Sentence examples for he urged upon from inspiring English sources

Old and weary, he withdrew to the Rhine and decided against all further expansion, a policy he urged upon his successor.

Vivekananda wrote of the professor, "He urged upon me the necessity of going to the Parliament of Religions, which he thought would give an introduction to the nation".

Among American Presidents, he is, she argues, "our great refrainer," an epithet that doesn't cry out for an obelisk, or even an auditorium, but which she urges upon us with an unflagging nineteen-twenties sort of pep.

His chief target was the Center for American Studies, where, upon his arrival, he urged researchers to confess their betrayal of Communist beliefs.

Having studied African culture and traced its influences upon Western civilization, he urged black painters, sculptors, and musicians to look to African sources for identity and to discover materials and techniques for their work.

He said his decision was not urged upon him by Mortimer Zuckerman, the chairman and a co-publisher of the newspaper.

He considered that work a mission, urged upon him by the Rev. John Courtney Murray, a fellow Jesuit instrumental in writing the council's declaration on religious liberty.

It was exactly the sort of face-to-face and away-from-the-notetakers sort of meeting that officials in Beijing are believed to have urged upon the northern Mr Kim when he suddenly scuttled off to China only days before the summit.

But what is urged upon museum visitors?

The limit was originally urged upon the European Union by Germany under Chancellor Helmut Kohl.

It is now scolding banks for the recklessness that was urged upon them during the crisis.