Sentences with phrase «encouraged by his ambition»

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Our goal is to build strong children by enhancing their self - esteem, sparking ambition for achievement, encouraging excellence, promoting life - long learning and by broadening their knowledge of the world around them.

Their teenage son, Chris (Travis Tope), is so addicted to graphic Internet porn that he finds it impossible to have «normal» sex with Hannah (Olivia Crocicchia), whose mother (Judy Greer) encourages her acting ambitions by maintaining a borderline - pervy website on which Hannah models underwear and lingerie.

We do see Refn encouraging Gosling's directing ambitions by entrusting him with second - unit duties, but he's maybe not the best mentor, judging by his aptly titled «Lost River.»

It is encouraging to see so many young people setting their ambitions high, as we know science is valued by employers and is linked to higher earnings.

This fits into the ambitions of the TreadRight Foundation, a not - for - profit foundation established by The Travel Corporation to encourage sustainable tourism.

The Park's visual arts programming presents emerging, mid-career and internationally renowned artists by offering an open platform for public art and encouraging unfettered ambition in scale and subject matter.

One of the most important and ambitious schemes ever launched by the Art Fund, the initiative allocated # 1 million each to five successful partnerships between UK museums and contemporary art organisations, to fund the creation of collections of international contemporary art over a period of five years, thus encouraging a radical change in the scale and ambition of contemporary art collecting in the UK.

His ambition was to become a landscape painter and he was encouraged by a local collector, Thomas Harvey, who allowed him access to his large collection of British and Dutch paintings.

The Whitney show emphasizes this ambition, featuring only eight LED pieces surrounded by lots of empty space, encouraging us to appreciate their increased visual complexity.

On the margins of the negotiations, numerous actions provide encouraging signals, including new pledges by countries, significant policy activity to meet the pledges and increased support for additional complementary initiatives to raise the ambition level.

Companies are achieving this by proactively engaging with policy makers to encourage increased policy ambition.

I hope that by offering some advice and career inspiration to these black students, as people who have forged our own successful careers in law, we can encourage them to pursue their ambitions and begin to achieve a more representative balance in the future makeup of our industry».

There has been a lot of buzz lately about women in the workplace, caused to a large degree by Sheryl Sandberg's recent book Lean In, which encourages women to «lean in» to their ambitions and to speak up so their voices are heard.