Sentence examples for but exhortation from inspiring English sources

Pity them because they have nothing but exhortation to fulfil this impossible mission.

The government talks of better manufacturing standards, but exhortation has yet to lead to action.America's Food and Drug Administration FDAA), the world's biggest drug-safety agency, has steadily reached beyond the country's borders.

But exhortations by revered Jewish religious leaders (not self-proclaimed guardians of public morality) to give particular care to matters of modesty in times of widespread societal licentiousness are about one thing only: honoring the Jewish religious tradition.

Both the king and the archbishop showed favour to zealous reformist preachers such as Conrad Waldhauser and Jan Milíč of Kroměříž, but exhortations from the pulpit failed to turn the tide.

Rather than tackling public safety risks like the Stand Your Ground law implicated in the killing of Trayvon Martin in Florida, Mitt Romney and others offered nothing but exhortations to defend the Second Amendment's right to bear arms at all costs.

But that exhortation did not stand on its own in my mind.

That King's references to Exodus and Jesus were intended not as mere narrative, but as exhortation to action.

He will mine popular standards and may even sing some original material, including "Shhh!!!" — a playful but pointed exhortation he wrote after facing a particularly noisy audience.

Schaeffer didn't like the formal melding of church and state, but his exhortation to readers was that Christianity, properly applied, "brings forth not only certain personal results, but also governmental and legal results".

"You go girl" – it's not a phrase I've ever wanted to use before and I'm sort of hoping I can think of an alternative quite soon, but that exhortation has come to mind quite frequently over the past 24 hours.

Comparison with Empedocles' address to Pausanias suggests, moreover, that what we have is not a dedication but an exhortation or an attempt to instruct (Vlastos 1953, 344, n. 25).