6 sentences with 'cultivating'
Example sentences and phrases with the word cultivating and other words derived from it.
• « Assyrian monarchs did not fall short of cultivating vineyards and nurturing wine cellars; in turn, Phoenician ships spread vines and wines throughout the Mediterranean basin. »
• « From the end of the Roman Empire in 476 until well into the 18th century, the art of cultivating the body for health and sporting purposes was practically neglected. It was to be almost two centuries before gymnastics became a compulsory subject in almost every school in the world. »
• « Israel's crushing victory in the 1967 Six Day War proved to American policymakers that it was a power worth cultivating, and in the decades following the government's assumption of power American-Israeli relations were that Israel was the most reliable and powerful partner supporting American interests. Part of that sympathy was also born out of respect for the fact that Israel's government is democratic and has a thriving civil society. »
• « According to some researchers, the invention of clay working would not have been isolated, but part of a more general 'revolution' in human change: along with improved techniques for working stone, there would have been a shift from nomadic to sedentary life, from an economy based on hunting and gathering, to cultivating the land and raising livestock. »
• « Seeing the value of this source of labour in cultivating the profitable sugar crop on their Atlantic islands, the Portuguese soon began exporting African slaves along with African ivory and gold. »