Sentence examples for firmly urged from inspiring English sources

But David Cameron must be aware that Labour is a party which has itself only discovered the importance of gay equality in the past 20 years (in a rare moment of something less than his usual self-canonisation, Tony Benn acknowledges in his diaries that – acting as the Peter Mandelson of his day – he firmly urged Labour's 1960s leadership to leave homosexual equality well alone).

At last when the patio is successfully finished, they can stand his supervision no longer and this time firmly urge him to go home.

After ascertaining that she is finished packing, he firmly urges her to vacate the room, which she does.

But we also firmly urge the government of Turkey to maintain calm and stability throughout the country," U.S. Secretary of State Kerry told a news briefing in Brussels where he attended a gathering of European counterparts.

To his wife's astonishment, as the session drew into its third hour, Mr. Collier rose to take the microphone and firmly, but courteously, urged Mr. Bishop to oppose the health care legislation being written in Washington.

The document also urged educators "firmly to resist infiltration by hostile forces".

On that front, Durbin stood firmly with Obama, urging extension of middle-class tax cuts for 98percentt of Americans.

"Teachers must vote firmly against this barmy proposal," urged the Sun.

But Ms. Palin, while aligning herself firmly with the Tea Party, nevertheless urged the 1,100 people who had gathered in a hotel ballroom not to let the movement be defined by any one leader.

Firmly press it down.

At a Mass in the city center, Francis urged Neapolitans to "react firmly to organizations that exploit and corrupt young people, that exploit the poor and the weak with cynical drug trafficking and other crimes".