Sentence examples for cultivated him from inspiring English sources

Pincher was always looking for information about the Soviets, and eagerly cultivated him.

But Buckley took Limbaugh seriously, cultivated him, promoted him and saw to it that he connected with the right people.

For two years, it cultivated him in hopes that Syria would break the logjam in the Middle East peace process by signing a treaty with Israel.

After Johnson left office, Richard Nixon cultivated him carefully, even sending weekly national-security briefings to his ranch, in Stonewall, Texas, by government aircraft.

Likewise, the Yankees drafted Spencer, cultivated him for an entire decade, but could not find a full-time position for him.

Allardyce felt at ease in the company of the Telegraph's undercover reporters, Syed suggested, because they had cultivated him over a period of time.

Instead, this one is cultivating him.

So I wanted to meet him and cultivate him to be an actor.

He is an instinctive Atlanticist, and though he may not be a natural soulmate of Mr Bush's, he knows that he will not have to cultivate him for long.

But he may find Mr Obama in any case not as obviously Anglophile as most of his recent predecessors less keen to cultivate him than the prime minister hopes, and drawn to other European leaders who seem more active in world affairs.

But it was Zahir who did the eyebrow-raising things: allowing women, in 1959, to discard the veil if they wanted to, letting raunchy Western films into the country, permitting wine production and, from 1963, gently half-easing the cork from that potent brew called democracy.To the exasperation of the Americans who hoped to cultivate him, he never did much more.