"urging us to" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use "urging us to" when you want to express encouragement or pleading. For example: The email from our boss was urging us to work harder to meet the deadline.
Urging us to use more wind power but complaining about all the hurricanes we keep having?
Loss is a kind of external conscience, urging us to make better use of our finite days.
She's urging us to pay a visit.
' trilled Fetaeli, urging us to proceed slowly.
We saw him waving eagerly, urging us to walk faster.
"They were urging us to get involved and speak in a very loud voice.
It is the very model that Deresiewicz has been urging us to smash.
Over on Twitter, they're urging us to eat "ghastly things for breakfast".
President Bush agrees, urging us to fly again and "enjoy life".
Topshop is currently urging us to "banish those blues" by splashing out on a skirt.
urging us to buy War Bonds something practically everybody is doing without prodding.
