Sentence examples for urged him to avoid from inspiring English sources

Before his 2011 triumph in the Scottish election, consultants urged him to avoid seeming smug.

The editorial urged him to avoid hasty decisions and to include opposition politicians in his cabinet.

He has been listening carefully to congressional elders who, he says, have urged him to avoid risky shortcuts.

It was a successful company, with clients such as Facebook, and Schwartz's colleagues urged him to avoid the political fray.

Trump was persuaded to stay on board, but he said he would also declare a national emergency, something Republican leaders had urged him to avoid.

For years, Woodfox had fantasized about walking out of court after being acquitted by a jury, but his lawyers urged him to avoid a trial.

When Jefferson wrote to 17-year-old John Norvell, urging him to avoid a career in journalism, he was embittered by reports spread by his political opponents that he had slept with Sally Hemings, one of his slaves.

Eventually, the two men seemed to reach a kind of truce, as Mr. Milosevic mellowed and Sir Richard kept urging him to avoid irrelevancies and be a better advocate of his case.

Many of the bill's sponsors, who did not anticipate Mr. Rouhani's surprise victory in Iran's election on June 14, were among the 131 lawmakers who signed a letter to President Obama on July 19 urging him to avoid "actions that delegitimize the newly elected president".

Trita Parsi, the president of the National Iranian American Council, a Washington-based group that opposes sanctions, noted that 131 House members had signed a letter to Mr. Obama less than two weeks ago in which they urged him to engage Mr. Rouhani and avoid actions that could undermine him.

Mr. Owens said he had concluded that his candidate could not win, and that he had written a letter to Mr. Green urging him to withdraw and avoid a replay of the divisive 1992 primary.