Sentence examples for Hardscrabble upbringing from inspiring English sources

REIBEN: Perhaps it has something to do with his hardscrabble upbringing.

Walls doesn't pull punches in this account of her hardscrabble upbringing.

Warren dwelled on her hardscrabble upbringing in Oklahoma and waited until deep into the question-and-answer session to mention Trump.

But the heart of the 2 1/2-hour show (with a 20-minute intermission) was her straight-from-the-heart stories and songs drawn from her hardscrabble upbringing with 11 siblings and a pair of loving parents who provided love and security in the absence of most material possessions.

The octogenarian poet came from hardscrabble upbringing in Montana.

Douglas, a Yakima, Wash., native, had the most hardscrabble upbringing.

To reassure Americans that liberals, too, are woman born, the Democrats have also shared stories about their forebears and their hardscrabble upbringings.

The two men were ferociously ambitious strivers who escaped hardscrabble upbringings far from New York's bright lights and shared a common brio, a love for bridge and, crucially, a deep reluctance to break ties with the firm that had become such a part of their public identities.

(His quest for forgiveness from the Santiago family led him to Joey's sister, Elsa, who sobered up quickly after becoming pregnant at 15. She promptly cast off Billy and her hardscrabble Lower East Side upbringing in pursuit of better things).

The video is part biographical, showing her hardscrabble Oklahoma upbringing; part economics lesson, replete with charts illustrating how the middle class is losing economic ground; and part red meat for the Democratic base, with images of President Trump and others disliked by liberals: presidential aides Kellyanne Conway and Stephen Miller and former adviser Stephen K. Bannon.

The author of the Jim Chee- Joe Leaphorn series of Navajo crime novels recalls, at 75, his hardscrabble Oklahoma upbringing, his service in World War II (he lost most of a foot and sight in one eye) and his long career as a newspaperman.