Sentence examples for exhortation by from inspiring English sources

Those killings put into motion the exhortation by Mr. Jones that culminated in his night of mass suicide and murder.

The exhortation by the cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, was significant because he had exerted some influence on past elections.

The state news media also gave extensive coverage to anticorruption efforts in the Chinese military, including an exhortation by President Hu Jintao to maintain purity in the military ranks.

The exhortation by Winthrop, "For wee must Consider that wee shall be as a Citty uppon a Hill, the eies of all people are uppon us," underlines the strength of conviction of the Puritan mission.

In "Make Someone Happy" she substituted "them" for a singular pronoun to transform this exhortation by Jule Styne and Comden and Green into a contemplation of friendship and humanity, instead of romantic happily-ever-after.

In urging President Bush to use his Afghanistan momentum to press on to Iraq, I turned to an exhortation by Shakespeare: "There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune......

Since then, exhortations by advertisers to express individuality — by, oddly enough, consuming mass-market products — have grown louder.

Grander still, "Oedipus Rex" benefited from lucid narration by the actress Kathleen Chalfant, stormy exhortations by Mr. Relyea and the larger-than-life presence of Jennifer Larmore as Jocasta.

Time and again, repeated phone calls from Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to General Sisi asking for restraint and similar exhortations by Secretary of State John Kerry have been ignored.

The event also underscored the occasional exhortations by Mr. Bush, who considers himself a devout Christian, for Americans to rediscover the benefits of more traditional mores.

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.