Sentence examples for strenuously called for from inspiring English sources

Jewish groups had strenuously called for banning the march.

She finds self-promotion irksome, which is why, perhaps, she promotes Boal so strenuously, calling herself the "delivery system" for his content.

Immediately after Renzi's crushing defeat, the M5S, which is led by the comedian and activist Beppe Grillo, and which had strenuously opposed the Prime Minister's proposals, claimed victory and called for an early general election.

Gun control groups have called for several measures at the federal level that are strenuously opposed by the National Rifle Association and much of the gun industry, like a national system of licensing and registration, as well as limits on the number of guns people can buy.

Trump later called for a boycott of the company's products unless it acceded to the FBI's demand that it unlock one of the San Bernardino shooters' iPhones, a request Apple had strenuously resisted.

BEIJING — Mo Yan, the new Nobel laureate who strenuously avoided antagonizing the Communist Party during much of his literary career, stepped into a political minefield on Friday by calling for the release of Liu Xiaobo, the imprisoned writer and fellow Nobel winner who is serving an 11-year sentence for subversion.

We yearn for what she calls "strenuously exhibitionistic happiness" — think of family photos on Facebook — but instead we should focus on the fullness and intensity of emotion.

Gina McCarthy, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, received a much-deserved standing ovation for her major address at the National Academies of Science last week in which she strenuously countered what she called "a constant assault" by a small, vocal group of critics "playing a dangerous game" of trying to discredit EPA science.

Blavatnik now lives mostly in London and New York, and his public-relations people strenuously object when he is called an oligarch.

Lawyers representing corporate defendants had argued strenuously for the standard of review -- called "de novo review" -- that the court adopted today, saying that thorough appellate reviews would help curb excessive verdicts and bring consistency to an area of law in which variations in results have been wide and unpredictable.

Prosecutors called DeStefano an "inside man" for the rave companies, alleging that he "argued strenuously" for rent discounts and saved them "significant sums of money" in exchange for the payments.