Sentence examples for unlikely background from inspiring English sources

He came from an unlikely background.

Dr. Petrenko has an unlikely background for an ice researcher.

It is an unlikely background for a would-be president in class-conscious Peru.

His unlikely background for a chic hotelier includes a stint in finance and as a lawyer.

For someone who has also taken pictures of some of Harlem's rougher residents, Mr. Dejean comes from an unlikely background.

Mrs. Meyer, a former marine who was raised in the segregated South, would seem to have an unlikely background for a radical.

"Real political change is about people coming from unlikely backgrounds and getting elected," Rees said.

Pioneering archaeologists of South Asia like Alexander Cunningham, James Fergusson and James Burgess were enterprising and in many ways admirable men, who came to their task from unlikely backgrounds.

He'd rather have people, even those from very unlikely backgrounds, who seem to have an instinct for the trends in an industry (see box, p. 116).

However, it is unlikely that background purifying selection started to act on a large non-coding region only at a certain point during the last 20 25 MY, after the divergence of humans and rhesus lineages.

It is unlikely that background exposure will have effects if the blood lead concentrations in the TLC trial did not.