tough neighbourhood

The school's in what you might call a pretty tough neighbourhood, and they're a rough bunch, those kids.

Eric grew up in a tough neighbourhood where a lot of the kids were stealing and doing drugs.

From a tough neighbourhood, they spend their first summer playing a rich beach resort club.

It sits in a tough neighbourhood, bordered by some problematic countries.

Although it was a tough neighbourhood, it provided good sports facilities.

The troublemakers, the children from the tougher neighbourhoods, will inevitably lag behind.

In a decidedly tough neighbourhood, his government has been trying to extend the reach of the state and the rule of law.

"It's easy to find out the names of the most despised and toughest neighbourhoods or villages, and have the boys hail from them."

A school that develops a warm sense of well being with its pupils, even in the toughest neighbourhoods, suffers far less from casual, endless vandalism.

Our academies programme was focused on raising attainment in some of the toughest neighbourhoods in Britain.

Brown started family life in the "tough neighbourhood" of Philadelphia Street, St Jude's.

He was born and raised in Les Ulis suburb of Paris which, despite sometimes being seen as a tough neighbourhood, provided good footballing facilities.

But since the events of 9/11, Western pundits have increasingly been wondering if Pakistan isn't just living in a tough neighbourhood, it is the tough neighbourhood.

As the Government pilots new measures to combat them, The Telegraph has been to the islands to find out the choices facing teenagers growing up in some of the toughest neighbourhoods.

I think most American Jews understand Israel's in a tough neighbourhood, and thus are realistic enough to allow for some differences of opinion between the leadership of the two democracies and allies.

The Telegraph was invited by Unicef to visit Trinidad and Tobago to see how it is using sport to keep kids off the streets of one of world's toughest neighbourhoods.

Then, in 1988, having been out of Hollywood for eleven years, she sold all her assets to produce The Beat, about a kid in a tough neighbourhood trying to teach poetry to local gangs.

A poet, playwright and garden designer, he and his daughter Marie first got their hut 13 years ago as a weekend retreat and an escape from Maryhill, a tough neighbourhood in north Glasgow.

Perhaps I should have warned him, when I sent him to his office on the East Side, that he was going to work in a tough neighbourhood, but he pretended to know so much and he was so insistent on working in that locality (because of his linguistic ability) that I said nothing.