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I made the same condemnation to them, and urged that they declare a unilateral ceasefire or orchestrate with Israel a mutual agreement to terminate all military action in and around Gaza for an extended period.
On August 21, Germany’s foreign minister, Heiko Maas, urged Europe to establish payment channels that are independent of the US.
In a speech in March marking the Iranian new year, he called for a year of “production and employment,” and urged the next president to create jobs with local resources, rather than look for assistance abroad.
Some have urged focusing attention on bringing relief efforts to Burma instead of criticizing its government.
Many well-meaning people saw Rajapaksa’s promise as warmongering, and, even as Sri Lanka’s army has been pressing toward victory, urged him to negotiate with perhaps the world’s most fanatical terror organization (the Tamil Tigers, it should be recalled, virtually invented the cult of the modern suicide bomber.)
Second, I urged the Security Council to consider other ways to strengthen security in the disarmament process, and to assure non-nuclear-weapon states against nuclear weapons threats.
I proposed to the Council that it convene a summit on nuclear disarmament, and I urged non-NPT states to freeze their own weapon capabilities and make their own disarmament commitments.
MUNICH – Last summer, the financier George Soros urged Germany to agree to the establishment of the European Stability Mechanism, calling on the country to “lead or leave.”
The parliamentary opposition urged Prime Minister Monmahan Singh, who wisely kept his head down, to join in the populist America-bashing.
Kuznets argued against making this fundamental change in perspective permanent, and he urged governments to return to focusing on income and its distribution.
But he also urged other leaders to put their countries first, too.
Serb troops beat, killed, and jailed Albanians, whose leaders, following cues from Western embassies, urged nonviolence.
Most extreme, health officials in El Salvador and Colombia urged women not to get pregnant until 2018.
Several democratically elected leaders urged constitutional modifications in order to remain in power.
He urged scientists and scientific institutions around the world to resolve this inequity and bring the benefits of science to all.
The European Union has urged Sri Lanka and Bangladesh to reconsider their strategies, arguing that “the death penalty doesn’t act as a deterrent to crime, and any error of judgment is impossible to correct.”
Meanwhile, a State Department spokesperson urged India’s authorities to act with “appropriate democratic restraint” in response to the crisis provoked by Harare’s protests.
Many countries changed their policies, but in directions markedly different from the reforms that the IMF had urged.
In South Korea, the IMF urged the sale of the country’s banks to American investors, even though Koreans had managed their own economy impressively for four decades, with higher growth, more stability, and without the systemic scandals that have marked US financial markets with such frequency.
Ever since the fall of Saddam Hussein, the US has urged Saudi Arabia to invest politically and economically in Iraq.
Even as the rich countries urged developing countries to make quick adjustments, they claimed that they needed a decade to make the transition to a quota-free textile regime.
When the exchange rate plummeted again, the Kremlin urged the five largest state-owned exporting companies to exchange a portion of their assets into rubles, leading to another overshoot, followed by yet another sharp decline.
Wen met a cooler reception in London, where he fumed at the UK for its criticism of human rights in China, calling it “finger pointing,” and urged “respect” for the Chinese people.
Nothing less, they urged, would be enough.
Recently, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter urged US Cyber Command – the arm of the military dedicated to cyberspace operations – to “intensify the fight” against ISIS.
And, for nearly a decade, China has been urged to undertake reforms to redress these economic patterns, which have undermined the welfare of ordinary Chinese and strained the global trading system.
Urged on by such forces, people may even decide to take the law into their own hands.
In a lecture in October 2012, Mervyn King, the former governor of the Bank of England, urged proponents of OMF to be clear that they are proposing increased fiscal deficits.
More recently, a representative of the National Rifle Association urged viewers to fight the “lies” of the mainstream media with “the clenched fist of truth.”
And yet Trump has backed away from his threat, and the Europeans have moved a little in the direction that the US has urged.
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