1.   As Ellen pulls away from Claude, Claude gravitates toward a gay musician, who encourages her ambitions.

2.   A native of Spring Hope, N.C., Yeargin, who had white as well as black ancestry, grew up in Raleigh in an atmosphere that encouraged ambition.

3.   But she admitted that the key is to encourage their ambition.

4.   His mother encouraged his ambition, allowing him to drop out of high school.

5.   There she met the sculptor Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, one of the first artists to use black and African subjects positively, who encouraged her ambitions.

6.   Together, they encouraged his ambition to become an artist.

7.   His parents, who always encouraged his ambitions, ran restaurant businesses in Japan.