Sentence examples for exhort citizens from inspiring English sources

AMID the bustling trade and raucous traffic of the Vietnamese capital, innumerable banners exhort citizens to "Celebrate the Spring, Celebrate the Party".

I have always found it amusing that we exhort citizens to lobby their legislators to change their minds and then rail at them for doing so.

As president he exhorted citizens to plunge into activities like 50-mile hikes.

He turned to The Cleveland Plain Dealer, which exhorted citizens to help save Balto.

Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, exhorted citizens to beware of enemy plots and to buy only domestically made products.

He stands at the top of a wedding-cake monument exhorting citizens to put "country before everything".

Official Chinese news media have exhorted citizens in recent days to "defend the torch" in each city on the relay route.

India, whose underground economy is thought to swallow up four hundred and sixty billion dollars annually, has considered capping cash transactions and cash holdings; in a recent radio address, Prime Minister Modi exhorted citizens to turn their backs on cash.

In those meetings and in an editorial in Thursday's People's Daily, the leaders betrayed their domestic uneasiness by exhorting citizens to "turn patriotic zeal into energy for a strong country" -- that is, to rally around President Jiang Zemin's leadership and work hard at their job or studies, rather than second-guessing the deal.

A standard response to the phenomenon of massive voting is to note how cheap the action is and how much public effort is expended in exhorting citizens to vote.

Comparing illegal immigration to a war that threatened the United States' future, GOP gubernatorial candidate Tim Donnelly once exhorted citizens to rise and join his fight to stop people from crossing the border, according to audio of a speech he gave in 2006.