Sentence examples for proper upbringing from inspiring English sources

Virtue should be cultivated through proper upbringing, preparatory to "studies" in the strict sense.

This did not stop him writing a treatise, Emile, on the proper upbringing of children.

If Baltimore nurtured him, Boston provided him with a proper upbringing.

I wasn't, as Joni Mitchell was, an unhappily pregnant — and unmarried — aspiring folk singer from Saskatchewan, trying to square her desperate straits with her exceedingly proper upbringing.

David Cameron blamed "a lack of proper parenting, a lack of proper upbringing, a lack of proper ethics, a lack of proper morals".

The Judge pronounced himself satisfied that Yoko was willing and able to provide a "suitable environment" for Kyoko and that John would "coöperate in every way possible, necessary, and advisable" in her "proper upbringing and education".

My family is observant and I had a proper Jewish upbringing and education".

She recalls a proper, preppy upbringing on a New Jersey farm, in the kind of farmhouse that had seven fireplaces and a ballroom.

Annie Potts plays Gigi, her socialite mother who wants nothing more than to have her daughter back in the fold, the better to give her teenage grandchildren a proper Southern upbringing.

Speaking outside Downing Street at the time, the prime minister wondered aloud about the family background of the rioters: "The sight of those young people looting laughing as they go," he said, "demonstrated a lack of proper parenting, upbringing, ethics and morals".

The prolonged and heavy militarisation of the region played wrecked people's lives and ruined the economy, as well as depriving a generation of proper education and normal upbringings.