In other words, if storms caused by careerism in the curia threatened to sink the papal ship, it was partly because Benedict himself had been too zealous in stilling the nurturing waters of theological debate.
This suggests potential, not determinism; a seed needs to be planted in good soil, nurtured, watered and tended.
Year after year, she or he persistently, faithfully nurtures, waters, cultivates, perhaps fertilizes -- does what she or he can to maintain a healthy environment for the tree to grow.
Since the dawn of thought, it seems, they've been at once nurturing, water-providing, subtly evolving forms of endless entertainment and fixation across the world; divine sources of inspiration, reflecting light, and characterizing our atmosphere with unique and transient beauty. .
Another group of splendid mosaics resides near the western entrance to the city in the ruins of the Nile House, so named after the large mosaic of the annual celebrations held in Egypt when the Nile overflowed with its nurturing waters.
"You nurture something, water it, deal with all its problems, and right when it's perfect and ready for picking, someone in a truck with no overhead comes along and takes it," Mr. Price said.
It is much easier to nurture and water your garden regularly rather than trying to revive it once it has already withered away!
Nurtured by Waters and her followers for forty years, that idea's moment has come.
Nurturing a breakthrough water treatment technology, from concept to commercialization in a very conservative industry, guarded by multiple levels of gatekeepers, is like running a marathon it hurts getting to the finish line, but the journey's worth it.
On the other way of conceiving ethical development, the four beginnings are more like barley sprouts that need nurture analogous to sun, water, and fertile soil (6A7).
