Sentence examples for inspired to hear from inspiring English sources

"I was inspired to hear him say that we need an agile country that is ready to embrace new technologies," Holmes said.

Jones was inspired to hear Gilbert describe how his work used computer science for social impact, including by creating culturally relevant education technologies and designing a universally accessible voting machine.

But that experience showed me how to get volunteers inspired, how to hear all the different points of view and how to pull something together and get it done in a relatively short period of time.

Some said they were inspired to donate after hearing the comedian Tim Minchin perform a song on Network Ten's The Project on Tuesday night in which he criticised Pell for not coming to Australia to give evidence and called him a "coward" and a "pompous buffoon".

At a recent candidate forum, Wilson said she was inspired to run after hearing Smith say Trump was the best place to get the "unvarnished truth".

"Lady Day," which Robertson was inspired to write after hearing about a performance Holiday gave a few months before her death in 1959, had its off-Broadway premiere in 1986 and has been kicking around the national scene (including a few visits to Southern California) ever since.

Mr. Gershe was inspired to write "Butterflies" after hearing a news report about Harold Eliot Krents, a young man from Scarsdale who was determined to succeed despite his blindness and who went on to get a law degree from Harvard.

Musically the version of the song released in 1994 is pretty much the same as that which Noel wrote three years earlier, having in part been inspired to do so after hearing the Rolling Stones' Shine a Light.

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He was inspired to write this opera after hearing Mr. Picker's "Emmeline".

Julie Mayhew, who was inspired to write the play after hearing from friends about elderly neighbours of theirs who hoarded, cannot bring herself to give away a pair of socks she wore when she gave birth.