Sentence examples for Troubled upbringing from inspiring English sources

The story – political high-flier crosses path with low-life messenger (Sheppard's "troubled" upbringing, his drinking, his outstanding arrest warrants, the raised level of alcohol in his blood at the time of his death, were all publicised) – divided opinion in the media, and among the public to judge from the comments on the many news and blog articles on the case.

From a troubled upbringing and challenging adolescent years, there is definitely a feeling that she has grown up fighting.

Kerry Whitburn Age: 36 12 years' jail Had a troubled upbringing and was bullied as a youngster.

Hers was a sometimes troubled upbringing, including by a crack-addicted father who used to sell the family's belongings to fund his habit.

In response, Koocher told Goodman in an open letter that Arrigo was improperly influenced by the supposed "suicide" of her father – a former operative for the CIA's second world war predecessor, who was actually alive when Koocher wrote his letter – and her "troubled upbringing".

Fighting was how he escaped his troubled upbringing in Dallas, the way he had beaten cancer, and the way he dealt with those who accused him of cheating.

My California upbringing.

You look back to your Philadelphia upbringing a lot.

She was referring, of course, to the mobster shadows hovering in the background of Giuliani's Brooklyn upbringing.

He needs to get over it," he said, saying that was part of his south London upbringing.

The contemporary vision of the afterlife, with its harps and halos, is not how it was depicted within his Pietistic upbringing.