Sentence examples for poor upbringing from inspiring English sources

Their government granted both children a poor upbringing.

He had an extremely hard and poor upbringing in the industrial wastelands of eastern Ukraine.

I attribute failure to a poor upbringing, where parents or guardians might not have stressed education.

He said his poor upbringing in Georgia had an effect on his inclination not to ask questions.

Yet the excess weight, of course, was genuine, as was the poor upbringing, the drinking and the failure.

But he says that his own poor upbringing in rural west Texas helps him to understand the plight of those in Texas's most wretched border regions.

And while anyone can be driven toward celebrity, people from poor upbringings can find fame to be an alluring way to fulfill some otherwise unfulfilled need.

The young man overcame his dirt-poor upbringing and now owns his village's only shop.

Hinton had a poor and dysfunctional upbringing in south-west London.

Her book "In the Red," on the American working poor and her own upbringing in rural Kansas, is forthcoming from Scribner.

This feat is even more remarkable when one considers her upbringing – a poor, sexually abused black girl growing up in the newly desegregated south, without many hopes for a grand or illustrious future.