Sentence examples for before encouraging from inspiring English sources

She had been down this road with him before, encouraging him to write songs for movies he directed like "The Twelve Chairs".

AIDS organizations offer training classes before encouraging patients to begin the process.

And even those who shudder at the excesses of the regulatory state might hesitate before encouraging courts to dismantle it.

But Ms. Ensler has faced long odds before, encouraging rape victims in Afghanistan, Bosnia and other war zones to speak out and become leaders.

They eventually made it to the Romanian capital, Bucharest, where her young mother taught her some rudimentary ballet exercises before encouraging lessons with a local teacher.

Her mother was a teacher and her father owned an ice factory; he took to drink and left the family, but not before encouraging his daughter's artistic temperament.

Television fans have been made fools of before, encouraged to delve deeply into a show's details — to express, in effect, a kind of faith — only to find out, as with "The X-Files" and "Lost," that we may have spent more time worrying about an ending than the creators themselves did.

I ask her questions about what she did in school the day before, encourage her to participate in class and ask lots of questions.

One of a large Glaswegian working-class family, Brady spent five years in the Merchant Navy, before, encouraged by his sister, deciding to become an actor.

It was only on the last day, when we had (over a drink the night before) encouraged him to forget the no-balls, and bowl as fast and straight as he could, and when he had bowled a few overs uphill, that he asked to change ends.

It was followed by "punitive" boxing that saw recruits battered and knocked down by trained fighters – before being encouraged to get up and fight again.