Compared to Busnello, the captain comes from a pretty well to do background, spending his childhood in Spain, Malaysia, the Netherlands and India thanks to his father's job as a diplomat.
New entrants into journalism often come from fairly well-to-do backgrounds.
They were generally from well-to-do backgrounds, these VADs, if not all Downton-posh.
Both came from well-to-do backgrounds -- his father was a judge in Ohio; her family owned textile mills -- and they never considered exile to the suburbs.
Over the years I've met countless adults from well-to-do backgrounds whose parents told them they mustn't draw, cook, or fix cars for a living.
The fact that Mr. Romney's sons have not served is not necessarily surprising, she said, because the military tends to be dominated by those from less well-to-do backgrounds.
And nobody should think that life is all that easy for Latin Americans migrating to Miami, even for those from comparatively well-to-do backgrounds, warns Kathy Riano-Lopez, an immigration lawyer originally from Colombia.
"But the kids [in Fullerton] are rich kids, coming from well-to-do backgrounds, and when they come to school they bring their parents' expectations, resources, a lot of extras.
In other words, though with his title Lonergan implies these youths represent their generation (the play is set in late March ,1982), they more pointedly represent kids from well-to-do backgrounds who nonetheless haven't had accurate moral compasses handed to them along with their other assumed entitlements.
From a well-to-do background, he was raised partly in Saudi Arabia, where his father works as a lawyer.
It's crazy, when you have somebody who isn't coming from a well-to-do background, and to play amateur golf, to play any of this, is very expensive".
