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Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background. – Sachin Tendulkar	added by Dr. Cringe 4 years ago
That is not in the foreground. What is in the foreground is what has been agreed last year must be implemented. – German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We estimate that it's a sort of a three-year period while the negatives are still ongoing in the background and the positives are emerging in the foreground. – Canada Governor Stephen Poloz	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Photographers often speak of subjects in the 'foreground' of a landscape scene. Has any famous photographer ever dared to venture to refer to a five, six or more 'grounds' in one of their developments? – Francis M. Faber Jr.	added by WerterBuch 8 years ago
Once I drew on the coffee cup, I filmed it and rotated the coffee cup at the same time, so you have the panorama of the background and the coffee cup in the foreground. – Adrian Hogan	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes. – Constantin Stanislavski	added by anonymous 9 years ago

Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background.

– Sachin Tendulkar

added by Dr. Cringe
4 years ago

That is not in the foreground. What is in the foreground is what has been agreed last year must be implemented.

– German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We estimate that it's a sort of a three-year period while the negatives are still ongoing in the background and the positives are emerging in the foreground.

– Canada Governor Stephen Poloz

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Photographers often speak of subjects in the 'foreground' of a landscape scene. Has any famous photographer ever dared to venture to refer to a five, six or more 'grounds' in one of their developments?

– Francis M. Faber Jr.

added by WerterBuch
8 years ago

Once I drew on the coffee cup, I filmed it and rotated the coffee cup at the same time, so you have the panorama of the background and the coffee cup in the foreground.

– Adrian Hogan

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.

– Constantin Stanislavski

added by anonymous
9 years ago

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