Sentence examples for first urging from inspiring English sources

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

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

Although the cartoon Cathy, above, is often frustrated by her overly loving mother, in real life Ms. Guisewite credits her mother with first urging her to write and draw comics.

But with their southern neighbor boiling over, Turkey made a determined effort to intervene: first urging reform, then negotiations, then demanding an end to the bloodshed, before finally embracing the opposition, giving up on the Assad regime, and announcing far-reaching sanctions against their one-time ally.

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.

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.

Among the reforms imposed on the department are some that were first urged after the Rodney King incident, including a computerized "early warning" system for tracking problem officers.

As I walked through the Capitol on Thursday afternoon, I bumped into the senior senator from Illinois, Richard J. Durbin, who was among those who first urged Mr. Obama to run.

She had used knives and a cane and a plastic bag, and she swore that she had first urged the girl to take her own life.