Sentence examples for exhort and from inspiring English sources

Roosevelt gave him little authority beyond the power to exhort and orchestrate.

Keeping the peace: 6/10 Mostly Mr Ban can exhort and facilitate, unable to do much if others resist.

They are earnestly moral, didactic; they build them ever more stately mansions, and they exhort and plead and refine, and they are, insofar, books of error.

But for all his influence as the leader of the biggest economy in the world, Mr. Obama sometimes seemed a bystander, there to exhort and cajole the other European leaders (especially the German chancellor) but little else.

But whether Mr. Obama focuses on a short-term stimulus like job creation or long-range steps like deficit reduction, he will still have to beg, exhort and threaten Congress to take action in a meaningful way.

They represented a willful attempt to exhort and accommodate both the aspirations and troubles of their turbulent times — aspirations and troubles that especially affected the central business districts and inner cities in which they were often built.

He has encouraged and cajoled, exhorted and rebuked.

They have extolled, exhorted and even threatened, all to little avail.

Alexander Schneider, of the Budapest Quartet, was a Russian-accented volcano, exhorting and berating his charges.

It is art that bites, devours, exhorts and rebukes, that is simultaneously captivating and repellent.

He remained there the rest of his life, exhorting and comforting his scattered parish of fishermen, shepherds, and farmers.