Sentence examples for first encouraged to from inspiring English sources

Fritz Krenn, the Austrian bass who plays Baron Ochs, was first encouraged to sing the role by Strauss himself.

Many in Venda were first encouraged to make art by a sculptor named David Rossouw, whom I was to meet in Johannesburg.

Thompson told me he was first encouraged to run for office by Republican friends who felt out of sync with a party morphing into an "insanely right caricature".

It was at the Rep that I was first encouraged to watch and read plays, where I started to devour García Lorca (who I was sure was Punjabi) and fell head over heels for Sean O'Casey.

Even though he has spent much of his life as a Republican, Mr. Jones, now an independent, was first encouraged to run for office years ago by the liberal Mr. Chilton, he said.

Lea was first encouraged to explore her femininity by her friend, designer and Givenchy creative director Riccardo Tisci, then a graduate of Central Saint Martins: "One night he encouraged me to wear pumps to a party.

It was those friends who first encouraged him to talk to reporters and producers about the Starr investigation, Mr. Berenson said.

It was, as so often, an inspirational teacher who first encouraged her to commit that storytelling impulse to the page.

Her work came to the attention of Joseph Brodsky, who first encouraged her to leave the Soviet Union.

Ms. Suplicy has been married since 1964 to Eduardo Matarazzo Suplicy, a federal senator and the one who first encouraged her to enter politics.

It was a cousin who first encouraged Sendak to look beyond his narrow life in Brooklyn.