Sentences with phrase «hear inspiring lectures»

Starting in 1999, after his presidency, Herzog increased his active support for the meetings that invite many Nobel Laureates and hundreds of young scientists to Lake Constance each year, to exchange knowledge, ideas, and experience, to hear inspiring lectures and take part in lively discussions.

In the last year I heard an inspiring lecture by an orthopaedic surgeon who had worked at hospitals in tropical Africa.

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Tomonaga was inspired to study physics by hearing Albert Einstein lecture in Kyoto in 1922, as well as by reading popular science books written in Japanese.

I have heard him lecture, and always walk away feeling inspired.»

In Cincinnati to give a lecture inspired by one of his books, the lonely Stone quickly seeks out female companionship, first from a jilted ex-girlfriend, then from a frumpy fan, Lisa (Jennifer Jason Leigh), in town to hear him speak.

Inspired by a lecture from Albert Shanker, the longtime president of the American Federation of Teachers (whom Reichgott Junge heard describe charter schools as «the best answer so far» to the ills of the American education system) she worked with civic leaders and fellow representatives to draft and implement a bill granting greater autonomy for a subset of the North Star state's schools.