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Example sentences for: urges

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Newsweek also runs an essay from Clinton-loyalist-cum-moralist George Stephanopoulos, who urges the prez to come clean.
It is true that it is set to David Rose's famous "Stripper," which urges one to "take it off, take it all off"--but the spot's producers, Chicago firm Rhea & Kaiser, were sharply aware of the Cotton Belt-Bible Belt overlap.
Newsweek 's paranoid cover package ("it's Lord of the Flies on a vast scale") urges early childhood intervention for difficult toddlers and "zero tolerance for bullies."
This makes the black intellectual not only a propagandist but also an apologist, at times, of the most hypocritical sort, blowing up trivialities while ignoring profundities because of their ambiguous nature, all the while operating with the urges of a philanthropist, discarding merit in the name of equality of space or for "educating" the public in favor of a good cause.
Tragedy doesn't stir violent urges but rather inhibits them.