Sentence examples for encourage a generation of from inspiring English sources

The friendship between the dancers endured through the years, and their legacy has been to encourage a generation of young girls to take up dancing.

Do you think that Armstrong's unprecedented success will encourage a generation of children toward competitive cycling, in the way that Pelé, or Michael Jordan, or other great athletes have inspired kids in their sports?

The book, "The Secret of Three Butterpillars" (Workman), may encourage a generation of engineers more than readers; finding the bugs might be a good training tool for intelligence officers who have to analyze aerial photos.

The tiny amount of federal money ($45,000) for the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nev., helps encourage a generation of young people to become interested in and take responsibility for the legacy of the unique art, music, stories and culture of the American West.

But it's the role of fathers in encouraging a generation of daughters that has been widely overlooked.

Though he was not an especially exciting pedagogue, he encouraged a generation of young men to turn to chemistry.

Among his 12 books were "Man and Dolphin" and "The Mind of the Dolphin," which encouraged a generation of scientists to study marine mammals and helped arouse public fascination with dolphins, whose brains are 40percentt larger than those of humans.

"Cosmos," the 1980 documentary mini-series that encouraged a generation of viewers to contemplate the origins of the universe and their place in it, and made an unlikely television personality out of the astronomer Carl Sagan, is poised to return to terrestrial airwaves.

The result is a quiet triumph for all of those involved, sure to encourage a new generation of artists.

Indeed the founder of the Independent newspaper, Andreas Whittam Smith, is so concerned that he has established a movement entitled "Democracy 2015", which aims to encourage a new generation of non-professional politicians from a variety of backgrounds to run as independent candidates at the next general election.

The non-profit art group states on its website that it aims "to bring important international modern and contemporary art to Moscow, to raise the profile of Russian contemporary culture internationally and encourage a new generation of Russian artists".