Sentence examples for urged why from inspiring English sources

When Thatcher told him she was going to make the poll tax her flagship policy, he urged "Why not choose the Titanic instead?" Although he lost a six-figure sum in the 1987 Lloyd's collapse, he thought the government would be "out of its tiny mind" to bail out the insurance market.

We need to put man's place in the universe into the overall scheme of things, he urges.So why are we still there?

I was urging them, "Why don't you try this book or that book?" and that was where my mind sort of was.

Cannot comprehend why, urged on by an unsavoury female, he confesses.

"Leave you troubles at the door," she urged the audience; why worry about the credit crunch when it "sounds like a cereal?" Later she mused on Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow's lovemaking and how his gentle persona might be counterproductive in the bedroom.

Meanwhile, the government has been urged to explain why it has bought 9,000 tickets for the Games.

British police are being urged to explain why the partner of a journalist was detained for nine hours under terror laws.

But this, unhappily, cannot be urged as a reason why the pioneer companies should be prosperous".

That is why many urged the president not to give him the job but to hold elections instead.

But Noah Feldman, a Harvard law professor who helped draft the constitution of Iraq, has urged Westerners to understand why, in some circumstances, Islamic law and governance seem appealing.

In a warning last Sunday, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons urged Ministers to investigate why in 2013-14 there was a sudden rise in self-inflicted deaths across the prison estate to 89 - the highest figure for 10 years.