"urged moves" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe someone persuading or pressuring someone else to take action. For example, "The labor union urged management to make moves towards providing better working conditions for their employees."
He called for an end to all violence in the country and urged moves to full democracy.
Following the referendum, Mr Cameron vowed to give tax-raising powers to the Scottish Parliament but also urged moves "in tandem" to restrict Scottish MPs from voting on English matters.
US Secretary of State John Kerry has called for an end to all violence in Egypt and urged moves to full democracy on his first visit to the country since President Mohammed Morsi was ousted.
Speaking after the UN urged moving from fossil fuels to renewable sources, Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey said other countries must try to be as "ambitious" as the UK.
A mayoral staff report titled "Filling Potholes From Punjab" urging moving the 311 call center to India.
Fost (1994) argues that a brain-dead pregnant woman ought not be counted as a person with interests relevant to the moral calculation, and he urges moving moral attention away from the 'interests' of the fetus as well.
Angelou met novelist John Oliver Killens in 1959 and, at his urging, moved to New York to concentrate on her writing career.
Residents of towns in its path were urged to move immediately to higher ground.
Mr. Karzai has been urged to move against the regional commanders for months.
As the scale of Tory losses around the country became clear, a few of them urged a move further right.
Her husband initially urged the move to buy properties in Houston more than a decade ago, during the oil bust, she said.
