Sentence examples for and upbringing in the from inspiring English sources

Mencius presents an interesting conception of the way that we reason by analogy from intuitive judgments and also a plausible conception of innate predispositions that are compatible with a major role for learning and upbringing in the development of character and virtue.

Our shared cluelessness, crazed hormones, and upbringing in the Middle-of-Assfuck-Nowhere, Vermont, added up to bupkis, knowledge-wise.

Philosophers have long been aware of the role of culture and upbringing in facilitating moral disagreements of this sort.

Hatred of school, my parents' disastrously bad marriage and an upbringing in the kind of church that was big on rules and low on compassion, added up to me being extremely angry and withdrawn, pretty much until I was able to leave home.

He had an extremely hard and poor upbringing in the industrial wastelands of eastern Ukraine.

She said her views were based on the Bible and on her upbringing in the Church of God in Christ.

After some convincing from the family to why he's so depressed about it, Krusty tells the family his real name, Herschel Krustofski, and describes his upbringing in the Lower East Side of Springfield.

Further, there was no association between OC symptoms and a religious upbringing in the study groups, which is in line with the literature on the lack of association between religiosity and OCD (Tek et al. 2004), but deviates from reports of a protective effect of religion on other forms of psychopathology such as alcohol and drug abuse, depression and disruptive behavior (Kendler et al. 1999).

In this book, she casts an arctic eye on recent phenomena — the Rodney King riots, the Spur Posse — and on her own upbringing in the Sacramento area.

Perhaps his race and his middle-class upbringing in the tense precincts of Bedford-Stuyvesant give Thompson the credibility to be more nuanced on the subject, or perhaps his nuances get lost in the noisy hype of the campaign.

Crane traces the roots of Ware's idealism and zealotry to his upbringing in the Plymouth Brethren, a sectarian offshoot of Anglicanism characterised by reliance on the sole authority of scripture and on the importance of intense Christian fellowship.