cultivation

Examples of cultivating

cultivating

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

And where scientific approaches tend to narrow down, insisting on procedural and stylistic conformity, performative ones sprout out, cultivating procedural and stylistic originality.
It also provided a positive alternative to local youth cultures, which young women experienced as dominated by young men cultivating a hard and sexualised masculinity.
By 1961 he had rid himself of his intellectual, bespectacled look, cultivating instead a more friendly look in order to find a wider '^ ' audience.
That is, not through the suppression of their own ethnic and social identities but by consciously cultivating and maintaining ethnic networks and systems.
It meant opting for and cultivating a positivistically orientated scientific ethos, for an emancipation from the ethos of the party soldier.
When would it have been the most useful in cultivating desirable affiliations or quelling potential animosities between groups?
In the hope of cultivating research in this domain, we offer a range of avenues that we see as particularly important targets for future research.
The producers there are described as poor and ageing farmers typically cultivating less than one hectare, who are facing an uncertain future.
The activities that engaged the villagers' attention included keeping productive food-crop farms, organizing fishing expeditions, hunting, and cultivating cocoa farms.
It defeats the basic rebel project of reclaiming their humanity and cultivating political legitimacy.
Rather, it is their workload that prevents them from cultivating larger fields.
The graduate system was discontinued, having been denounced as a system for cultivating revisionist seedlings.
A method for cultivating morphologically undifferentiated embryonic stem cells from porcine blastocysts.
Our great writers sensed the need for enriching and cultivating the language of the people without resorting to the means of scientific philology.
Without cultivating inner detachment, their study would be invaded by cares and worries coming "from within," from their socialized self.
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