Academic achievement would play second fiddle to the character and manliness thought to be inculcated by prestigious boarding schools.
Values and attitudes inculcated over centuries are so deeply embedded that it takes protracted new experience to alter them significantly.
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Many attended a series of seminars organised by the Fabian Society where former permanent secretaries inculcated them into Whitehall's mysteries.
Second, our student newspaper was overseen by journalism professors, who inculcated their students with inspiring pieties about the ideal of free expression.
The Kamuzu Academy was founded, a college based on Eton, at which British teachers inculcated Latin and Greek into favoured African children.
Such ideas were inculcated into millions of girls when they joined the Girl Scouts of America, established in 1912 by Juliette Gordon Low.
Reverting from revolutionary fervour to habits inculcated during the long years of Mr Mubarak's rule, weary Egyptians seem inclined to tune out of such disputes.
The habit of tolerance and pluralism will not easily be inculcated.
Reagan's religious roots were deep, inculcated by his mother, an extremely devout, traditional Christian, and others who profoundly influenced him in Dixon, Illinois, in the 1920s.
It's a principle inculcated into his three sons, who all work for the Chinatrust group: Jeffrey Jr. is in the bank, Andre in the hotels division and Angelo in securities.
He is all theory, inculcated in him from birth.
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Since WTO cases often challenge Chinese law, Chinese lawyers are often best equipped to defend Chinese law to the rest of the world, as they are inculcated in the domestic legal system and culture, said Xiao.
"When you are parents, as adults you have been doing maths for a long time and you have your own experiences and your own already established knowledge that has been inculcated at an early age - it's almost instinctive, " she says.
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