The National American Woman Suffrage Association urges upon this convention the necessity for such action as will make inevitable and immediate the ratification of the Federal Suffrage Amendment by the 36th State.
I apprehend it is a principle of this nature which urges gentlemen on to press the amendment.
The cool man encourages the heated; the sober man urges on the intoxicated.
In it he censures the work as being written from a too purely rationalistic point of view, but strongly urges the Government not to suppress it by an edict.
That is the argument I shall use with my Lord Carteret to make him understand that respect for my father's memory urges me to depart in silence--save for what I must have said to escape the impeachment with which you threatened me.
This character is the amusing factor of the play, Lucidor urges him to win her hand, but offers, as a compensation, if he loses, twelve thousand livres.
The counsel for the prosecution urges its continuance; while he for the accused is equally desirous of its being delayed.
With them the heart, more Christ-like than the creed, urges to a spirit of love and reverence even towards convictions opposed to their own.
Thoas urgeshis suit undismayed by the fate that hangs over the race of Tantalus.
Iago urges his own wife, who is Desdemona's maid, to pilfer this and bring it to him.
In season and out of season, he urges that you "come under the blood.
It is the excess of misery, the height of despair, the derangement of his brain, caused by melancholy, that urges man on to destroy himself.
Therefore he mounts a soap-box and passionately urges six small boys, the town drunkard and a policeman to accelerate the whirlwind and encourage the dawn in its commendable habit of punctuality.
Perhaps he sits on a high stool and ciphers in a great ledger, perhaps he haltingly dictates letters to a patronizing stenographer, perhaps he urges certain necessities or luxuries upon a suspicious public.
It urges the sinner to avail himself of the appointed means of grace, if he would be counted among the number of those for whom God has decreed salvation.
Upon the very ground of God's decree, the Scripture urges us to the diligent use of means.
Yet Peter urges Christians to add to their faith manliness, courage, heroism (2 Pet.
The Scripture urges upon us the thorough and comprehensive study of the truth (John 5:39, marg.
The familiar examples, which Socrates urges in his Dialogue with Theages, (Platon.
Renaudot urges the consent of the Mohametans, (Hist.
The impulse which urges him to devote his whole life to the teaching of religion is a strong passion in the guise of a duty.
But if we admit the plea which Mr. Montagu urges in defence of what Bacon did as an advocate, what shall we say of the Declaration of the Treasons of Robert, Earl of Essex?
God it is who must be Himself the satisfaction of that craving of the conscience which urges us towards holiness.
Again Lady Macbeth tries to bring him back to a sense of reality; tells him his thinking unbends his strength, and finally urges him to take the daggers back and "smear The sleepy grooms with the blood.
In the old play Arthur is presented as a prematurely wise youth who now urges the claims of his descent and speaks boldly for his rights, and now begs his vixenish mother to "Wisely winke at all Least further harmes ensue our hasty speech.
For solitude somtimes is best societie, And short retirement urges sweet returne.
Sidenote: The President urges the organization of California and New Mexico.
Another, apparently an influential layman, about half a century later urges Melito bishop of Sardis to compile a volume of extracts from the scriptures; and to him this father dedicates the work when completed[710].
In the last verse of the paragraph the Apostle urges both his appeals once more: he recalls the severity and the goodness of God.
The Apostle himself knew that to pray without ceasing requires an extraordinary effort; and in the only passages in which he urges it, he combines with it the duties of watchfulness and persistence (Eph.
He must come up with them before they can reach the cover, and to this end he once moreurges his animal both with spur and speech.
On reaching the level below he urges the animal to a gallop, and soon arrives at the ranche.
But his tottering steps contradict him, and heurges his objections in vain.
Instead of galloping away she urges the mustang on towards the yucca.
But we know that always, whether we pass into sterner conditions of life or escape to more pleasant circumstances, the times and changes that happen to us are of God's appointing, that His providence urges us toward a goal.
Moses is the prophet of this Divine mystery, stands for it almost alone, urges it upon Israel, is the means of impressing it by judgments and victories, by priestly law and ceremony, by the very example of his own failure in sudden trial.
In the introduction to the Seven Lamps of Architecture he urges that we are in no danger of too much use of the Bible.
All through he urges it as the one Book which needs recovery.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "urges" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
