But she said she was emboldened to step forward by the sexual harassment lawsuit that the former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson brought against Mr. Ailes this month, and a subsequent investigation that has brought to light at least 10 other claims of improper behavior involving him.
"There was so much trepidation around it," she said, but she felt emboldened, particularly because the position was in development.
When Julia realized not just intellectually, but emotionally, that she did love her mother but resented her behavior, she felt emboldened to stand up to her mother in a way in which she had been unable to in the past.
Although she makes no pretence at having produced the final word on Pushkin, she was emboldened to tackle his life because of the recent publication of newly discovered letters between Georges d'Anthès, the officer who killed Pushkin in a duel, and his putative adoptive father Baron van Heeckeren.
She said that collaborating with a writer who had experience in mainstream comedies, she felt emboldened to crank up the wry, observational humor of her earlier films and go for bigger laughs.
Hiroko said, however, that she was emboldened by the response the couple had received from friends, family and social media, and that she hoped that her wedding helped create a public discussion.
She was emboldened by Samantha's "motherly vibe".
Like many others, she was emboldened by Carlson's example.
But maybe the reason that she feels emboldened to say so is connected with our changing attitudes towards fictional characters.
She sabotaged Mr Singh's trip to Bangladesh in September over a river-sharing deal; in November she threatened to topple the government over a small petrol-price rise.But in opposing retail reform she was emboldened by others.
