Sentence examples for was kindled by a from inspiring English sources

Herschel, whose interest in telescopes was kindled by a modest 5-cm Gregorian, persuaded the king of England to finance the construction of a reflector with a 12-metre (39-foot) focal length and a 120-cm mirror.

My own passion for photography and for cameras was kindled by a summer job, at 13, in a midtown Manhattan camera store run by Hungarian Jewish émigrés.

The seminal moment in Mr. Shonibare's artistic formation, however, was kindled by an encounter at Byam Shaw during a period when he was "making art about Perestroika".

And in northwest Colorado, powerful sentiments have been kindled by a proposed 280,000-acre Vermillion National Monument on grasslands long used for grazing.

The teenager's interest in rocketry had been kindled by a Hanover lecture by the Austrian pioneer Max Valier, who worked with Fritz von Opel on rocket cars and was blown up by a rocket engine in 1930.

I often wonder how many flames have been kindled by a simple Poke, or how many times they've been used as a signal of peace between feuding friends who haven't spoken in years (I'm a sucker for that sort of thing).

Her love of the classics had been kindled by an early success as Gwendolyn, in The Importance Of Being Earnest, and continued throughout her career to include a notable Mme Ranevskaya, in The Cherry Orchard, as well as appearances in Ghosts and Shaw's Man And Superman and Major Barbara.

His fascination with flight was kindled by the landing of a JN-4 "Jenny" biplane across the road from the family home, his son Craig said.

His interest in flying was kindled by his cousin Hermann Hackbusch, a pilot during World War I, who often took Müncheberg to the Berlin-Staaken airfield for sightseeing flights.

His love for them was kindled by his father, who had always been a fan, and by his own talent at the sport.

The development of Jessie was kindled by Lasseter's wife, Nancy, who pressed him to include a strong female character in the sequel, one with more substance than Bo Peep.