Sentence examples for a bad background from inspiring English sources

She later remarked this was "not a bad background for philosophy".

Jules does not have cheerleaders at home, but neither is she from a bad background.

While the baddies are colourful and complex, Givens is the truly compelling character because he's gone to the good from a bad background.

A bad background may convict a man by association: Ron Williamson's long history of alcohol, drugs, rape arrests, bad checks and angry outbursts made it easy for jurors to believe he was guilty.

At this point, Tyson's story was shaping up as the typical sports wish-fulfillment take - the poor kid from a bad background had found a father figure and was making good.

Here are some of their reasons for thinking that their writing background had to do with their present writing performance: Yes, because having good knowledge in a topic can still be ruined by a bad background in writing.

"I come from a very bad background," she said within minutes of meeting me.

Even the programme's title sequence ends with the house in split screen, with above-stairs against a white (good) sky, and the below-stairs reflection of the house set against a black (bad) background.

This is astonishing in an age when 32% of school-age children are from black, Asian or minority ethnic backgrounds; and is bad news not only for them but for all young readers.

She had a bad class background — her father was a famous calligrapher who had been in the Kuomintang administration.

She added: "I don't care about sob stories, bad background, poverty — none of that.