Sentence examples for exhorting action from inspiring English sources

Making a political statement at the Oscars podium appears to have come back into fashion, after Leonardo DiCaprio's Oscar-acceptance speech exhorting action over climate change led a string of wide-ranging statements at the 2016 ceremony – even if the expected controversy over Hollywood diversity was more muted than had been anticipated.

"We try, as you know, to be very careful and respectful of free speech, but we also try and understand when speech crosses the line of First Amendment-protected activity to action or exhorting action that is in violation of the law".

Shabazz spoke before the crowd of Harlem locals as well, exhorting them to action in more urgent tones than she those she used before the various dignitaries later in the day.

He's Paul McCartney, and he's Paul McCartney now the way that he was Paul McCartney ten years ago, or thirty, generically exhorting listeners to action or reminding them of glory of love or sketching the outlines of a less pleasant emotion (fear, sadness, unregulated anger) without any real specifics.

The net result, according to Bentley, is this: "Intelligent actions, emotional actions, linked actions, trains of action, planned actions, plotted actions, scheming, experimenting, persisting, exhorting, compelling, mastering, struggling, co-operating — such activities by the thousand we find going on around us in populations among which we are placed".

The net result, according to Bentley, is this: "Intelligent actions, emotional actions, linked actions, trains of action, planned actions, plotted actions, scheming, experimenting, persisting, exhorting, compelling, mastering, struggling, co-operating such aco-operating suchthousactivitiesd going on around us in populations among which we are placed".

The story was his inspired way of highlighting the problem and exhorting the rich to action.

The exhibition has several of Rubens's sketches for temporary architectural monuments that were to decorate Antwerp for an important princely visit, each monument crammed with symbols glorifying the ruler or exhorting him to take action for peace.

Exhorting his heroes to action, ruminating on the contingencies of history, opening unexpected global vistas out of small intimate moments, the otherwise slightly ingratiating narrative voice becomes at once more reticent and more resonant in these passages, its excitable tones serving the real grandeur of the story rather than the fretfulness of its author.

For another, I think Barack Obama probably has better things to do than tell us we're good enough, smart enough and darn it etc etc.As columns exhorting the president to therapeutic action go, E.J. Dionne's is not one of the worst, though it does contain a familiar silent crescendo.

Maduro said US government officials had warned him that Lopez's arrest could have "very negative consequences" and exhorted all legal actions against Lopez to be dropped.