Hoffecker hoped to lower the number, urging the sculptor to lobby for a decrease.
The United States has been scrupulously trying to lower the temperature and urging a diplomatic resolution.
At the same time, Wilde's revisions to the opening dialogue between Basil and Lord Henry betray a rising anxiety, an urge to lower the emotional temperature.
Head teachers are also being urged to lower the price of lunches to boost take-up.
As a result, the Iranian hospitals were urged to lower the C-section rate in public hospitals to figures lower than 20% and in referral hospitals to less than 25% [ 11].
At age 10, he testified at the Minnesota Statehouse, urging lawmakers to lower the voting age — but only to 16.
In the April issue of Talk magazine, a story about Ted Leonsis told how the new owner of the Washington Capitals chatted during an intermission with fans who "urge the boss to lower the earsplitting volume of the P.A. system".
Companies have urged the government to lower the country's effective corporate tax rate — which now stands at 40 percent, around the same rate as that in the United States — to stimulate investment in Japan and to encourage businesses to create more jobs.
In her recent book, "Executive Presence", Sylvia Anne Hewlett of the Centre for Talent Innovation in New York urges young women to lower the register of their voices, as Margaret Thatcher did, eliminate uptalking and other vocal tics, and look people in the eye when giving presentations.
As we saw from the overwhelming number of kids who came out in support of the petition urging the MPAA to lower the rating of BULLY to PG-13, this is their story, and they want it to be heard.
