Sentence examples for inspired to undertake from inspiring English sources

In fact, Marcus was inspired to undertake her project in part because of the lack of gender balance in her English literature degree.

Students were inspired to undertake serious practice of the Kagyu system of meditation and study; some became monks or nuns and in 1984 a group commenced the traditional four-year retreat.

According to publicity for the film, which opened on Friday, Mr. Greenwald (who had met Hoffman years ago) was inspired to undertake the project by a conversation with his teenage daughters, who were attracted to the decade's aura of rebellion, as well as its music and fashions, but knew little about it.

Rather, Maitland creates a multifaceted narrative mosaic, in which news accounts local and national converge with rumor, in which a community is suddenly and catastrophically transformed and some of its members are inspired to undertake colossal acts of daring and heroism of the sort that daily life rarely elicits and even more rarely records.

These were inspired to undertake violent acts by militant exhortations and coverage of the Iraq and Israeli-Palestinian conflicts, but lacked the ability to make contact with the broader al Qaeda network or each other.

Heather Mattila, a postdoctoral fellow in ecology at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, was inspired to undertake the research after her adviser, Thomas Seeley, discovered that genetically diverse hives better resisted a common bacterial disease.

For him, the interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan were inspired by the missionary urge to undertake democracy-building, not the cold pursuit of American interests, which pursuit Scheuer, seemingly deaf to its historical echoes, calls in one of his concluding chapters "America First".

The project's success has inspired Almond to undertake more activism now that he has moved out of the house – to which, still, nothing has been done.

Despite the sometimes-justified criticism, the efforts of the RRP project were regarded with respect, and indeed they inspired others to undertake similar projects.

He served as a corpsman with Patton's Third Army, where he received basic medical training that inspired him to undertake a medical career and to specialize in orthopedics.

The water invasion came as she was already thinking about the Hispanic Society installation, she said, and it inspired her to undertake some vaguely masochistic experiments in which she submerged books in water.