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Example sentences for: upbringing

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I like people and I am interested in learning more about them, plus I believe people's values and priorities are rooted in their upbringing.
Every candidate launches his campaign with a glossy account of his upbringing and career, but McCain's heroism in Vietnam makes his story a far easier sell than Bush's, Gore's, or Bradley's.
So, even if Freud and Skinner had wholly succeeded in explaining how upbringing and social experience shape us, it all would have been a waste of time?
As Hannah, who grows from spiky prole to uneasy denizen of the middle class, she's the sort of woman who's underrepresented in movies: smart and aggressive and desperately unhappy about the random injustices of her upbringing.
Rockefeller's harsh Baptist upbringing made him the perfect instrument of the marketplace, but it also set up a tortured cycle inside him.