled in universities.

He had legislators chosen by lot (i.e., at random) and created new "tribes" that mixed men of different backgrounds to force them to begin to think of themselves as fellow Athenians, not just as zealous protectors of their own families' interests.

The Saint-Simonians, named after their founder Henri de Saint-Simon, were mostly highly educated young elites in France, many from privileged backgrounds, and many also graduates of the École Polytechnique, the most elite technical school in France founded by Napoleon.