How To Use Nurture In A Sentence

Yet countries perceived as our enemies nurture their computer geeks in the full knowledge that they are the future. Times, Sunday Times
Agreed - a certain amount of natural skill is required - but that skill needs to be properly nurtured.
They may not agree that evangelizing the unchurched is a higher priority than worship and nurture. Navigating the Winds of Change
The song and minstrelsy of Wales have from the earliest period of its history been nurtured by its eisteddfodau. The Poetry of Wales
She has a reservoir of talent, which needs to be nurtured and taken to higher levels.

So how are churches today seeking to nurture the next generation of Christian social activists?
If, through their labors to transform misava into masimu, women established traditional tenure rights not explicitly recognized by patriliny, then likewise, through the everyday habits of farming, women learned, performed, and nurtured relationships that overlapped with, but ranged far beyond, blood - and marriage-based patrilineal kinship. Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
Having small, achievable goals creates a positive feedback loop that nurtures your resolve.
For example, the Banpo people cultivate millet , is from the north common ancestor Setaria nurture formed.
Wildlife must be nurtured for what it is, the solar-powered foundation of local ecology and local economy. Times, Sunday Times
It is for logistical rather than symbolic reasons that we are meeting at Old Albanian rugby club in Hertfordshire rather than Twickenham, but it allows Steele to make the point that he hopes to nurture the grassroots as well as the elite game, especially the enthusiastic volunteers that sustain it. England can win 2015 World Cup, says RFU chief executive John Steele
Then we are left with an empirical question of understanding how nature and nurture interact.
A Los Angeles artist who gave that city's art establishment a bursting sense of pride for having nurtured such an obstreperous talent, he earned his celebrity status in part by retaining the obsessions and wounds of a smart Catholic working-class kid from the suburbs of Detroit who had never entirely assimilated to his sun-splashed California home. How Will the Future Judge Him?
But however many were in the household, we would know that in her setting, her days would ordinarily be taken up with the hard, unrecompensed work of women of all ages: to feed and clothe and nurture her growing household.
In fact, this mini-album seems to entirely results of an enthusiastic outburst of energy, nurtured while the man was regularly deejaying at squatters parties during the nineties.
Parents want to know the best way to nurture and raise their child to adulthood.
Ridley's goal is to demolish this view and explain why Galton's nature / nurture dichotomy is erroneous.
The nurtured blossoms gave way to the electrified fence of the camel-racing track in the arid wilderness and then to seemingly trackless dunes like vast featureless waves frozen in motion.
Only within a conjugal union could women be chaste and virtuous, and nurture a positive influence on children and men.
Its galleries and studios have nurtured numerous art dealers, designers and architects. Times, Sunday Times
An Eagle Named Freedom (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): An Eagle Named Freedom (Morrow) chronicles how Jeff Guidry nurtured an eaglet with two broken wings back to health — and then, when Guidry began fighting his own battle against non-Hodgkins lymphoma, the eagle guided him to fight for his own life. Portland Book Events: May 22-28 - Reading Local: Portland
However, their lovingly nurtured plots could be swallowed up by Eastleigh Council's plans to build hundreds of homes.
It is the cathexis that makes love both exquisite and painful but it is the "will to nurture one's own and another's spiritual growth" that makes it endure. Archive 2008-07-01
He did not mean that Judge Molloy should be protected and nurtured, which is the actual purpose of the species law. NYT > Home Page
The study seems to show that nurture is more important than nature in shaping a child's character and future prospects.
Nurture passes nature.
The list now covers ayurveda, siddha, unani, homeopathy, yoga and naturopathy and unani and there is a separate department under the Union Health Ministry that seeks to protect and nurture them. Reiki, acupuncture fail to get official nod
I'm lazy and profligate by nature, and have expensive tastes by nurture. THE SEASON OF LILLIAN DAWES
Our aim is evangelism and the nurture of young disciples. Working with Teenagers
A Memphis institution in the 1960s and 1970s, the label nurtured and fostered the original generation of soul musicians. Raw Copy: A Week To Remember In Memphis
An unusual aspect of Wingate's life was his unwavering support of Zionism nurtured perhaps by his unshakable belief in the Old Testament.
Another unusual aspect of Fred's character is his ability to pick and nurture people.
When the missionary is furloughing, the church assists with the spiritual nurture, care and physical needs of the missionary such as helping to locate housing while on furlough.
The nature versus nurture debate was specious, but not for the reasons he had supposed. A THEORY OF RELATIVITY
In Britain, we know how to nurture an ironic infatuation with signs of difference, status and style.
It was a politics that rejected as falsely optimistic (if not self-interested) approaches like Stephen's, which posited women's sexual consent and consent to marry as sufficiently unproblematic, and the sexes 'common interest in revitalization of Spirit as sufficiently strong, to permit immediate resolution of sex-class conflict through communal cooperation and the sacralization of feminine nurture. 47 Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583
We also believe that certain settings and certain kinds of support can help parents form these bonds and nurture their children successfully.
We want to nurture the new project, not destroy it.
Yet in the very midst of these vices which had rendered his honesty dubious, and name bespotted, he nurtured in the depths of his soul three virtues capable of again elevating him -- an unshaken love for a young girl, whom he married in spite of his family, History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution
I don't just mean in the field of higher education, where Americans give, or give back, to their places of nurture on a scale that we find unthinkable.
Claims about dysgenics usually quickly degenerate into a big debate about nature vs. nurture. Dysculturation?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
So the preference for dolls or toy trucks is a mix of nature and nurture. Times, Sunday Times
The same Democrat party that nurtured and defended slavery for over a hundred years is now sanctimoniously admonishing a Republican, whose party had fought slavery throughout this nation's history, because the man said something stupid. DNC: Barbour 'defended the indefensible'
You say you are interested in the nature/nurture debate, but all the evidence is with nurture in your presence.
Doherty took the rural heartlands he has so carefully nurtured over the past four years.
Writing, which ought to nurture and give shape to thought, is instead being used to pound it into a powder and then reconstitute it into gruel.
For example he writes, ‘Ideally, marriage also enhances the life of the child, by providing it with a chrysalis of nurture and love.’
Pakistan, on the other hand, have serious worries ahead of the match and need to sort their bowling problems if they nurture any hope of a series-levelling comeback.
The cult of St George was nurtured at the court of Edward III and the saint became a divine protector of English soldiers in battle.
Or, perhaps more accurately, nature / nurture-not two separate entities, but two sides of the same coin.
He does what he can to nurture it, but otherwise leaves it to nature to do what it does.
Concerning such sacred endeavors, like praxis, theory and sapience, ab ovo usque ad mala the Ancient Greek hylozoists had generated and nurtured Science, Philosophy and Wisdom. In the Middle East, Stop the Killing of Sophia and her Children Now!
At the head of the creek is the farm on which his grandfather was born, and in this beautiful locality were early nurtured those principles of liberty, which shone so brightly in his after years.
The firm attributes its success to a talented staff and an open culture that honors individual creativity and nurtures teamwork.
In such prayer lies spiritual nurture and wholeness.
Parents want to know the best way to nurture and raise their child to adulthood.
In two years, he planted the seeds that Erickson nurtured into three bowl games in the last four seasons.
But he overestimates the extent to which the supremacy of nurture is generally accepted.
Though the centre is not immune from horn blare and tyre screech, a tranquillity hangs in the air, nurtured by luxuriant greenery and birdsong.
For more than a century, since Francis Galton first started speculating about the similarities of twins, nature-nurture was a war with a stalemated front and intelligence was its Verdun—the most hotly contested and costly battle. A Truce in the War Over Smarts and Genes
The study, which was published in the journal Nature, is a giant leap in geneticists' quest to better understand the strange witches' brew of nature and nurture that makes us who we are.
For Brittany, a sense of belonging is nurtured at sports like softball and bowling.
Even better, your supervisor, a top researcher in the field, wants to nurture your interest in science…
The voice is still natural and mostly unforced, and I hope very much that her lucky teacher will nurture it with care and wisdom, avoiding the temptation to force it into unsuitable stylistic repertoire as sometimes happens.
'Women can be more prone, simply because they are biologically programmed to be nurturers and to have what we call a caretaker personality. Home | Mail Online
The values that nurtured it were hierarchical, not popular; the authority on which it relied was sacral, not secular.
Religion is a product of nurture and therefore a matter of choice. I reject discrimination on the grounds of religion.
He helped nurture the Java Desktop System from concept to creation and even managed to close a few sales.
Few things are more disheartening than watching arrangements you've carefully nurtured come apart. Times, Sunday Times
A poinsettia is a living plant, and every instinct tells me that its continued existence must be nurtured, encouraged, celebrated. StarTribune.com rss feed
The sharp allotment of this or that feature to nature or to nurture alone is therefore always wholly wrong: and the nice estimation of the relative importance of the natural as compared with the nurtural factors must necessarily be difficult, especially for the case of mankind, where critical observation, on a large scale, and with due control, of the effects of environment upon natural potentialities is still lacking. Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles
What Lester most yearns for, as do most of the men in my practice, indeed in my life, is the unstinting limitless nurturer, she who was untimely ripped from his arms as a little boy.
The religion which has taught men truth -- above all things, _truth_ -- which teaches utter horror of a lie, which insists on the bare, bald reality in heaven and earth, which has taught men hatred of the false as the meanest and most unmanly thing existing -- this religion took its rise in claptrap miracles, was puffed into popularity by boasting pretensions, was born in trickery and nurtured by legerdemain! Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
They wanted to be helped and loved and encouraged and nurtured. Christianity Today
But if talent, of any sort, is not nurtured within the organization, any organization, we will see ossification and decay.
In addition to the physical, parents also have trouble finding time to nurture their kids ' emotional well-being.
This is normal because our role is to both nurture and protect them as we prepare them to leave us. Times, Sunday Times
A young boy's carefully nurtured flowerbeds went up in smoke this week when firebugs set light to allotments and destroyed everything in their midst.
Last year a national search for new songwriting talent began in preparation for Scotland's first festival of song, a biannual project to promote, encourage and nurture songwriting in Scotland.
One of the problems with the spurious dichotomies posed between nature and nurture, or genes and environment, is that they don't help us understand the process of development.
Interest in whether the essentials of being human are given to us by nature or by nurture has a long pedigree.
No potentate ever nurtured their children more gently than a pachyderm fondles its young.
This need for self-esteem can be carefully nurtured so that the horse will want to perform to boost its own ego even further.
Marje now admits that her carefully nurtured image has been torn apart by revelations from a new biography.
It needed nurture but the Labour council killed it off, ostensibly because it had debts of 130,000.
I nurtured a tomato garden on the window sill with the dirt in cheese boxes and the seeds coming in five cent packages.
The project will nurture the emerging economies of the Hunan and Guangxi provinces by improving shipping channels to the Yangtze and Pearl Rivers and thence to the sea.
Fontevrault there developed an “epithalamic” litera - ture, but it was intended only for the nuns and nurtured by commentaries on the Song of Songs. LOVE
But the leading edge, the next Boom economy that the state not only needs to nurture but has already begun to nurture, is in greentech. William Bradley: Why on Earth Would Jerry Brown Want to Be Governor of California?
For instance, in my particular case, I use milk thistle, which is silymarin, because it sort of nurtures the hepatic cells. CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Andrew Weil Discusses `Eating Well' - April 5, 2000
I think we need to be careful when we start talking about whether it's nature or nurture.
Very often it is our discrimination against them that helps nurture their antagonism towards us.
One of the characters nurtures a long-term grudge against the gods which she is finally able to bring before them. The Speculist: September 2004 Archives
they debated whether nature or nurture was more important
This is how they nurtured their budding romance. Christianity Today
One of the classic scientific debates, on a par with ‘nature vs. nurture,’ albeit far more obscure, is the question of what caused the great megafaunal extinction at the end of the Pleistocene.
As Thomas had come to massage a growing friendship with Frost, so she had come to breathe the same air as Thomas, for Eleanour Farjeon nurtured a secret, unproclaimed love for Edward Thomas.
On the unfloored hut, she who had been nurtured amid the rich carpets and curtains of the mother-land, rocked her new-born babe, and complained not. Woman on the American Frontier
My ancestors have nurtured it for generations. Times, Sunday Times
The $800 million stadium plan has been nurtured for years without any public fulminations from the team's principal owner, George Steinbrenner, who spent time in decades past threatening to move to Manhattan or New Jersey.
A further 120 million to nurture the tech transfer offices that put universities and entrepreneurs together to move the science from the lab to the factory. Times, Sunday Times
His early attempts to nurture Hawaiian natives like koa, ohia lehua, and lama trees were disappointing.
This need for self-esteem can be carefully nurtured so that the horse will want to perform to boost its own ego even further.
Nonetheless, one of the biggest thrills of "Blood, Bones & Butter" is watching her self-discovery unspool as the independent streak she was forced to nurture at such a young age takes stronger and stronger hold. Book review: 'Blood, Bones & Butter' delectable when chef Hamilton's in charge
They have only vague, dim ideas about feelings, the development and nurture of human emotions.
And in that book authors portrayed the opinion that nurture is what makes us what we are. Archive 2009-02-01
As a record company director, his job is to nurture young talent.
My ancestors have nurtured it for generations. Times, Sunday Times
So the preference for dolls or toy trucks is a mix of nature and nurture. Times, Sunday Times
In the nurture of children, they are taught in both religious traditions.
He was great for me as he helped nurture my career. The Sun
Agreed - a certain amount of natural skill is required - but that skill needs to be properly nurtured.
In order to have a long view of history, of capital accumulation in few hands, to vivify our past, to nurture a healthy memory, to develop theoretical and class consciousness and knowledge, we always have to check out what we have said and what we were doing in the immediate past. Venezuela: Beware, Big Business enters the Orinoco Delta and with it a coming Big War!
I knew this wasn't the case -- but if women believed that marriage meant the gift of a spouse who made a home for them, a "helpmate" who nurtured them, who made a social life possible, a mother who took care of their children, and a nurseful listener who was charming in uncharming situations -- if that was the case, then women propose on bended knee faster than you can say "diary-of-a-mad-housewife. Susie Bright: Are You a Marryin' Fool?
Horse and rider need to nurture complete trust, to tackle the field in fair weather or foul with cavalier bravery but with two minds, one of them human, intrinsically focused.
That Roy has become the winningest goalie of all time - and captured two more Cups in Colorado - is even further tribute to Les Habitants' ability to find the creamiest of the Francophone crop and nurture it.
Timotei Moisturiser is able to nurture the softness of your skin by working in perfect harmony with it.
Tiny baitfish feed on these amphipods, and the next point in the cycle provides food for larger fish, which in turn nurture popular gamefish, among others.
We want to look at what more we need to do to support and nurture family relationships. Times, Sunday Times
At this level, the authorities must deal with delinquent parents who literally nurture criminals, almost the way other parents work hard to mould their children into decent citizens.
Before her incarceration, she imagines herself as the ruler of a matriarchal, benevolent, peaceful realm in which she is unmarried and autonomous, peasants are nurtured, and men forswear “military rivalship” (2.1.52). The Liberating and Debilitating Imagination in Joanna Baillies Orra and The Dream
I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death. Nelson Mandela
This is normal because our role is to both nurture and protect them as we prepare them to leave us. Times, Sunday Times
We took a break, for her to relax, center, rest and nurture herself.
Strategies to nurture the party's attractiveness to blocs of non-white voters will be increasingly important as the population changes.
It is fought by a generation nurtured on high technology. Times, Sunday Times
An unusual aspect of Wingate's life was his unwavering support of Zionism nurtured perhaps by his unshakable belief in the Old Testament.
We can not save the world's biological diversity unless we nurture the human diversity that protects and develops it.
The rough winters of Norway nurtured the forest cat's vitality, resourcefulness and sensible, semi-long, water-repellent coat.
The rapid transformation of warring societies into peaceful ones underscores the power of nurture over nature.
Certainly, running boards and helping nurture companies still fires him, as does his delight in seeing young people progress.
In some respects he's the last jazzman one would have expected nurture an interest in traditional classical music, yet he constantly experimented with European forms, instruments and ensembles. Mingus Haunts the City in February
The mother nurtures the children and manages the household; the father legally provides for the family and the home.
In fact, all her books grew, like a plant, from within outwards; they were born in the nursery of the schoolroom, and nurtured by the suggestions of the children's interest, thus blooming in the gar - The Seven Little Sisters Who Live on the Round Ball That Floats in the Air
Instead, be gentle on your body and rest, nurture and restore your qi (energy). Times, Sunday Times
She is creative of life and ongoing nurture.
Why can't we nurture home-grown players rather than throwing open our national league to foreign mercenaries? Times, Sunday Times
And you can answer many questions about nature versus nurture in that way.
For some, there is the pure joy of watching talent they nurtured through countless Saturday afternoons in the driveway playing Horse.
This is not easy, because as a society we are homogenized, scattered and systematically alienated from the landscapes and communities that nurtured us in our youth.
In a John Steinbeck novel, two characters engage in the nature vs. nurture argument.
The tender sprig is not likely to prosper under the influence of the tree which attracts its nurture; applies that nurture to itself, where the calls occasioned by decay are the most powerful -- An old woman and a sprightly nurse, are characters as opposite as the antipodes. An History of Birmingham (1783)
Our grandparents who planted and pruned according to phases of the moon are early examples of farmers using natural influences to nurture plant growth.
He brings a deep commitment to civil rights, nurtured in marches in Mississippi while a college student.
Since then she has nurtured a symbiotic relationship with her rolling court of photographers. Times, Sunday Times
The industry the farmers are trying to nurture is also - like most markets in China - plagued with fakes. Young Chinese farmers sowing seeds for organic revolution
Far less likely today than in yesteryear is that relationships are nurtured continuously. Christianity Today
He has had a good grounding, having been born in India and having nurtured contacts in the industry. Times, Sunday Times
We must value that reputation and work together to nurture it and remove any misconceptions that will put it at risk.
While following this epicurean lifestyle, the people fail to nurture their inner self and land themselves in trouble.
Those on the receiving end have hoarded their money and nurtured their resentment.
Many on the left seem to assume that if everybody has the same nurture, then everybody will be equally intelligent.
Geddes nurtured the belief that common ground in culture, if used wisely, could do society real, practical good.
The Golden Quartet line up was a dream Smith had nurtured for some 30 years till their formation in 2000.
America identifies and nurtures talent more methodically than any society I have heard about.
She nurtured the hope of becoming a teacher, a field of endeavour that received the approval of both parents.
He was great for me as he helped nurture my career. The Sun
Nuclear families allow the economically active to nurture the young and prepare for a short retirement. Times, Sunday Times
In other words, it is no longer nature versus nurture.
Then, properly nurtured, they would be " hatched " into the real world as fully formed companies.
The idea isn't just to make money -- though that will be nice -- but to repair and nurture the sense of community involvement, debate and local allegiance that is at the core of the American experiment in democratic self-government. Howard Fineman: Newark's Story -- and Ours
We must nurture the true messiahs with microphones and turntables, as we are all witnesses to the brand new/old beats.
Many productive commercial fishing areas depend on phytoplankton nurtured by the seaward flow of clearer water, which in turn nurtures the fish.
While Senator Obama invokes “self reliance”, he calls on us to nurture our grievances and seek redress from a government powerful enough to give us all we want. Change, Hope, Unity and – Grievances
We will nurture robotic, banal and nonreflexive culture unless we're aware of it. The Jakarta Post Breaking News
In the new situation the emotion to nurture people work should endow braw-new constant and method, while university, educator and student should keep well.
The poetry of great minds has grown and been nurtured in the midst of life's mystic tumult and disorder.
He also nurtures a dream about this land which includes the virgin patch of forest, Silent Valley.
Since then she has nurtured a symbiotic relationship with her rolling court of photographers. Times, Sunday Times
The money will be used to build on Bradford University's existing commitment to helping generate new firms through ‘themed’ business incubators which support and nurture start-up companies.
The place to nurture those skills is in school. Times, Sunday Times
Although we now know better, it's a nice story - asking us to respect and nurture the environment.
From the very beginning, love and nurture your child so he can begin to feel connected to others.
It's important to realize that for evaluating the likelihood of Idiocracy or Freakonomics, it doesn't particularly matter whether nature or nurture is the driving force in molding the next generation. Dysculturation?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
But the discoveries of modern genetics, in fact, have tended to suggest that nature itself is nurtured. Times, Sunday Times
The antagonism between Nature and nurture controls their fate.
Nature and nurture act together to tip a person over to act in cruel ways. Times, Sunday Times
Is it nature or nurture? Times, Sunday Times
Free-market reforms have nurtured a burgeoning middle class and even some super rich, both snapping up the latest in electronics.
STRANGER: But in those who were originally of a noble nature, and who have been nurtured in noble ways, and in those only, may we not say that union is implanted by law, and that this is the medicine which art prescribes for them, and of all the bonds which unite the dissimilar and contrary parts of virtue is not this, as I was saying, the divinest? The Statesman
One cone-shaped hill is topped with a rock pile like a nipple, a metaphor of nurture.
He was great for me as he helped nurture my career. The Sun
The sweet murmur of their water can provide balm for troubled spirits and their banks offer sweet shelter to nurture true love.
They have only vague, dim ideas about feelings, the development and nurture of human emotions.
These modern-day laagers nurture the desire of their mainly white inhabitants to cut themselves off from South Africa and practice local "own affairs". ANC Today
We want to look at what more we need to do to support and nurture family relationships. Times, Sunday Times
They have an empty space inside so they cannot soothe, calm, nurture or love themselves. Times, Sunday Times
Encouragement and real results are the essential ingredients required to nurture adequate supplies of willpower and to keep it growing.
The truth is that Northern Ireland is a state which nurtures sectarian divide and rule.
My name is Teucer; my sire was Telamon, and Salamis is the land that nurtured me. Helen
It's important to realize that for evaluating the likelihood of Idiocracy or Freakonomics, it doesn't particularly matter whether nature or nurture is the driving force in molding the next generation. Dysculturation?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
In the next instalment, I'll look at Ellington's background and the remarkable "Harlem renaissance" of African-American art that nurtured his early music.
The church is the seedbed of gospel preachers, and we must value and nurture what God plants among us.
So the preference for dolls or toy trucks is a mix of nature and nurture. Times, Sunday Times
Stoned" pregnancy and parenthood enhanced a couple's status in the pronatalist social system of The Farm, but couples had to balance the desire for children against the demands that pregnancy and child nurture would make on their time and energy. Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583
The works he has loved most — from Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind" to the poetry of Dylan Thomas — still nourish his imagination; this isn't only because Mr. Conroy is quite mad about words — he jots down every new one he encounters — but because his most cherished books are bound up with the unforgettable individuals who nurtured and influenced him. The Life Well-Read
Exhaustively knowledgeable about the science of cognition, and a foeman who gives as good as he gets (if not better) in the nature-versus-nurture culture wars, Pinker seemed the perfect foil for some of my ideas about the IQ test. Boing Boing
Vivid colors, mass-produced clip art and the low-tech animations emphasize cheap, throwaway culture that Americans are nurtured on.
Our aim is evangelism and the nurture of young disciples. Working with Teenagers
So the preference for dolls or toy trucks is a mix of nature and nurture. Times, Sunday Times

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