Sentence examples for ordinary upbringing from inspiring English sources

May stresses her experience, ordinary upbringing, and down-to-earth approach.

"I had a very ordinary upbringing in south London and even I was aware that actually school is a really dangerous place.

Women, he suggests, have a particular talent for such politics, with their preference for consensual, reasoned argument over verbal combat.Mr Bercow talks with pride of his ordinary upbringing, his state education and his Essex University degree.

Given his ordinary upbringing, it ought to be a risibly pretentious project, but the first volume - A Death in the Family (trans. Don Bartlett Harvill Seckerr, £17.99) - opened the door on a triumph.

The idea might be that if having a native propensity to acquire a trait will give rise to advantage or disadvantage given ordinary upbringing and ordinary free market arrangements, the propensity counts as a natural endowment advantage On this view, luck egalitarianism goes wrong by overreaching, insisting on undoing unproblematic inequalities.

My father worked for the government at the Pentagon and my mother was an educator, so we had a very average upbringing but that's helped me in my writing because I'm writing about ordinary things.

Born in 1964, he had a very ordinary, happy upbringing in Essex.

He had "a very ordinary Soviet upbringing": an academic mediocrity, he ended up at culinary college, then did his military service in Georgia and at a dog-training school.

McMahon is the more centrist candidate; he rejects political labels, preferring instead to emphasise his "ordinary working class" upbringing.

The one departure from the Wilson narrative of good-natured raucousness has been her decision to sue parts of the Australian press over its accusations that she embellished stories of her ordinary middle-class upbringing and lied about her age.

I am from Vicksburg, Mississippi, from a very ordinary although solid suburban upbringing.