Sentence examples for first urge from inspiring English sources

One temptation, perhaps, is to succumb to Leontius' first urge: to turn our eyes away.

The first urge it sparks in me is performative: it makes me look at my own critical work and wonder which judgments or evaluations I regret.

You should first urge the company to act, and if it does not, then you should warn your neighbors both about the vexatious bedbugs and about the head-in-the-sand management.

Suppressing my first urge, which was to get my children from their different schools (but which one first?) and head up to my mother's in Massachusetts, I picked up the phone and started making calls.

His first urge to make a costume drama came in 1945, but Coward cautioned against it: 'My dear, what do you know about costumes?' So he made Brief Encounter, his first best director Oscar nomination.

The board first urged the installation of the detectors on cruise ships in 1997.

"Dude, you have to get on these superpills," Thomas McLaughlin, then 24, whose melanoma was diagnosed first, urged his cousin, Brandon Ryan.

Senator Paul spoke first, urging the good people of North Carolina to send "a dragon slayer" to Washington.

Hugh Byfield, 81, a neighbor who first urged Mr. Whitehead to back Mr. Obama, had never campaigned before the presidential race.

That was a revolutionary notion when he first urged Indians to unite against their oppressors in South Africa before the turn of the 20th century.

But it borders on malpractice to allow young veterans to surrender to psychological wounds without first urging them to pursue recovery.