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Mueller urged Barr to release Mueller’s own summaries of the two volumes of the report.
After the 2008 global financial crisis, the government urged banks to ramp up lending, and companies to accumulate large amounts of debt, in order to offset the external shock.
The US urged everyone to see that growth and development for one country could benefit all countries through increased trade and investment.
In the Netherlands, the Green Party has long urged the government to use fiscal policy to accelerate the energy transition.
In a meeting on the Sunday before the South Carolina primary the following Saturday, Clyburn urged Biden to “loosen up,” and “talk to people more personally, talk to them about their families, and about their communities.”
But he was so convinced that his non-violent methods were the only way to combat oppressive authority that he urged Europeans to engage in similar peaceful resistance against Hitler.
In July, driver associations in Nairobi, Kenya, urged stoppages by those working for digital-based ride-hailing services – including Uber, the Estonian company Bolt (formerly Taxify), and the locally owned Little Cab – over precisely such complaints.
The economic orthodoxy that took hold three decades ago derided the state-led approach and urged Latin American countries to undertake market reforms that, so far, have failed to fulfill their promise.
The IMF extended generous support, and urged its usual all-purpose policy prescription: fiscal tightening.
Young people have urged political leaders to listen to the scientists.
Count Alexis urged me very much.'
'He urged me to take an interest in the village school.
Then he acknowledged that he could treat with them at once, and urged them to accept in the name of their wives and little ones dying of hunger.
It was the women who pushed and screamed and urged on the men.
He was astonished to see them still coming out, and irritated at the idea that it was not a mere handful of workers, urged by hunger, terrorized by the captains.
And he knew no more; no one had urged him on, it had come to him of itself, just as the desire to steal onions from a field came to him.
The breath of the invisible intoxicated him, the black horror of this rain-beaten hole urged him to mad destruction.
The furnaces were urged into greater activity; our propeller did forty-three revolutions per minute, and steam shot from the valves.
The need of looking after others was not the only thing that urged the chemist to such obsequious cordiality; there was a plan underneath it all.
"That'll purge me," he urged as an objection to all reasoning.
Nothing proved to Emma that he was not clever; and what a satisfaction for her to have urged him to a step by which his reputation and fortune would be increased!
Charles, urged by the druggist and by her, allowed himself to be persuaded.
He could not understand what furious desire for locomotion urged these individuals never to wish to stop.
But as he urged her to try, she resolutely began eating, while Charles opposite her sat motionless in a dejected attitude.
That same evening she urged Bovary to write to his mother, to ask her to send as quickly as possible the whole of the balance due from the father's estate.
Nevertheless, not shrinking from what he called his mission, he returned to Bovary's in company with Canivet whom Monsieur Lariviere, before leaving, had strongly urged to make this visit; and he would, but for his wife's objections, have taken his two sons with him, in order to accustom them to great occasions; that this might be a lesson, an example, a solemn picture, that should remain in their heads later on.
'Since Sorel is not delighted and overwhelmed by my proposal, as he ought naturally to be, it is clear,' he said to himself, 'that overtures have been made to him from another quarter; and from whom can they have come, except from Valenod?'It was in vain that M. de Renal urged Sorel to conclude the bargain there and then: the astute old peasant met him with an obstinate refusal; he wished, he said, to consult his son, as though, in the country, a rich father ever consulted a penniless son, except for form's sake.
At the same time, urged by the most intense curiosity, he studied the expression on Mathilde's features; he could not conceal from himself that she had a sharp and malevolent air.
A blind instinct urged him to postpone the decision of his fate.
During the six weeks that had just elapsed, urged at one moment by a caprice, the Marquis had decided to enrich Julien; poverty seemed to him ignoble, dishonouring to himself, M. de La Mole, impossible in the husband of his daughter; he showered money upon him.
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