Sentence examples for for exhorting from inspiring English sources

Shortly after this, Li Jingfang, a cousin, noticed on Hong's bookshelves an unusual work entitled Quanshi liangyan ("Good Words for Exhorting the Age").

At the church, Mayor Bloomberg added his voice to a growing chorus of elected officials denouncing a video game, "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City," for exhorting players at one point to kill Haitians.

But analysts have criticized the company recently for exhorting bottlers to invest heavily in manufacturing plants and other equipment, based on sales targets that became increasingly unattainable as economies around the world sputtered.

Sartre takes this ground-level fact of engagement as the basis for exhorting us to be engaged in a deeper sense, where this implies that we decisively and wholeheartedly involve ourselves in what the current situation demands.

He was accused of "producing documents that spread false and fabricated information, distorted the leadership and management of the state; causing confusion for the people; and provoking, advocating for and exhorting against the state, and slandering and offending the honor of the leaders of the state," the government said.

Mr. Burrell has traveled the South for years, exhorting black audiences in auditoriums and church halls to file discrimination complaints with his organization's help, in exchange for a $100 annual membership fee.

In Ramat Beit Shemesh B, signs on the walls of buildings call for modesty, exhorting women and girls to dress in buttoned-up, long-sleeved blouses and long skirts.

In the acknowledgements of this memoir, Alan Cumming thanks his agent for "not exhorting me to do a 'my fabulous celebrity life' type of book", and despite occasional references to hosting charity galas and wearing Alexander McQueen, Not My Father's Son tells two stories that unfold in places far removed from that glamour.

Mr. Obama has focused on these concerns for some time, exhorting colleges and universities, and state legislators, to make higher education more affordable.

In his youth, he would walk the streets night after night, hunting for prostitutes – and exhorting them, apparently quite genuinely, to find redemption in the Lord.

The subtitle and the introduction promise some kind of arch handbook for the perplexed, exhorting readers to "consider this book a guide to seriousness past and present, as well as a survivor's manual for the seriousness-­starved".