But a well-nurtured brain compensates for the loss of velocity by creating new synapses.

If the fertilized eggs and pupae are well-nurtured, they could potentially become queens as well.

A well-nurtured, healthy, educated child today equals a healthy and productive adult tomorrow.

Obvious but edifying techniques include storytelling practice, journaling and building a network of well-nurtured relationships.

It is about helping families to ensure that every child feels secure, is well-loved, well-nurtured, stimulated and happy.

I personally prefer the, well-nurtured and cherished, self-deprecation and black sarcasm of the past 15 years, to that.

But the gardens had long since been eaten up by the goats, which understandably preferred tender, well-nurtured plants to what they could find in the desert.

He observes the well-nurtured upright bodies, the straight backs, the air of dignity and comportment with which they circle, so correctly, in time to the music.

His keen awareness and well-nurtured professional ethos contributed to averting a very hazardous situation, and the likelihood of severe injuries to personnel.

Researchers said "well-nurtured children" naturally developed good social skills but "helping children acquire these skills is likely to be difficult for parents living in deprived circumstances".

He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man.

These well-nurtured monkeys tend to become attentive parents themselves: Their attachment to their mothers provides a model for the relationships they will form much later with their own children.

Failure to provide good conditions for development during this time makes the developing brains of children who did not benefit from these conditions physically different from those children who have been well-nurtured.

He said the region is “rife with historical enmity and chauvinism”, encouraged by Tokyo’s “seeming lack of contrition for wartime atrocities” and China’s own well-nurtured narrative of humiliation by foreigners.

The Huntington, which produces a mix of classic works and new American plays, has for years been a major beneficiary of its well-nurtured ties to the Calderwoods, who became subscribers in the 1980s.

The other, known as “K-selection”, is to have only a few offspring but to nurture them so that they are superb specimens and will thus do well in the competition for resources and mates, and produce more grandchildren for their parents than their less well-nurtured contemporaries.

My well-nurtured ego thought of the outside world as the waiting arena of my actions, where all humanity was expectantly assembled for me, yet when I arrived I found that no one knew my name nor wished to learn it; I was a king without any subjects.