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Example sentences for: urged

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The NYT reports inside that President Clinton seized on Dole's announcement to take a shot at George W. Bush, calling him the first candidate in the history of the modern era who's given up federal funding so that he could raise an unlimited sum of money, something Clinton says he'd been urged to do in the past but did not because it "wasn't fair."
First, Saddam urged Arab "masses" to overthrow Arab leaders "who boast of friendship with the United States."
In recent testimony before the Congress, GAO urged that the proposal for establishing DHS should not be considered a substitute for, nor should it supplant, the timely issuance of a national homeland security strategy.
Clarke urged Hadley to split off all other issues in U.S.-Pakistani relations and just focus on demanding that Pakistan move vigorously against terrorism-to push the Pakistanis to do before an al Qaeda attack what Washington would demand that they do after.
Though many lawyers provide such services, they are also being urged to write a check to a legal-services organization in lieu of the hours.