Sentence examples for of humble background from inspiring English sources

Høegh-Guldberg was of humble background.

April 1, 1963 The most frequent defense of boxing is that it has given many individuals of humble background the chance of a decent life.

The hero who gives his name to Hænsna-Þoris saga is a man of humble background who makes money as a peddler and becomes a wealthy but unpopular landowner.

The eyes of the title belong to the heroine, Elfride, the beautiful but emotionally immature daughter of a class-conscious vicar, who vacillates fatally between two suitors: a young aspiring architect of humble background, and his mentor, a metropolitan intellectual.

George Papadopoulos's partners in the coup had been men of humble background who believed that Greece's elite were responsible for the country's weak state.Mr Papadopoulos's six years of power produced mixed blessings for America and its western friends.

A young man of humble background, Jean-Baptiste Baratte is ordered to exhume the vast and ancient cemetery of Les Innocents in the poor Parisian quarter of Les Halles and demolish its church.

It was not helped by what Mr. Huckabee later recalled as a hostile reception to himself and his family, as Republicans of humble background, when they moved into the governor's mansion in a prestigious neighborhood in Little Rock.

A coterie of Hashemite royals, grand merchants and feudal landlords dominated Iraq then; for ambitious boys of humble background, the army offered one of the few paths for advancement.

The tale, as lovingly told by Mr. Feldman in his book, "Butchery on Bond Street," boils down to this: Harvey Burdell was a dentist of humble background who built a thriving practice in his four-story town house at 31 Bond Street, midway between the vice dens of the Bowery and the glitzier honky-tonk of lower Broadway.

The economic storms of recent years have raised concerns about growing inequality and questions about a core national faith, that even Americans of humble backgrounds have a good chance of getting ahead.

But Labour – under most leaders except Clement Attlee, John Smith, Mike Foot and perhaps Jim Callaghan, all self-assured men – has its own insecurities, bred of humble backgrounds – in Tony Blair's case the knowledge of what Fleet Street had recently done to destroy Neil Kinnock.