(n.) The act of nourishing or nursing; thender care; education; training.
(n.) That which nourishes; food; diet.
(v. t.) To feed; to nourish.
(v. t.) To educate; to bring or train up.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study we have developed a measure of homemaker functioning based on conceptualizing the homemaker role on two dimensions: the instrumental functions associated with meeting the physical needs of the household and the nurturant dimension concerned with meeting the expressive needs of the household.
(2) The assessment of the infant's capacity to organize positive interaction experiences with a nurturing adult has led us to better understand the plasticity process which permits the neonate's recuperation form damage to the central nervous system (CNS).
(3) [We need to do more] to commission new work and nurture new talent [in the arts].
(4) Previous research by Bem has indicated that androgynous individuals of both sexes display "masculine" independence when under pressure to conform as well as "feminine" nurturance when interacting with a kitten.
(5) Thus the parents can utilize their nurturing capacities in their relationship with the child to bring about the best recuperation possible.
(6) That pattern is a dynamic tension that should be nurtured in the best interests of our options at the end of life.
(7) He says Britain needs to nurture manufacturing, perhaps taking a leaf out of Germany's book where businesses, regional and national banks work together to support enterprises for the long term.
(8) It is suggested that though competition with the maternal-nurturant rival may be worked through, often there is incomplete resolution of the surpassing and separation from the protective, loving, but dominant oedipal father, thus limiting true professional autonomy.
(9) Lord Mandelson, who has admitted New Labour did not do enough to nurture an active industrial policy in government, is leading a review of globalisation on behalf of the left-of-centre thinktank, the IPPR.
(10) By 2008, Ritchie realised he needed somebody to help nurture his baby.
(11) and emphasise nurturing, play and self-esteem (overfetishised!).
(12) Much of this money is being invested in nurturing new talent and producing great new music.
(13) What must be done to ensure a working environment that encourages and nurtures the development of young nurses?
(14) His ideas influenced the British Council of Churches’ reports The Child in the Church (1976) and Understanding Christian Nurture (1981).
(15) Nurturing a broad-based social consensus is more important than scoring points in a name-calling debate.
(16) But whatever, we have to look at the immediate future, make sure we have good people who can improve as individuals and good people at the top who can nurture them.
(17) However, nurturers of Britain’s nascent wine industry with an eye on an emerging market, where appreciation of wine is a status symbol, might hope that senior communist party palettes will have been tickled by the Ridgeview Grosvenor 2009, a sparking English wine originating in West Sussex.
(18) "The world that the nurturant parent seeks to create has exactly the opposite properties," Lakoff writes in Moral Politics .
(19) They were also remote from Chast, not particularly nurturing, and very much parents, not friends.
(20) MT: My sense is that theatre has been a place where people like Ian McKellen were nurtured and that that may have contributed to his powerful impact on the wider world.
Support
Definition:
(v. t.) To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar supports a structure; an abutment supports an arch; the trunk of a tree supports the branches.
(v. t.) To endure without being overcome, exhausted, or changed in character; to sustain; as, to support pain, distress, or misfortunes.
(v. t.) To keep from failing or sinking; to solace under affictive circumstances; to assist; to encourage; to defend; as, to support the courage or spirits.
(v. t.) To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain; as, to support the character of King Lear.
(v. t.) To furnish with the means of sustenance or livelihood; to maintain; to provide for; as, to support a family; to support the ministers of the gospel.
(v. t.) To carry on; to enable to continue; to maintain; as, to support a war or a contest; to support an argument or a debate.
(v. t.) To verify; to make good; to substantiate; to establish; to sustain; as, the testimony is not sufficient to support the charges; the evidence will not support the statements or allegations.
(v. t.) To vindicate; to maintain; to defend successfully; as, to be able to support one's own cause.
(v. t.) To uphold by aid or countenance; to aid; to help; to back up; as, to support a friend or a party; to support the present administration.
(v. t.) A attend as an honorary assistant; as, a chairman supported by a vice chairman; O'Connell left the prison, supported by his two sons.
(n.) The act, state, or operation of supporting, upholding, or sustaining.
(n.) That which upholds, sustains, or keeps from falling, as a prop, a pillar, or a foundation of any kind.
(n.) That which maintains or preserves from being overcome, falling, yielding, sinking, giving way, or the like; subsistence; maintenance; assistance; reenforcement; as, he gave his family a good support, the support of national credit; the assaulting column had the support of a battery.
Example Sentences:
(1) This excellent prognosis supports a regimen of conservative therapy for these patients.
(2) It is supposed that delta-sleep peptide along with other oligopeptides is one of the factors determining individual animal resistance to emotional stress, which is supported by significant delta-sleep peptide increase in hypothalamus in stable rats.
(3) Pathological and immunocytochemical data supported the diagnosis of medullary thyroid carcinoma.
(4) Technical factors that account for increased difficulty in these patients include: problems with guide catheter impaction and ostial trauma; inability to inflate the balloon with adequate guide catheter support; and need for increased intracoronary manipulation.
(5) Cantact placing reaction times were measured in cats which were either restrained in a hammock or supported in a conventional way.
(6) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
(7) Models able to describe the events of cellular growth and division and the dynamics of cell populations are useful for the understanding of functional control mechanisms and for the theoretical support for automated analysis of flow cytometric data and of cell volume distributions.
(8) The presence of O-glycosidic linkages between carbohydrate and protein in the DF3 antigenic site was further supported by the presence of NaBH4-sensitive sites.
(9) Theresa May signals support for UK-EU membership deal Read more Faull’s fix, largely accepted by Britain, also ties the hands of national governments.
(10) Consensual but rationally weak criteria devised to extract inferences of causality from such results confirm the generic inadequacy of epidemiology in this area, and are unable to provide definitive scientific support to the perceived mandate for public health action.
(11) The program met with continued support and enthusiasm from nurse administrators, nursing unit managers, clinical educators, ward staff and course participants.
(12) Male sex, age under 19 or over 45, few social supports, and a history of previous suicide attempts are all factors associated with increased suicide rates.
(13) It also provides mechanical support for the collateral ligaments during valgus or varus stress of the knee.
(14) The data support the conclusion that accumulation of lipid II is responsible in some way for the hypersensitivity of delta rfbA mutants to SDS.
(15) The International Monetary Fund, which has long urged Nigeria to remove the subsidy, supports the move.
(16) He voiced support for refugees, trade unions, council housing, peace, international law and human rights.
(17) Training in social skills specific to fostering intimacy is suggested as a therapeutic step, and modifications to the social support measure for future use discussed.
(18) We want to be sure that the country that’s providing all the infrastructure and support to the business is the one that reaps the reward by being able to collect the tax,” he said.
(19) Evidence is presented in support of the hypothesis that fresh bat guano serves as a means of pathogenic fungi dissemination in caves.
(20) This postulate is supported by a limited study of the serovars present among the isolates.