In declaring the welcome of strangers a core American value, in placing immigrants at the center of the nation's success and future, Mr. Obama's exhortation was worthy of the late Senator Edward Kennedy, whose memory he respectfully summoned on Thursday.
Choose the future," went his exhortation.
Within ecology, in 1986, Daniel Janzen published an influential exhortation, "The Future of Tropical Ecology," urging ecologists to undertake the political activism necessary for conservation: "If biologists want a tropics in which to biologize [sic], they are going to have to buy it with care, energy, effort, strategy, tactics, time, and cash.
At times, their acknowledgment of past accomplishments seems grudging, their warning of future perils excessive, their exhortations to change life styles intrusive.
The DH survey is interesting, not because it is necessarily rigorous research – we know little about how it was analysed, the nature of the (self-selected) sample, or the implications of internet access, for example – but because it represents a kind of official account and has been presented as the background to future policy work and to exhortations to the professions to do better.
All the government can do is construct a moralistic good-housekeeping, live-within-our-means narrative of future redemption, but the modern appetite for exhortation is strictly limited.
Singapore's legal community is slowly but surely responding to exhortations to prepare for the future.
Three of her daughters, married off to unprepossessing Bourbons in Parma, Naples, and France again and again irritated their mother with their strong will or their follies; to her dying day she bombarded one of these, Queen Marie-Antoinette of France, with practical advice, moral exhortations, and dire warnings of the future.
The Torah portion for the day was about Moses' exhortation to the Jews to enter the future from Sinai.
At the ACC, it's Future, whose blustery mini-set trades in nuance for gruff exhortations, who feels unpolished, whereas Drake doesn't need to lean on his famous friends.
