(v. t.) To incite by words or advice; to animate or urge by arguments, as to a good deed or laudable conduct; to address exhortation to; to urge strongly; hence, to advise, warn, or caution.
(v. i.) To deliver exhortation; to use words or arguments to incite to good deeds.
(n.) Exhortation.
Example Sentences:
(1) The exhortations, quite direct exhortations, were coming from an Australian who is apparently quite senior in Isil [Islamic State] to networks of support back in Australia to conduct demonstration killings here in this country.” Azari is being held in solitary confinement at the state’s super maximum security prison in Goulburn.
(2) Analysis of the videotapes revealed that the coaches (n = 11) at the bantam level often exhort their players to put more intensity in their physical contacts (legal body checking), but they more often encouraged them to control themselves and avoid penalties.
(3) At the end of the corridor is a presentation room, the walls bedaubed with exhortations to “Never, Never, Never Give Up”; up another staircase is a run of seminar rooms, in one of which a class of fledgling baristas are learning their trade.
(4) This cannot be done by throwing a traditionally trained doctor into such a setting and exhorting him to lead.
(5) This fact, the limited applicability of the information obtained from animal experiments, and the further fact that even test results obtained in human subjects cannot be applied on a world-wide basis, exhort us to take care not to subscribe to an all-too apodictic classification of therapeutic measures into effective and noneffective.
(6) When Johnson or Congressman Earl Blumenauer – who is pushing for extension and reform of the Siv programs – talk about the situation, their articulate exhortations carry undertones of angst.
(7) He exhorts him instead to "rage, rage against the dying of the light".
(8) These people stand at the edges of our avenues, of our streets, in deafening anonymity.” The passionate exhortation came hours after he addressed the United Nations , prayed at Ground Zero, visited a school in Harlem and cruised through Central Park, where 80,000 people greeted the 78-year-old Argentinean with rapture.
(9) The doctor, however, is charged against all exhortations of social Darwinism by society to help his patient to the best of his knowledge and skill.
(10) Shafik is clearly frustrated that years of exhortations against bank misbehaviour have yet to trigger genuine cultural change.
(11) They were on their feet between nearly every point, screaming with such manic intensity it was impossible to make out a word of their exhortations.
(12) Oh soldiers of the Islamic State , continue to harvest the [enemy] soldiers,” the recording exhorted in a key passage.
(13) Hence in casting their votes and electing members for the parliament, we urge and exhort them not to support pseudo-political leaders who betray our Tamil cause for liberation but to support candidates or parties who are loyal to the fundamental aspirations of all the Tamils within and outside of Sri Lanka."
(14) The Ukip leader, tongue firmly lodged in cheek, has recorded a “party political broadcast” on behalf of Paddy Power , exhorting punters to get behind Team Europe in this weekend’s Ryder Cup golf contest against the US.
(15) The tablet, inscribed with an exhortation to honor King Tukulti-Ninurta I, was excavated a century ago by German archaeologists from the Ishtar Temple in what's now northern Iraq.
(16) But we cannot wait for exhortations from an intergovernmental meeting before making the right choices concerning our £800m investment portfolio.
(17) Modern life is awash with tips on how to live well, exhorting us to practice gratitude, discover meaning and ponder our legacy.
(18) To soberly face our situation and begin the hard, slow-burning, patient work of reconstruction, or continue to rally to sloganistic exhortations, thinking that each new protest or strike might radically shift the balance in our favour?
(19) Five Leaves Left is one of those albums that seem tied to exhorting and then playing on a particular mood in the listener – like Astral Weeks and Forever Changes certainly and arguably stationed on that particular echelon of creativity (though I wouldn’t personally like to enter into that particular argument).
(20) It said it would look in particular at "whether these games include 'direct exhortations' to children – a strong encouragement to make a purchase, or to do something that will necessitate making a purchase, or to persuade their parents or other adults to make a purchase for them".
Invite
Definition:
(v. t.) To ask; to request; to bid; to summon; to ask to do some act, or go to some place; esp., to ask to an entertainment or visit; to request the company of; as, to invite to dinner, or a wedding, or an excursion.
(v. t.) To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract.
(v. t.) To give occasion for; as, to invite criticism.
(v. i.) To give invitation.
Example Sentences:
(1) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
(2) That is why you will be held relentlessly to account for those choices; why what you said in February invites forensic scrutiny.
(3) Among the guests invited to witness the flypast were six second world war RAF pilots, dubbed the “few” by the wartime prime minister, Winston Churchill.
(4) All children enrolled in grade 2 were invited to join the study.
(5) The wives and girlfriends who were originally invited to accompany their playing partners on the World Cup tour have had their invitations formally rescinded.
(6) They plan to continue the hour-long demonstrations daily, potentially inviting arrest under laws introduced last year that allowed some protests to be criminalised.
(7) In response to the Advisory Committee on training in Nursing recommendations EONS in association with Marie Curie Memorial Foundation organized a workshop, where representatives of the 12 member states of the EEC, actively involved in cancer nursing education, were invited to prepare a core curriculum in cancer nursing education.
(8) Questionnaires were sent to 305 patients who during a three and a half year period had been invited to participate.
(9) Maryam Namazie, an Iranian-born campaigner against religious laws, had been invited to speak to the Warwick Atheists, Secularists and Humanists Society next month.
(10) And when they do that in high dudgeon, they invite iconoclasm – something fashion has proved adept at for just as long.
(11) "It is also very surprising that the government is advising families with disabled children, and children suffering trauma following serious abuse, to invite a stranger into their home."
(12) They also made it clear that they would seek to use the award to bring their two countries closer together and said they would invite their prime ministers, Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan and Narendra Modi of India, to the award ceremony in Oslo in December.
(13) They begin when authorities invite us to exclude neighbors from the community by associating them with a global threat.
(14) They invite the viewer to get off on the same things the killer is getting off on.
(15) We all do different things.” She was front and centre at Ashley’s side in footage shot last week by Sky News cameramen, who were also part of the “selected media” entourage invited to Shirebrook to launch the group’s charm offensive.
(16) In the Commons on Monday , John Whittingdale, the culture secretary who only in February chaired the committee that concluded “No future licence fee negotiations must be conducted in the way of the 2010 settlement”, ducked the invitation to explain how exactly the same thing had just happened again.
(17) Collier usually attends in his place, but Guardian Australia has been told he was not invited to next month’s meeting, in the hope that omitting him might encourage Barnett to board a plane.
(18) Angela Merkel says she's very pleased to accept the invitation to Davos, at a time when global economic growth is modest.
(19) The fiery energy she radiated on stage and her motormouth, ragga-influenced raps brought her to the attention of So Solid Crew, who invited her to collaborate.
(20) Tales invites you to be straight or gay or a bit of both, or even a 93-year-old transsexual.