(v. t.) To encourage; to animate; to incite or stimulate the courage of; to embolden.
(v. t.) To restore fertility or strength to, as to land.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fact that true friendship really can exist in the Big Brother house was heartening.
(2) There is a striking amount of national introspection in a hearteningly vibrant press.
(3) Many of us were heartened in 2002 when David Cameron, recognising this problem, argued: "Drugs policy in this country has been failing for decades.
(4) So in this era of leaks, and institutions you can't trust it's incredibly heartening that a crowd of people came together to witness a special event and have shown they can be trusted to keep a secret.
(5) 9.55am BST Heartening news from Britain's construction sector: it clawed its way back towards growth in April, with a monthly PMI of 49.4 (up from 47.2).
(6) There has been a heartening response to the Let Them Stay campaign ... Public opinion is beginning to shift and we think we will get Manus and Nauru closed.” Carrying “Free the refugees” placards and chanting “let them stay”, protesters gathered in Sydney’s Belmore Park before marching through the central business district.
(7) Tony Blair became bored and frustrated with domestic policy and – heartened by success in Sierra Leone – decided that it was much more exciting to apply himself to exporting liberal democracy around the world.
(8) We should also be heartened by the extraordinary increase in our knowledge of embryonic development in Drosophila as a result of just such a strategy.
(9) I'd go on and listen and be heartened by the way women were responding."
(10) Chelsea must rise to that challenge, and their refusal to wilt was heartening, prompting comparisons with Sir Alex Ferguson's Manchester United, whose constant probing would often draw late rewards from apparent lost causes.
(11) In this regard it is heartening that operating funds for the institutes at NIH other than NCI will increase by $264 million in 1974.
(12) A fellow Democrat, Joe Manchin, who has opposed military action, said he was heartened by the meeting and said he would pursue a separate resolution giving the Syrians time to comply.
(13) This is, on the face of it, a rare and heartening case of disparate peoples being led to a common conclusion by evidence and reason, but serendipity played its part too.
(14) We are greatly heartened there will not be a long, arduous wait for the next milestone to arrive,” he said.
(15) UN Women's executive director, Michelle Bachelet, said she was "particularly heartened" that an agreement was reached this year.
(16) "The performance of consumer goods producers was especially heartening in May, with output rising for the first time in 14 months," said Markit's Dobson.
(17) Benjamin explains that having a direct route to others online as a young person was a heartening way of connecting when he felt "very isolated".
(18) The same implications than would so hearten the Lib Dems about the result would dismay the Tories.
(19) At a meeting between car manufacturers and Davis on Monday, attendees were said to be heartened that the government increasingly understood the need for them to retain access to European markets but were worried there was little plan for achieving this.
(20) Johnson's riposte has been to start a rerun of the whole process , scheduling it to end handily close to an expected change of government and surely heartened by shadow culture secretary Jeremy Hunt's indication that he, unlike Bradshaw, wouldn't prevent Johnson from getting his way.
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.