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Instilled with the traditional British-style regimens of Kenyan schools, Morris rose from his seat when the teacher arrived for his first social studies class, and said, "Good morning, sir."
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Instilled with the traditional British-style regimens of Kenyan schools, Morris rose from his seat when the teacher arrived for his first social studies class, and said, "Good morning, sir."
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Instilled with conservative political values from her father and concern for social justice from her mother, Hillary became a Goldwater Girl in 1964 and a staunch admirer of Dr. Martin Luther King.
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Instilled by the Cadet Honor System with a fundamental, longstanding respect for truth, we graduates of the United States Military Academy believe that honor is a basic attribute of character.
Firedoglake » Cheney Ordered Libby To Leak Classified Information 2006
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Instilled with a sense of purpose, your spending habits naturally reorganize, because you discover that you need less.
Boing Boing: December 29, 2002 - January 4, 2003 Archives 2002
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Instilled within him while he was still a child was a solid foundation of values upon which he built not only his own future, but also the future of his company.
VISION, VALUES, AND COURAGE Neil H. Snyder 1994
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Instilled within him while he was still a child was a solid foundation of values upon which he built not only his own future, but also the future of his company.
VISION, VALUES, AND COURAGE Neil H. Snyder 1994
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Instilled into infant minds, and preached from their pulpits, we need not wonder that they, with the heartless metaphysics of northern sympathy, should consider slavery "an incalculable blessing," and should now be in arms to vindicate their treason, its legitimate offspring.
Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac William H. Armstrong
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Instilled into those from their cradles were all the dogmas of Puritanism, to stimulate the mischievous spirit of the race to evil works.
The Memories of Fifty Years Sparks, William H 1870
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"I am a Gentleman of long descent; and my fathers have fought and bled for the True King; and Norman blood's better than German puddle-mud," I replied, repeating well-nigh Mechanically that which my dear Kinswoman had said to me, and Instilled into me many and many a time.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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