You had a difficult upbringing, how did that affect you?

Sometimes you say you need a difficult upbringing in order to be competitive.

But his early music was fuelled by anger about his difficult upbringing on a rough, inner-city council estate.

She apologised and was spared a custodial sentence because of her difficult upbringing.

He spoke of his difficult upbringing as the son of a bartender and a maid.

He remains grounded by his modest upbringing, and, after all, his company has to fork out for higher wholesale energy costs.

He comes from very modest upbringing and has always had family values.

It was a very modest house, a very modest upbringing.

I had a comfortable, yet modest upbringing.

Her modest upbringing gives her some first-hand knowledge of how hard this world can be.

It wasn't - surprisingly, in view of her adult faith - an especially religious upbringing.

Their sons, who became partners, rebelled against their deeply religious upbringing and proved to be financially unreliable, placing the future of the bank in peril.

Despite her parents' disapproval, she continued to rebel against her religious upbringing.

She was then asked concerning matters such as her name, her birth, her parents and godparents, her baptism, and her religious upbringing.

A soundtrack of twittering birds evokes the ambience of her privileged rural upbringing.

They're a friendly bunch, still untainted by the hectic world outside their rural upbringing.

He prides himself on his rural upbringing and his understanding of cultural traditions.

They were very down-to-earth people as you would expect from a rural upbringing.

Her rural upbringing had a lasting influence on the development of her art.