Sentence examples for nurturing pet from inspiring English sources

He has been known to function as a hands-on mogul in the state-run film industry, rewriting scripts and nurturing pet projects.

The gender stereotype-bashing account shows that boys can have a wide spectrum of interests -- from playing with action figures and roughhousing to gently holding hands, playing with dolls and nurturing pets and little siblings.

An older adult's basic human need for security, affection and sensory contact can be met by holding, stroking or nurturing a pet.

He nurtured the pet during the following school year, and Colby thrived in his office.

The site (www.neopets.com), which MTV bought a year ago for $160 million, lets users adopt, feed and nurture their pets and do battle with cartoonish creatures including the catlike Aisha and the dragonlike Scorchio.

The pie contained no animals, thus we were not required to watch the animals being born and then nurtured as pets by Simon's kids over several weeks and then herded up for the big pie-plate in the sky while Simon said: "Oh stop snivelling kiddies we'll eat Blossom nose to tail and be REALLY RESPECTFUL".

Breaking from Brown's micro-management and obsession with detail, Cameron preferred to give his cabinet ministers their head, allowing them to nurture their own pet ideological projects.

As we speed toward the day when mutual funds will outnumber people, is it too much to ask for a fund or two that cares about my needs and nurtures my own pet peeves?

If I were the sort of amateur scholar who nurtured a crankish pet theory about Shakespeare and I'm not, I promise mine would have to do with hidden references in "Henry V" to the relationship between Catherine of Valois and Owen Tudor, whom she took up with after Henry's death.

Lots of people buy one before they realize that they simply do not have enough time to care and nurture for their new pet.

Armstrong has nurtured the site as a pet project since launching it in 2007 while he was still at Google.