Sentence examples for was first encouraged from inspiring English sources

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

Calipari, who was first encouraged by Indiana Coach Tom Crean to become active on Twitter, says social networking helps him connect with Kentucky fans, who are famously rabid.

When he offered to manufacture the De Havilland Mosquito in India, he was first encouraged and then instructed to make gliders instead.

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.

Another theory suggested that the members of the younger set who were first encouraged to read by the immensely popular Harry Potter books tended to prefer hardcover over any other edition, snapping up the books on the day of their release.

When fathers were first encouraged on to labour wards in London in the 1960s, it was by an obstetrician appalled by the isolation that most women in labour suffered.

Mr. White was our physical education teacher, and that's when he first encouraged us to run cross-country.

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

But on the other hand, my mother was the one who first encouraged me to go abroad.

It was Vinicius' father who first encouraged him to take a hairdressing course a while ago.

It was Vinicius's father who first encouraged him to take a hairdressing course.