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He often urged adherence even to rules that could seem overly harsh.
"We could see more nationalism, more racism, more fundamentalism, more violence," said the Greek leader, urging adherence to Scandinavian-style welfare.
The investigations should be "prompt, thorough, independent and impartial, and perpetrators should be brought to justice," a spokesman for Navi Pillay, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, told journalists in Geneva on Tuesday, urging adherence to human rights safeguards in arrests and detentions of demonstrators.
This indirect consequentialism had again been defended earlier, by Sidgwick and even John Stuart Mill, but Moore gave it a very conservative form, urging adherence to the rules even in the face of apparently compelling evidence that breaking them now would be optimific.
With many churches willing to urge only adherence to the old order, it is not surprising that people turn to television for counsel on the matter.
While the Administration voted for an Organization of American States resolution urging strict adherence to the constitution in Venezuela, it did not exactly condemn the coup plotters, many of whom it knew pretty well.
Speaking to shareholders at the central bank's annual assembly, George A. Provopoulos, who is also a member of the European Central Bank's governing council, urged strict adherence to reform and fiscal adjustment commitments Greece made to its euro zone partners, saying they were needed to return the economy to sustainable growth.
MOSCOW — A self-described guerrilla fighter urging strict adherence to Islamic law has claimed responsibility for the killing last month of one Muslim leader and the attempted murder of another, in Tatarstan, a region in central Russia that prides itself on a tradition of religious tolerance.
But given the barrage of reports of negative behavior by the ground forces, the top officers of the Army and the Marine Corps also have been meeting with their leadership to urge a renewed focus on discipline and adherence to orders.
At the first two treadmill sessions, and then on every other occasion (total of nine consultations), this support aimed to identify opportunities to incorporate physical activity into women's lives, to motivate them to use physical activity to reduce the urge to smoke, and to help them use behavioural strategies to improve adherence to these plans.
For instance, the president's compliance order had a previous iteration with the Clinton White House, which, at the urging of liberal groups, had tried to tie federal contracts to firms' adherence to labor and environmental standards.
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The phrase "urge adherence" functions primarily as a directive , aiming to strongly encourage or persuade individuals or groups to comply with specific rules, guidelines, or principles. Ludwig AI confirms the usability of the phrase in written English.
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