Sentence examples for better upbringing from inspiring English sources

The investigators said the couple had told them they wanted the girl to have a better upbringing than they could afford, since they already had two children.

"I never did get over Ronnie, and I don't know it ever ended with him," she said, adding that she is pursuing a bachelor's degree in social work and volunteering at a youth program, all to help troubled youngsters so that they may have a better upbringing than he did.

When he was 13, his father decided to move to Istanbul, hoping to give his five children a better upbringing.

He was close with his adoptive parents, and believes he had a better upbringing in America than he would have had in impoverished Ireland.

This is in line with previous findings that educated women provide better upbringing for their children (26).

She knows that the Tsarnaev brothers, who lived in the United States for almost a decade, also had better upbringings than many other Muslims in the area, and thinks that their actions left lingering scars for those who dissociate from their radicalism.

But in what may well be the homestretch of his race for the Democratic nomination, Senator John Kerry, facing down a populist challenge from Senator John Edwards of North Carolina, is also working hard to overcome, for want of a better phrase, his patrician upbringing.

The boy, the product of Lewis's marriage to Grace Hegger, was better than his disrupted upbringing warranted — a graduate of Harvard magna cum laude, the promising author of a novel, and such a spit-and-polish aide-de-camp that a German sniper may have shot him under the impression that Wells himself was the general whom he was accompanying in a jeep in Italy.

Lombardi was far better on audio — discussing his upbringing, his faith and his philosophy, and adapting to working with the Giants after years of high school and college coaching.

Lawyers for a Saudi man who could face execution for the 1998 bombing of the American Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, were trying to help the jury better understand their client's upbringing and his indoctrination into jihad teachings.

Part of the reason that the contours of Mr. Gore's unusual upbringing are not better known, however, is that he himself has worked so hard to discredit a lot of authentic stories about his childhood -- the very stories, in fact, that would probably do him the most good politically.