"It kind of happens in the background, because I have an iPhone which I love.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

He's got a full-feathered headdress. Or he's sitting cross-legged with his moccasins and a bow and arrow and a tepee in the background type of thing."

VOA: special.2010.11.29

Star players endure hours of interviews,talking about their football background and their preparation for the big game.

VOA: standard.2010.02.04

Critics say the national exam is biased, since it presumes a level of knowledge and cultural background that students from working class families may not have.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

We come from the same background, we have lived many of the same struggles and we have faced many of the same challenges that you have faced.

VOA: standard.2010.06.05

The event has added symbolism this year, coming against the background of Israel's rejection of demands by the United States to stop building in disputed East Jerusalem.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

There is also a scene of a banner with an American flag in the background and the New York City skyline with the destroyed World Trade Center twin towers.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

"We are finding that this is not only in the backward economy of developing countries, even though most forced labor today is indeed in the informal or the background agricultural sector of Asia, Latin America and then Africa."

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

"President Obama, based on an earlier story,had asked that the national security team gather further information on his background, including concerns that he might have been involved the deaths of a significant number of Taliban prisoners of war a few years ago.

VOA: standard.2009.08.17