tending

Hirth states, that tending does not last more than a day.

By tending to her inner and outer worlds one step at a time, as she is led in this bio-spiritual transition, she embraces Life anew.

In Global Woman: Nannies, Maids and Sex Workers in the New Economy (Metropolitan, 2002) Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild report that more and more of the nannies, housekeepers, and caregivers tending to our homes, children, and elders are underpaid and unprotected women of color from the other side of the tracks or the global village.

Clutton-Brock observes that relatives and unrelated adults work equally hard tending a pup, so he looks for more than kinship to explain cooperative breeding.

They also have a refined visual texture that's at the same time silky and grained, their soft grays tending on inspection to decompose into a fine particulate mist.

On the more positive side, anecdotal impressions from several cities suggested that prices and lease terms of office and other commercial structures were tending to stabilize, though the volume of actual transactions remained quite limited.

When researchers removed the ants tending to it, the growth of the fungus garden slowed.

If Burton partakes of Signac's goals, he has abandoned the latter's use of the figure (as if to suggest that no individual has privileged access to cosmic mystery), and his gestures are more fluid and fast, tending to integrate with the geometry, each adumbrating and informing and begetting the next.

The access of lending institutions to the capital markets had improved, and there were increasing indications, not yet reflected in the loan data, that banks were seeking lending opportunities more actively in many parts of the country and that loan demand from small and medium-size businesses was tending to revive.

To test this idea, Starks established colonies of labeled wasps in a greenhouse and noted which captive wasps were tending nests and which were unaffiliated.