Sentence examples for failed to nurture from inspiring English sources

This was the year cinema sparkled but failed to nurture.

One by one, he has tried, and failed, to nurture alternative successors on the Gaullist right.

He has failed to nurture a new generation of opposition leaders.

Biotechnology is one example of an industry that New York has failed to nurture.

Shamir had neglected social policy and failed to nurture Likud's Sephardi (oriental Jewish) supporters.

The company failed to nurture its nascent division and the venture stumbled badly.

She knows how even the strangest lives follow simple patterns — we are born, we grow up, we nurture or fail to nurture children, we do our work or fail to do it, we die.

And the real danger is that, through the fear of alienating an old audience, you fail to nurture a new one.

Lord Heseltine's story in particular should haunt London's mayor: an outspoken Tory with wild blond hair and popular support beyond party strongholds fails to nurture a constituency in the parliamentary party, becomes resented for his disloyalty to the leadership and loses out to more palatable (and canny) contenders.Today's Conservative Party has no shortage of such figures.

If they live only in the world of the present, and fail to nurture themselves on the literature of the past, there is an acute sense of loss too: their work remains superficial, rootless, good for a single historical moment only.When Derek Walcott was growing up on the tiny island of St Lucia in the Caribbean during the 1930s, his imagination was pulled in two directions.

He goes on: "We ought to be more than ever alert to the fact that our self-awareness is shaped by the inseparable awareness of other subjects, that projection into the life of the other is there from the start, that how others speak to us, imagine us, nurture or fail to nurture us, is not an 'extra' to our sense of who or what we are but completely woven into the very idea of being a 'self'self