Sentence examples for upbringing at from inspiring English sources

Searingly and unflinchingly, Blackburn describes an appalling upbringing at the hands of her catastrophically unfit parents.

"I received a strict, moral, bourgeois upbringing at a time when everything was certain," Ms. Ristelhueber said.

"I rejected my Christian upbringing at age 13, but I always knew I wanted to raise my daughters in something.

All over Miami, Jews from Latin America show the influence of their upbringing at the Seder table.

In Churchill's case, it is also probable that the classical tradition informed more of his upbringing, at home and at school, than he realized.

And so we hear of his deprived upbringing at the hands of a father who, as a dentist, disapproved of candy.

Lou is fascinated to find that Mrs. Ompala is a regal Englishwoman with memories of a privileged upbringing: evensong at Magdalen, games at her uncle the bishop's palace, dances at Lady Fitzhoward's and so on.

In 1971, Christopher, a bookish child with a strict upbringing, enrolled at the University of Michigan in Flint.

He points out that the British prime minister, David Cameron, had such a pampered upbringing that "at the precocious age of 11 he traveled by Concorde to the U.S. with four classmates to celebrate the birthday of Peter Getty, the grandson of oil billionaire John Paul Getty".

Through it all, Ms. Barrino, now 26, has been candid about the sometimes grim facts of her upbringing: raped at age 14, a high school dropout and single mother by 16, and the more recent estrangement from her father, who sued Fantasia over allegations in her book that he had physically abused her.

The Stuttgart striker takes his motivation from his difficult upbringing - at one point during the war in his country in the 1990s he is said to have avoided capture by hiding with his sister in a hole dug by his mother.