Sentence examples for poor beginnings from inspiring English sources

As an adult, Silver has risen above her poor beginnings.

Marley rose from poor beginnings in Jamaica to superstardom and after his death to iconic status: a new Che.

Relying largely on the public record, Coen and Chase tell Blago's story, from his poor beginnings on the Northwest side to his trial in a courtroom downtown.

Reebok officials rushed to praise Williams for her dashing playing style, her fashion sense and her storied rise from poor beginnings in Compton, Calif., to winning singles titles at Wimbledon, the United States Open and the Summer Olympics in 2000.

Despite many poor beginnings and a heavy weight of substantive critique, the social accounting project(s) are advancing and are increasingly informed by the alternative/critical projects.

Macdonald gives a vivid picture of the man who rose from dirt-poor beginnings in Trench Town in Kingston to become an international legend, Jamaica's answer to Ali or Che.

Haidar Ali came from a poor family and humble beginnings.

The documentary traces his life, including his beginnings in a poor farm family, but is most concerned with his role in political history.

He had lived and slept with his work ever since his beginnings as a poor art student, flitting from one rented attic to the next, carrying nothing but his canvases with him.

At the same time, if some states continue to be more prosperous than the others, it could lead to a big migration of labour from poor to richer states, the beginnings of which we are already starting to see.

Later calls for economic justice and the beginnings of a Poor People's Campaign are often ignored in the nation's celebration, not to mention the controversial connection King made between poverty and war in his opposition to the Vietnam War and his confrontation of the "triplets" of "poverty, racism, and militarism".