Sentence examples for a tough background from inspiring English sources

Abramović came out of a tough background.

He came from Cuba, from a tough background.

"You also, both of you, had a tough background," the interviewer said.

She said her husband  "came from a tough background, and he knows how to never give up".

I had an employee many years ago who I liked a lot and who came from a tough background.

I come from quite a tough background in Liverpool and I grew up with kids who went wrong.

Desperate for work, she throws herself on the mercy of an old flame, Mike, who shared her tough background and is now a successful doctor.

"He came from a tough psychological background," Laura's brother said.

He was stocky, from a tough Middlesbrough background, and not what my son would have called a sissy.

Daniels is something of a Cannes favourite: when his film Precious premiered here in 2009, before winning two Oscars, he was greeted with a standing ovation for his unblinking portrayal of an African American girl's struggles to find her own path amid a tough Harlem background.

Labour backbenchers were exasperated at the less than sure-footed handling of the crisis by the leadership; but there was considerable sympathy for the popular MP, who came from a tough family background to defeat George Galloway at last year's general election in a sometimes bitter campaign.