Sentence examples for stimulating an interest from inspiring English sources

But I find helping our small organization make the best use of its funding dollars, and stimulating an interest in spinal cord research within scientific circles, PVA, and the public, a challenging and rewarding experience.

It would not be surprising to most faculty members that, rather than stimulating an interest in learning, grades primarily enhance students' motivation to avoid receiving bad grades (Butler and Nisan, 1986; Butler, 1988; Crooks, 1988; Pulfrey et al., 2011).

The purpose has since changed to focus on citizenship, leadership, physical fitness, general aviation and stimulating an interest in the activities of the Canadian Forces.

The revival of interest in Gothic art stimulated an interest in both the technique and history of medieval glass painting.

Military life, however, stimulated an interest in geopolitics and history which got him a teaching job at the War Academy and inspired him to pen a few undistinguished books.

The art world's fascination with artists who functioned outside traditional gallery channels stimulated an interest in this form of self-expression.

The Romantic movement at the beginning of the 19th century had stimulated an interest in historical plays, which in turn gave rise to an almost obsessive preoccupation with authentic settings and costumes.

Critics dismissed Hamilton's effort to combine the Scottish "philosophy of common sense" with views held by Immanuel Kant, but he successfully stimulated an interest in metaphysics and introduced Kant to the British public.

As a graduate student in film at the City University of New York a decade ago he prowled Manhattan's bookstores, where he found Janet Malcolm's "Reading Chekhov," which stimulated an interest in Russian culture and politics that led him to "A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924" by Orlando Figes.

It would offer special facilities for pupils from across the city, ranging from sessions to stimulate an interest in the subjects to help for youngsters interested in going on to study them at college and university.

Although originated for stylistic and literary purposes, the identification of regular patterns in the figurative use of words initiated by classical rhetoric provided a first organized framework to investigate the semantic flexibility of words, and stimulated an interest in our ability to use lexical expressions beyond the boundaries of their literal meaning.