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In Iowa, the Trump campaign had only urged supporters to attend the state's first-in-the-nation caucuses on 1 February and had made no attempt to encourage Trump supporters to be involved in electing delegates.

Although the 2nd Amendment people — maybe there is, I don't know". As criticism of the remark surged, advisors to the Republican presidential nominee said that he had only urged gun-rights supporters to unite behind his campaign.

I've only urged the rich countries who subsidize their agriculture not to use those subsidies to enable their farmers to access markets in poor countries.

The escalation in violence seems to have embarrassed Turkish officials, who had only last week urged at least a measure of patience in seeing whether Mr. Assad would act.

And within the last two weeks President Clinton has not only urged a re-examination of federal drug sentencing, but also proposed equalizing penalties for possession of powdered and crack cocaine, on the ground that the stiffer penalties for crack discriminated against members of ethnic minorities.

The one-child policy, enacted in 1979 to curb the explosive growth of China's population (which Mao, the paramount leader, had only a decade earlier urged on), was originally intended to stimulate an economy trapped deep in the doldrums.

When William Henry Harrison was being considered by Congress for the position of general-in-chief in late 1813 and early 1814, Desha opposed giving him the title because he claimed that Harrison had determined not to pursue British General Henry Procter following the Battle of the Thames and had only done so after strenuous urging by Isaac Shelby.

Even though Hummus Elite is mostly about hummus and has only 10 tables, a friend urged me to try it.

I joined Facebook last fall, at a friend's urging, but have only recently realized how much fun it is.

Long consumed by fear, anger and denial, many former detainees have only recently begun speaking out, urging New Delhi to admit mistakes, as Washington finally did in 1988 for the detention of Japanese Americans during World War II.

But attempts by the administration to plug leaks in the year since Edward Snowden turned over highly classified NSA surveillance documents to journalists have only led transparency advocates to urge other would-be whistleblowers to disclose more about the government's covert — and allegedly unlawful — activities.