It grows and is nurtured.

Forests arose and nurtured things with wings.

And it is a process that can be energized and nurtured.

Shallow seas nurtured life early on, and that's where it morphed into more complex forms.

Nonetheless, the mindset nurtured by The Limits to Growth continues to shape popular and elite thinking.

The upcoming election has both nurtured hope and generated anxiety among Pakistanis. It could go either way.

Then our sons will be like well nurtured plants, our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.

Then our sons will be like well nurtured plants, our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.

However, some stressed that, in order to succeed, community based action needed to be supported and nurtured by appropriate government policies.

and be humble and tender to them and say Lord, show mercy to them as they nurtured me when I was small.

and be humble and tender to them and say Lord, show mercy to them as they nurtured me when I was small.

I am an example of what's possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by the people around them.

The United States has laboured for over 50 years to help us instil principles of democracy in our leadership and in our children and has nurtured our young institutions.

The volunteer who carries out the task of torture is less liable than the high ranking civil servant who justified and nurtured it. And the latter is less liable than the political decision maker who asked for it.

Those rules and structures have delivered unprecedented economic growth, benefiting all (though the US has reaped the greatest rewards). But, ironically, the notion of American exceptionalism often has led the US to undermine the international system that it nurtured.

It is vital that the ideas that are nurtured in TED, that the ideas that we think about look forward, and make sure that this will be the most glorious century, and not one of eco disaster and eco collapse.

Russian reform will be impeded, not nurtured, by turning a blind eye to political and economic aggression. The hard fought independence of the former Soviet republics must not be tacitly traded away in acquiescence to Russia s desire for regional hegemony.

In a nutshell, unless competitive production facilities are built up, unless supply side capacities are created, unless domestic entrepreneurship is nurtured and linked to international investment and technology flows, developing countries will be unable to reduce poverty in a sustainable manner.

Believing that if children were properly nurtured they would contribute to development, the Government had put in place a number of child specific policies, covering such issues as early childhood development, orphans and other vulnerable children, gender and HIV AIDS.

For example, there are the constant reminders that external powers most notably, the United Kingdom and France established the existing borders. Resistance against the so called Sykes Picot order nurtured the founding myths of many states and political movements in the region.

A history of at least 2,000 years, a history of conquest, occupation, absorption, assimilation and so on, led to the process by which, over time, this notion of the Han emerged of course, nurtured by a growing and very powerful sense of cultural identity.

The pervasive soul searching prompted by such questions has nurtured a growing recognition that capitalism s success depends not only on macroeconomic policy or economic indicators. It rests on a bedrock of good governance and the rule of law in other words, a well performing state.

In developing countries and transition economies, it is the local firms small and medium enterprises (SMEs) which are responsible for most economic activity. On the one hand, there are modern SMEs in the developing countries that need to be nurtured into efficient and competitive enterprises.

This positive spirit can be nurtured by Russia s government, which usually has cordial relations with the Vatican. Indeed, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has many projects for which he thinks the Vatican can be of help, particularly in advancing the cause of reconciliation and creating a partnership between civilizations.

The process of gaining independence from Spanish imperialism was transformed from a class struggle to a national one by the action taken in 1816 by the elite civilian and military liberators, who were nurtured by the first anti colonial rebellion in the Caribbean the Haitian Revolution of 1804.

Putin may not have ordered the hit on Nemtsov or any of the others. But, like Stalin, he has nurtured a climate of fear and lawlessness, in which those who rally behind the Kremlin feel a duty to eliminate the leader's opponents however they can, and in anticipation of his will.

They have also nurtured industries in line with their comparative advantage, which has helped them weather the storm. Indeed, comparative advantage determined by the relative abundance of labor, natural resources, and capital endowments is the foundation for competitiveness, which in turn underpins dynamic growth and strong fiscal and external positions.

Despite civil wars, malnutrition, and the anguish of the AIDS epidemic, something remarkable is happening in black Africa the stealthy rise of a high technology sector. If not quite representing an African Silicon Valley, these shoots of high tech industry nonetheless can and must be nurtured if Africa is to thrive.

ISIS s army of psychopaths and adventurers was launched as a startup by Sunni magnates in the Gulf who envied Iran s success with its Lebanese Shia proxy, Hezbollah. It was the combination of an idea and the money to propagate it that created this monster and nurtured its ambition to forge a totalitarian caliphate.

PARIS Will the year 2009 and the beginning of Barack Obama s presidency mark the beginning of a new era in transatlantic relations, or will the old divisions linger, nurtured by the depth and gravity of the economic crisis? Will the crisis lead to nationalistic and selfish attitudes on both sides of the Atlantic, stymieing the long awaited rapprochement, if not a full reconciliation?

Japan s powerful bureaucrats, nostalgic for the 1960 s model of development, whereby government and its business cronies nurtured the Japanese miracle, strongly opposed this bold, free market solution. But their model is obsolete, because Japan now competes directly with many other Asian and non Asian countries, where work habits are of the type that used to prevail among the Japanese.

We need to assert what philosophers and religious teachers have at all times asserted that there is something called the good life, apart from survival, and our understanding of it has to be taught, just as Mill s father taught him the elements of Aristotle s Posterior Analytics. Our nature may predispose us to learn but what we learn depends on how we are nurtured.

Georgia and Moldova have both been partitioned through the creation of criminal mini states nurtured by the Kremlin and which remain under its military umbrella. Indeed, in the very week that Putin was meddling in Ukraine s presidential election, he was threatening to blockade one of those statelets, Georgia s Abkhazia region, after it had the temerity to vote for a president the Kremlin did not like.

NEW HAVEN Until now, and with few exceptions, the West has nurtured two distinct communities of foreign policy specialists the development community and the democratic community. More often than not, they have had little or no connection with one another development specialists dealt comfortably with dictatorships and democracies alike, believing that prosperity can best be created by concentrating exclusively on economic issues and institutions.

It is understandable that the collapse of the country, and of the spirit that nurtured Russian intellectuals regardless of their political beliefs for generations, is unbearable for Tereshkova and people like her. But Tereshkova s dream about travel to Mars is not just suicidal nostalgia for a time when she was young and surrounded by people who were ready to sacrifice their lives for a greater cause.

That is why Europe s leaders should take advantage of the coming political cycle to correct Europe s institutional design and strengthen its democratic legitimacy, thereby enabling them to respond to Euro skepticism and ad hoc bilateral deals with more integration. If Europeans are to overcome their fear of giving up sovereignty in order to achieve political union, a civic sense of attachment to Europe and its institutions must be regained and nurtured.