Encouraged by a second-grade teacher who told her that if she put her nose to the stone, she could one day make it to the National Spelling Bee, Amy began studying more systematically.
In fact, though Yahoo wound up purchasing ViaWeb for $49 million in stock in 1998, it was after being encouraged by a third party to kick the tires a second time.
In a match featuring three declarations, and one which had lost its first-class status because of India's wish to utilise all of their touring squad, MS Dhoni's side will have been encouraged by a better second-innings bowling display from seamer Ishant Sharma, who had struggled with no-balls in last week's draw at Leicester and on the first day at Derby.
Federal officials said they were encouraged by a slight increase in eighth-grade scores since the last history test, in 2006.
It was in nearby Gdansk that brave shipbuilders (encouraged by a forward-thinking Pope) first stood up to their communist occupiers.
There, encouraged by a friend, Collins wrote the first book of her first series for children, "The Underland Chronicles".
Dancers tend to be generous souls and all responded when asked that question, encouraged perhaps by a second query about what they would want others to see in their own performances.
Encouraged by his second popular-vote majority in November and hardened by his confrontations with Republicans over the past two years, he has taken a feistier stance toward his adversaries.
Encouraged by her second husband Neil in 2003, Bradley published the longanticipated Drawing People: How to Portray the Clothed Figure (NorthLight Books).
Encouraged by his second wife, Patti, who made the initial contact by letter, he went to Thailand a few years later to meet Nagase on seeing his compassionate and apologetic reply.
Jay Parikh, Facebook's head of engineering and infrastructure, said in a blog: "We're encouraged by this first successful flight, but we have a lot of work ahead of us … In our next tests, we will fly Aquila faster, higher and longer, eventually taking it above 60,000 feet".
