Sentence examples for very poor background from inspiring English sources

He comes from a very poor background, so to speak, and he's a very humble person.

"I think what he liked about Assad was that he had come from a very poor background and ended up ruling over other people.

He was from the usual very poor background and grew up under Tsarist tyrants when Jews couldn't go even to high school.

I'm from a very poor background: my mum was a single parent living on a council estate in Llanelli and we didn't have any money at all.

I come from a very poor background in Panama and I've always thought I needed to adopt survival skills in order to survive.

"I have never seen such a long-term story of children from a very poor background growing up to become adults and getting their life put together and trying to actually lift them out of poverty," Mr. Masi said.

His parents were from "very poor backgrounds", their families part of the large-scale migration from China to Malaya from the 19th century to the 1930s.

"Most of the youngsters there were poor, from very poor backgrounds," he said, and Morehouse "played a vital role of nurturing".

LL My dad's an academic and my mum was teaching in college when I was little, they are both from very poor backgrounds – and she can't have an empty cupboard, it just reminds her.

"Rabina [who plays Latika] and Azza [who plays Salim] were from very poor backgrounds," says Boyle. "One night, we heard a rumour that Azza's house had been demolished.

"Ninety percent of the pupils here come from very poor backgrounds," Mr Rodha says.