up-bringing

The little guy making the “offer” was pitiful — dead-end job, poor up-bringing, not much future.

Yes, the President of the Valley Swim Club is a John G Duesler, Jr. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009

He says they are discovering ways of living very different from their suburban up-bringing in the southeastern state of Florida.

Brothers Rediscover Community Living on Recycled Bikes 2011

But in honesty, I have to say that it was my up-bringing which installed a sanse of respect for the police.

Police Rudeness Shock « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

But am I supposed to identify with my racial group, my religious up-bringing or my socio-economic class?

Muslims Back Livingstone Newmania 2008

Maybe it's my SF-heavy up-bringing but in the end I can't escape the Skynet scenario -- if sentient technology values organic life less than its own proliferation then we humans would be the first to go.

VOTD: Neill Blomkamp’s TED Talk: Life On Other Planets and the Future of Human Civilization | /Film 2010

Over-active conscience thanks to a very Orthodox up-bringing, despite being a recovering Catholic for 35 years.

A Cold Dark Place - Gregg Olsen 2008

It was considered essential for your good up-bringing and mental health.

The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 1 2010

There are a fair few on the Labour front-bench who will have squirmed themselves at that as they contemplated their own exclusive up-bringing.

Harman: Enemy of the Family 2008

There are a fair few on the Labour front-bench who will have squirmed themselves at that as they contemplated their own exclusive up-bringing.

Archive 2008-05-18 2008

Obama's up-bringing and experience is that of a person from the hoi polloi, the many, the menu peuple, the commons, and so he has a sense of immersion that, say, Caroline Kennedy does not have.

An Ideology of Audacity 2009