(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".
Urge
Definition:
(v. t.) To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.
(v. t.) To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.
(v. t.) To provoke; to exasperate.
(v. t.) To press hard upon; to follow closely
(v. t.) To present in an urgent manner; to press upon attention; to insist upon; as, to urge an argument; to urge the necessity of a case.
(v. t.) To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with; as, to urge an ore with intense heat.
(v. i.) To press onward or forward.
(v. i.) To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.
Example Sentences:
(1) Power urges the security council to "take the kind of credible, binding action warranted."
(2) The International Monetary Fund, which has long urged Nigeria to remove the subsidy, supports the move.
(3) David Cameron has insisted that membership of the European Union is in Britain's national interest and vital for "millions of jobs and millions of families", as he urged his own backbenchers not to back calls for a referendum on the UK's relationship with Brussels.
(4) King Salman of Saudi Arabia urged the redoubling of efforts to “eradicate this dangerous scourge and rid the world of its evils”.
(5) Meanwhile Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, waiting anxiously for news of the scale of the Labour advance in his first nationwide electoral test, will urge the electorate not to be duped by the promise of a coalition mark 2, predicting sham concessions by the Conservatives .
(6) The Labour MP urged David Cameron to guarantee that officers who give evidence over the alleged paedophile ring in Westminster will not be prosecuted.
(7) They urged the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to make air quality a higher priority and release the latest figures on premature deaths.
(8) Urban hives boom could be 'bad for bees' What happened: Two professors from a University of Sussex laboratory are urging wannabe-urban beekeepers to consider planting more flowers instead of taking up the increasingly popular hobby.
(9) However, self-efficacy (defined as confidence in being able to resist the urge to drink heavily) assessed at intake of treatment, was strongly associated with the level of consumption on drinking occasions at follow-up.
(10) "It's a very open question as to whether this will come," said a diplomat in Brussels, adding that Cameron could find himself in the lonely position of being the sole national leader urging a renegotiation.
(11) Enright said: “We call on the home secretary and chair of IICSA [the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse] to engage actively and urgently to find a way forward that secures the confidence of survivors and provides the inquiry’s legal team with the resources and support they need to deliver justice and truth that survivors deserve.” Stein said his clients were “deeply disatisfied” with aspects of how the inquiry had been conducted but called for Emmerson to stay, adding: “I urge the home secretary to seek to find a way in which his valuable contribution can be maintained”.
(12) But Berlusconi and Sarkozy, seeking to curry favour with the strong far-right constituencies in both countries, sought to bury their differences by urging the rest of Europe to buy into their anti-immigration agenda.
(13) There must also be strict rules in place to reduce the risks they take with shareholders' funds.Yet the huge cost of increasing capital and liquidity is forgotten when the Treasury urges them to increase lending to small and medium businesses.
(14) Tony Abbott urges Europe to adopt Australian policies in refugee crisis Read more Given that Obama – whatever one’s views on his strategy – is not advocating a bigger military contribution, the only difference is that Abbott is “urging” the US and others to do more, which sounds resolute, and Turnbull says he would consider any request if it was made.
(15) She began on Friday by urging Republican women at a convention to “look at this face”, meaning her own, condemned Trump’s remarks as “unpresidential”, and then the Super Pac campaigning group, Carly For America, used Fiorina’s words as a voiceover for a video ad posted on YouTube on Monday showcasing dozens of women’s faces as the “faces of leadership”.
(16) All patients should be urged strongly to give up smoking.
(17) The reform had already been put to me by the excellent John Simmonds at British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) who – without much success – had been urging this reform for some years.
(18) We urge all internet users to take action and update your operating system.
(19) We urge junior doctors to look at the detail of the contract and the clear benefits it brings.” The judicial review is based on the fact that the government appears to have failed to carry out an equality impact assessment (EIA), as required under the Equality Act 2010, before its decision to impose a new contract on junior doctors in England, the BMA said.
(20) In the clip – believed to be the first footage of a Briton fighting for the militants in Iraq rather than Syria – he urges others to take up arms and join the growing ranks of foreign fighters.