But the American Beverage Association, representing makers of Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Dr Pepper and other soft drinks, urged lawmakers to reject the tax.
They criticized Mr. Bush's state education standards and accountability system as too soft and urged the dismissal of the state education commissioner.
My head says I should be damning Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, the husband-and-wife writers, for the lazy and derivative format (cf Little Miss Sunshine, The Straight Story, etc); but my soft heart is urging me to praise them for importing a little originality into it.
The owner, whose manipulation, pettiness and fragmentation recalls some of the city's mayors, has behaved so well that some sportswriters are going soft on him, urging him not to sell the team and take several hundreds of millions in profit.
His style is a compromise between Nashville's seemingly overwhelming soft-rock urges and its need for brawn.
PATCHED: U.S. officials will take a new, "softer" approach to urging allies to restrict Huawei from their 5G networks at a meeting in Prague next month, Reuters reporters Christopher Bing and Jack Stubbs report.
Only in the business world (see article) are ties between the two countries still booming.Mrs Bakoyiannis has family memories of her own that may hold her back from urging a softer line on the Greek-Cypriots.
"Yesterday, I was 80 years old, so I'm in not too bad shape, right?" Mr. Bruno says he has been using a soft sell to urge the men who have been his colleagues for decades to run for re-election.
Amnesty International criticized the US for its "indifference and soft approach" and urged it to demand the detainees' release instead of engaging in wishful thinking about the appeal process.
Conductors make announcements urging passengers to "use soft tones and go to the vestibule to make calls".
"Not only does it block conversion to the faith; it is a perversion of faith!" In softer tones he urged families to show love by attention to small daily signs "which make us feel at home" – themes emblazoned on banners which fluttered in a cool breeze across the city.
