How To Use Exhort In A Sentence

The record was, I think, called Peace, a heart-warming exhortation for world leaders to avoid war – although many of them, unbelievably, have completely ignored the doughty cloggers' message in the intervening years. Which footballers have produced their own food and drink?
I have found among my old papers a kind of congratulation and exhortation which I made to myself on dying at an age when I had the courage to meet death with serenity, without having experienced any great evils, either of body or mind. The Confessions of J J Rousseau
We have become a nation of children, happy to surrender our judgments and our wills to political exhortations and commercial blandishments that would insult actual adults.
If the people of our charge must ` teach and admonish and exhort each other daily, 'no doubt teachers may do it to one another, without any super-eminency of power or degree. The Reformed Pastor
So saying, he exhorted Brown to be hasty in dispatching his breakfast, as, the frost having given way, the scent would lie this morning primely. Chapter XXV

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To get this project moving, central government needs to heed his exhortations. Times, Sunday Times
3 For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile: 4 Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
To get this project moving, central government needs to heed his exhortations. Times, Sunday Times
The conclusion is a pressing exhortation to Catholics to be discerning, and a pledge to undertake a critical dialogue with those affected by New Age influences.
It was only when I was on the second sachet and gleefully exhorting the recalcitrant bubbling cauldron to cleanse thyself, that the Gamekeeper ran in gasping and flung all the windows open. 42 entries from November 2007
Will his rebellion be accompanied by patriotic exhortations - the kind which we associate with the freedom struggle that followed?
This sustained defiance of the elements provoked occasional judgments in the shape of a "hoast" (cough), and the head of the house was then exhorted by his women folk to "change his feet" if he had happened to walk through a burn on his way home, and was pestered generally with sanitary precautions. Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners)
Yet he exhorted the true “naturalist” not to “let the search or knowledge of final causes make him neglect the industrious indagation [i.e., investigation] of effi - cients,” and he implied that the naturalist's principal aim was the discovery of efficient causes. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Within a fortnight of the President's exhortation to agricultural scientists, farmers dumped cartloads of tomato on the streets.
The general exhorted his men to fight well.
But these exhortations have changed little at the grass-roots level.
Nor are these assertions mere neutral constations; they are exhortative performatives that require the passage from sheer enunciation to action. Reading, Begging, Paul de Man
If you don't agree with everything written by Paul, or in the creeds (and downgrade them to second-source interpretations) then your own second-source interpretation can only be looked at as another alternative source written in AD 2009 exhorting followers of Christ to do it a different way - the Book of McGrath, if you will (which leads one to question how are you so sure you have it right?) Self-Critical Faith
Because as soon as you step in, you become aware of a huge sea of noise stretching away before you: whispers, murmurs, bangs, shouts, swearing, poems, confessions, exhortations.
And one anonymous poet exhorted the women of the city to put on your best; in all the colors of the bow be drest. Robert Morris
Another passage was the one where Miss Brodie exhorts her girls to be sure to recognise their prime and to live it to the full.
Despite the exhortations of the union leaders the workers voted to strike.
Consumers have repeatedly ignored exhortations to buy British and the like in favour of global products.
He furnishes handholds and issues both exhortations and admonitions: Readers are told, in effect, that there will be passages of extreme difficulty and complexity (and of plain longueur), but they are simultaneously assured that the effort will be rewarding and worthwhile. Literary Companion
Concepts of fire and damnation have given way to more sanguine personal exhortations to love, service and devotion.
No sooner has a cease-fire been signed than it is broken, and Big Brother in either case exhorts the citizens, known as proles, to make ever greater sacrifices, especially their liberty.
The chairman exhorted the party workers to action.
To get this project moving, central government needs to heed his exhortations. Times, Sunday Times
Wherever we went we were exhorted to join in family picnics, take tea or share hubble-bubble.
Instead of using a "sjambok" smokers should be exhorted not to smoke and shown the dangers in and consequences of such a habit. ANC Daily News Briefing
Why the incoming President's advance exhortation in favor of the decision?
O pr£clar. ts infana do6lrin. i exhortationes, qti£ dum inftnicnti populo pl.t. tde hitndtunttir, ac tantum no applaudunt, fimtd etia ejficiunt, yt ohfitnatius furere pero-itt! Ioannis Calvini Opuscula omnia in unum volumen collecta : Quibus accessit libellus nuc primùm editus, De aeterna Dei praedestinatione, adversus Albertù Pighium Campensem, & Georgium Siculum. Locorum sacrae Scripturae in his opusculis obiter interpreta
Now, I understand not hereby those doctrinal reproofs when, in the dispensation of that word of grace and truth which is "profitable for correction and reproof," 2 Tim.iii. 16, they speak, and exhort, and "rebuke" the sins of men "with all authority," Tit.ii. 15; but the occasional application of the word unto individual persons, upon their unanswerableness in any thing unto the truth wherein they have been instructed. The Sermons of John Owen
This Sermoun ended, in the whiche he did vehementlie exhorte all man to amendment of lyffe, to prayaris, and to the warkis of charitie, the myndis of men began wounderouslye to be erected. The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
To be fair, this exhortation is not simply an invitation to be greedy.
My counter-intuitive feeling is that the constant exhortations of the need for leaders does not come from ordinary Australians but from certain elites.
And this ruler is distinguished from him that exhorteth, and him that teacheth, with whose special work, as such, he hath nothing to do; even as they are distinguished from those who give and show mercy; that is, there is an elder by office in the Church, whose work and duty it is to _rule_, not to exhort or teach ministerially, which is our ruling elder. The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
You can almost hear, watching their avidly gleeful faces, the exhortations of the stage manager to look more joyful.
The chairman exhorted the party workers to action.
Just as important, though, is a difference in function between retrospective appraisal and present judgments that have an exhortative function as much as anything else. Am I a Relativist? Well, It Depends.
He deals more in exhortations, because those intent on useless questions needed chiefly to be recalled to the study of a holy, moral life; for nothing so effectually allays men's wandering curiosity, as the being brought to recognize those duties in which they ought to exercise themselves" [Calvin]. speak -- without restraint: contrast Tit 1: 11, "mouths ... stopped." doctrine -- "instruction" or "teaching. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
She gently admonished the translator, a man, by exhorting him not to be chauvinistic by distorting facts.
China's national anthem exhorts its citizens to move forward and resist foreign aggressors.
However, Goodchild (brought back by his cry for help) bandaged the ankle with a pocket-handkerchief, and assisted by the landlord, raised the crippled Apprentice to his legs, offered him a shoulder to lean on, and exhorted him for the sake of the whole party to try if he could walk. The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
And you will accomplish it aright if, wherever you come, you soon collect to you the inhabitants of the place and reveal to them the word of exhortation, and at the same time, as if the leader of a heavenly troop, set an example of living, along with all who come with you. The Early Middle Ages 500-1000
It must not be exhortation, sermon, or good intentions. MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices
Upon this account, St. Peter exhorts the ministers of the gospel so to preach to the people, and so to perform the public offices of religion, as may be for the honour of religion; and this he calls glorifying of The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 09.
Concepts of fire and damnation have given way to more sanguine personal exhortations to love, service, and devotion.
She exhorts her audience to put up banners and posters on the highways and byways.
Therefore that which I would exhort you to, is to acquaint yourselves with Jesus Christ, and you shall find a new way opened in him, by which you may boldly come to God, and having come to God in him, you are called to walk with him to entertain that acquaintance that is made, till all the distance and estrangedness of your hearts be worn out. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
What began as a careless exhortation has blossomed into something I am proud to be a part of, and I hope this redresses some sort of karmic imbalance I no doubt incurred in my youth.
He accompany me, however, not lose one moment in continuing his exhortation.
The book is essentially an exhortation to religious tolerance.
Other examples in the two inch thick cardboard bound volume include rousing poems exhorting the empire to action, and photos of Egyptian women dressed proudly in traditional garb.
To get this project moving, central government needs to heed his exhortations. Times, Sunday Times
At the first sign of a wrinkle, all the fuss about aging and antiaging products made instant sense, and I found myself wishing I had listened to my mother's exhortations to slather on sunblock. Pore Man
Allen's eyeballs looked fit to pop out of his head on several occasions as he exhorted his players.
We may gather from the rich abundance of motives which the Apostle suggests before he comes to present his exhortation, that he suspected the existence of some tendencies in the opposite direction in Philippi, and possibly the same conclusion may be drawn from the exuberance of the exhortation itself, and from its preceding the dehortation which follows. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.
The government exhorts us to get off the roads and onto the railway, but it may not have considered the opposite proposition.
In his homily, he took up the words of Pope Benedict's homily at Solemn Vespers on the occasion of the conclusion of the Pauline Year highlighted on the NLM, and exhorted the new priests to be committed to the inviolability of human life from its first instant, thereby radically opposing the principle of violence also precisely in the defence of the most defenceless human creatures is part of an adult faith. Ordinations in Toledo
He exhorted all the guests to be in honour, gleesome, and merry, and requested leave to join the dancers, which was not refused him. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844
Sometimes his exhortations resemble those of a student union leader in a denim jacket and a loudhailer.
But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.
There was Newt Gingrich rallying rabid House Republican foot soldiers, exhorting them to persist in their August doldrum attacks against the Democratic leadership in a virtually empty House chamber. Gingrich Shows Up on the Hill to Shades of the Past - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
There we are exhorted not to fall into the common error of passing from unity to infinity, but to find the intermediate classes; and we are reminded that in any process of generalization, there may be more than one class to which individuals may be referred, and that we must carry on the process of division until we have arrived at the infima species. The Statesman
Kennedy exhorted his listeners to turn away from violence.
But if the clause be rendered in the second manner, then the sixteenth verse contains an exhortation in these words: "Walk in the Spirit;" and a consectary subjoined to the exhortation in these words: "And ye shall not fulfill the desires or lusts of the flesh. The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2
Then the two verses before it with wonderful antithetical parallelism, and the two verses after it with the exhortation to persevere.
There are exhortatory texts in majolica that run round the room as a frieze. Times, Sunday Times
Some were crying, some laughing aloud some groaning and howling and some holding forth in fancied exhortations. The Hidden Hand
Since Dawkinsâ philosophical/theological (atheological?) writings seem, from what I have seen, to mostly be of interest to Christians (such as Dembski, who appears here to be exhorting the readers of his blog to watch a pro-atheism filmâ¦ hm), I donât really see any particular reason to read them or really care about them much. Dembski: God's best gift to intelligent design - The Panda's Thumb
It had frequently been the practice of the Puritans to form certain assemblies, which they called "prophesyings;" where alternately, as moved by the spirit, they displayed their pious zeal in prayers and exhortations, and raised their own enthusiasm, as well as that of their audience, to the highest pitch, from that social contagion which has so mighty an influence on holy fervors, and from the mutual emulation which arose in those trials of religious eloquence. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I.
D. West exhorted her to receuye their sacrament, and to be aneled, for he said, she was stronge enough for it. & c. Vnto whom she aunswered, that she was able and stronge enough to receyue it in dede, but she would not, for that it is abhominable. & c.
The governor exhorted the prisoners not to riot.
To this exhortation, which seemed intended for her sole behoof, the lady answered by an inclination of her head, more humble than Captain A Legend of Montrose
The governor exhorted the prisoners not to riot.
He must ignore the exhortations to comment under those circumstances and if the media tears him apart, he must let them.
A list of the gravamina of the Churches and the clerics, discussed at the Council of Vienne (1311), contains ample proof of the abuse of authority to which the Church was subjected, and the writer of the poem "Avisemens pour le roy Loys," composed in 1315 for Louis X, exhorted this new king to live in peace with the Church, which Philip The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
The unsigned letter in the Weekender exhorts Martin Cadden to get the facts regarding who was or was not responsible for the introduction of service charges.
The first category sanctifies exhortation, rhetorical plainness, unadorned truth-telling; the second blesses ornate, elaborate eloquence, ludic loquaciousness.
Musically, Brown reached a plateau in the early 1970s when his band, the JBs, patented a muscular, jazzy funk, over which the group's leader could exhort and exclaim.
On Wednesday, Mr. Gates will be at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, where he plans to exhort wealthy donors—especially governments—to keep funding a range of crucial projects in the developing world, from tuberculosis drugs and antimalaria bed nets to maternal care and vaccines. Gates Urges Support for Global Health Programs
So saying, he exhorted Brown to be hasty in despatching his breakfast, as, ‘the frost having given way, the scent would lie this morning primely.’ Guy Mannering
Scripture exhorts us to praise God and we should keep this in mind when we approach this God in prayer.
Most have been part of the discussion for a long time, and it is hard to remain upbeat about recommendations that don't go beyond vague exhortations to improve things. Laurel Corona: Kids Serve Too: Watch out for the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Edwards also applies this truth to unbelievers with solemn warnings and exhortations.
Her regular newsletters to her team of escorts -- which are distressingly disrespectful, calling them "bimbos" and "damned fools" -- repeatedly exhorted the women to destroy any notes about the appointments, and to prevent clients from taking cell-phone pictures and videos during the session. A Meticulous Data Trail May Have Saved 'D.C. Madam'
She doesn't preach or exhort or alarm; she startles you into action.
Bishop's girnel or storehouse, keeping back the rioters by his exhortations, is a curious illustration of this point. Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets
There is a big note, enclosed in a box and titled Clinical Perspective, at the end of this study that exhorts doctors to consider this adherer effect when looking at data from observational studies. The adherer effect | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
However, we made up for it now by an outburst of indignation and resentment, especially violent on my part; whereupon, the sage Allie turned my own moral lecture, so lately delivered, upon myself, recalling my exhortations to the effect that we should be patient and forgiving with one so sorely afflicted as Matty Blair. Uncle Rutherford's Nieces A Story for Girls
There shouldn't be signs on the highway exhorting people to swim with the goddamned endangered manatees.
Jonathan, what I like most about RR is that he is full of enthusiasm and joy doing what he does, and is more than happy to try to exhort others to come play on his swingset. Audioblog for August 24, 2004
Ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto sons, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him; for whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and _scourgeth every son_ whom he receiveth. God's Plan with Men
Cassiodorus, the Praetorian praefect, is addressed to the maritime tribunes; and he exhorts them, in a mild tone of authority, to animate the zeal of their countrymen for the public service, which required their assistance to transport the magazines of wine and oil from the province of Istria to the royal city of Ravenna. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Because they want to cannibalize the unknown; to leave the chemicals, the furniture and, yes, the shrew behind; to make their way hi ho into the brush, whose weeds and lianas remain empty of the exhortations of Jesus Christ, whose roots and trunks have never felt the sappy coagulant candle-wax, whose steam rises solely from the exhalation of leaf and beast and man, and never from the bang of the Stanley engine. Ambitious
The essay exhorts women to cast off their servitude to husbands and priests.
The style of Haggai is consonant with his messages: pathetic in exhortation, vehement in reproofs, elevated in contemplating the glorious future. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
We live in exhortatory times. Globe and Mail
The whole piece is a moral exhortation, {parainesis}, and this passage particularly seems to be a reproof to man, who, while with his domestic animals he is curious to improve the race by employing always the finest male, pays no attention to the improvement of his own race, but intermarries with the vicious, the ugly, or the old, for considerations of wealth or ambition. Letters
Master's vineyard, she could slip on her bonnet and shawl and just run into the preaching service close by, and gather strength and encouragement from the earnest prayers and humble exhortations of those men whom God had found in the quarry, at the loom, in the mine, or at the lapstone, and sent forth Sunday by Sunday into the villages to preach a homely gospel to the poor, and comfort to His flock. Little Abe Or, The Bishop of Berry Brow
Based on it, the ancient exhorted us to transmit the key meaning only, and not to transmit the feeling fixed on it. A good missioner should adhere to this principle.
But repeated exhortations to stop reading in your bedroom, go outside and not be so anti-social do have an impact, particularly when you can see the logic behind them.
The first category sanctifies exhortation, rhetorical plainness, unadorned truth-telling; the second blesses ornate, elaborate eloquence, ludic loquaciousness.
Thirdly, that they that exhort and dehort, where they are required to give counsel, are corrupt counsellors and, as it were, bribed by their own interest. Leviathan
The climax of George Garrett's "Or Death and December," in which the speaker's puppy lifts a hind leg to pee for the first time during a frozen morning walk, might seem tailor-made to exhort and comfort parents working to potty-train their kids. Parenting And Poetry: Why I Taught My Four-Year-Olds To Recite Frost
Most evenings as I'm coming home from work, Steve is out in front of the store, jawing with anyone who'll give him a minute of his or her time, cussing up a storm, flirting with all the women, and exhorting everyone to go in and buy stuff.
The tone is solemn rather than exhortatory. Times, Sunday Times
The whole of the damnatory clause in the exhortation, from the word "unworthily" to "sundry kinds of death," is expunged. Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada
Note the form of the exhortation, 'exercise thyself _towards_ godliness,' which involves the same thought as is expressed in Paul's other utterance of irrepressible aspiration and effort, 'Not as if I had already attained, either were already perfect, but I follow after,' or as he had just said, 'press towards the mark,' in continual approximation to the ideal. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.
The constant topic of his exhortations was the necessity of parish schools. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
It ends with an exhortation for better communication from all to help establish interdisciplinary collaboration for the ultimate benefit of patients.
IV. vi.80 (450,3) Bear free and patient thoughts] To be melancholy is to have the mind _chained down_ to one painful idea; there is therefore great propriety in exhorting Glo'ster to _free thoughts_, to an emancipation of his soul from grief and despair. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
But exhort one another every day, whilst it is called to day, that none of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
Distant exhortation will have least effect where action is most needed.
I have destroyed the ring of the horizon and got out of the circle of objects," exhorted the Russian abstractionist Kasmir Malevich, "Comrade aviators, sail on into the depths. John Seed: "Basel Mural I" by Sam Francis: An Artist at the Height of His Powers
He described Divine Beauty as ‘neither philosophy nor theology, neither spiritual nor doctrinal, neither critical nor exhortative but rather a delighted dance of all these elements’.
The Beatitudes and other teachings in which Jesus exhorts his disciples to put all their trust in God have a special meaning in this context (Neyrey).
Clarity appears in those self-directed exhortations of the novelist to elucidate Raskolnikov's motive for murder.
With which wordes, diuers of the Romaines were displeased, and founde fault with Metellus who (for that he went about, to exhorte the people to mariage) ought not by any meanes, to confesse any griefes and incommodities to be in the same. The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
Addison always insisted that they said, "Dew-lip, Dew-lip; bill it, bill it, bill it;" -- the whole song being an exhortation of the robin to his mate whose name was _Dew-lip_, to get up and _bill it_ for worms. When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine
The small man in the ill-fitting suit suddenly grows large and becomes some no-neck union rep on a loading dock exhorting the working stiffs to the cause.
There is no exhortation to work by force of resolution, but through and by the inworking of God. Power From On High
This must be one of the most dispiriting exhortations ever issued by a political leader.
Manuals of chivalry exhorted the ideal man of arms to be temperate to preserve the fighting edge.
A fundamentalist church protesting a commencement address by Supreme Court Justice William Brennan hired a plane to tow a banner calling the jurist a "baby killer" and exhorting followers to pray for his death. I Pray the Lord Your Soul to Take
The essay exhorts women to cast off their servitude to husbands and priests.
Exhortation, and dehortation is counsel, accompanied with signs in him that giveth it of vehement desire to have it followed; or, to say it more briefly, counsel vehemently pressed. Leviathan
He would also exhort his children to read it, and laid great stress upon the utility of information.
The premier exhorted an economic reform.
He actually exhorts his patients to eat more by increasing their portions of vegetables, fruits, beans, and other high-fiber, low-calorie foods.
The sayings are in the form of proverbs, parables, aphorisms, and exhortations.
Likening the heart to soil, and the work of the Spirit to a farmer sowing seeds, Cairns exhorts his readers to break up the unploughed ground.
Which assertions, in spite of all qualifications of them, leave it unapprehensible what place can reasonably he left for addressing exhortations to the will, when it is not at all in its power to proceed to the performance of the thing to which it is exhorted, but solely in the power of him that exhorts. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.
His hands were slimed in blood as well, tracing signs on the door as he muttered prayers and exhortations.
Such exhortations are the railings of hypocrites who selfishly skewer non-believers with the power they all-the-time possess.
We have not directed the plan or treatment or scope of any essay; and my own editorial supervision has consisted merely in making detailed suggestions on smaller points, in exhorting contributors to be punctual and diligent, and generally revising what the New Testament calls jots and tittles. Cambridge Essays on Education
You can almost hear, watching their avidly gleeful faces, the exhortations of the stage manager to look more joyful.
Preach Bein season and out of season. Convince , rebuke , exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.
Look, I can already picture you rolling your eyes as your read this at least inwardly; and yes, I know I've said "look" twice now, and yes, I remember how you resent it when books take an "exhortative" tone with you . . . — but isn't it a half-knowing eye roll? Portland Vagabonder [Card #8: Strength] [WORK-IN-PROGRESS]
The band's first and most conventionally soul-like album, A Whole New Thing, was a flop, but the exhortative title song of album two, "Dance to the Music," became their first Top 10 hit, in 1968, and remains a party standard to this day. Sly Stone's Higher Power
PASTOR Michael Davis, of the Larose Christian Fellowship Church in Louisiana, finished his sermon, stripped down to his bathing trunks, exhorted the faithful to prepare for rebirth and stepped into the pool where he intended to baptise a dozen of his flock. The Writer’s Problem « The Graveyard
Recruited by the church to promote an increase in devotional practices, these women were exhorted to create spiritual havens for husbands and children, removed from the materialism of the outside world. Gutenber-e Help Page
She might simply never have been there at all, never crooked her fingers in midair when we made love, never called exhortations against my neck, never uttered hoarse cries for the light to be switched on … Finally I couldn't stand it and walked through the drizzle to the pub. The Vatican Rip
Hanc autem exhortacionem supplicacionem et preceptum tu, fili ceterique successores nostri prestanti animo complere curetis, si nostram benedictionem habere velitis, una cum benedictione filii summi Regis, qui filios docuit patrum voluntates in bono perficere, asserens in mundum se venisse non ut suam voluntatem faceret sed paternam. The Abbot
The big man repeatedly exhorts his fans to be leaders not followers, but like good followers, they obey his every word.
Paradoxically, there is a preacherly tone to his exhortations that, now more than ever, celebrate and justify secularism and non-belief.
Since a seagull never speaks back to the council flock, Jonathan's voice was raised in exhortation: Irresponsibility, my brothers? The End of the Work Ethic
-- whether he should follow after that way of life to which you exhort me, and act what you call the manly part of speaking in the assembly, and cultivating rhetoric, and engaging in public affairs, according to the principles now in vogue; or whether he should pursue the life of philosophy; -- and in what the latter way differs from the former. Gorgias
It could serve as an exhortation to fully immerse oneself in worthy subjects, to learn and allow others to learn.
Police exhorted the crowd to remain calm.
Believers are exhorted to render obedience to God by witnessing to His divinity, and to the Prophet by bearing witness to his prophetship; this is The Faith of Islam
Spurred by government exhortations to get fit, reduce congestion and save the environment, commuters are abandoning car for two wheels as never before.
O-Tar was exhorting his warriors to attack, when a bloody and disheveled padwar burst into the chamber through a side entrance. The Chessmen of Mars
We were planted firmly in the armchairs of honour and exhorted not to move. KANDAHAR COCKNEY: A Tale of Two Worlds
We were planted firmly in the armchairs of honour and exhorted not to move. KANDAHAR COCKNEY: A Tale of Two Worlds
That which is suited to the carrying on of men in the state and condition whereunto they are called, according to the mind of God, as also to prevail with them to whom the word doth come to enter into the state of obedience and walking with God; and this is usually branched into three general heads, of promises, exhortations, and threatenings. The Doctrine of the Saints�� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
Moral consequentialism exhorts us to choose between different modes of life as well as different choices within each mode.
At length on his name being announced when a literary gentleman, particularly conversant in rural economy, happened to be present, the poem was formally re-examined, and its general aspect excited the risibility of that gentleman in so pointed a manner, that Bloomfield was called into the room, and exhorted not to waste his time, and neglect his employment, in making vain attempts, and particularly in treading on the ground which Letter 388
Machiavelli's suggestion, for example, that a prince "not deviate from what is good, if possible, but be able to do evil if constrained," must be appreciated in context. 140 Although political and military leaders were exhorted to virtues of constancy and temperance, the late quattrocento (and early cinquecento) was not a juste milieu, as Machiavelli illustrates: Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
She exhorts parents to teach their young that there is beauty and strength in diversity.
Where the Tories will "exhort" corporations to be "socially responsible", Labour can provide a tough framework for balancing companies 'desire for profits with the needs of ordinary people. The Cruddas manifesto
Likening the heart to soil, and the work of the Spirit to a farmer sowing seeds, Cairns exhorts his readers to break up the unploughed ground.
Through several bromidic chapters, she exhorts us to resist the temptations of the "Midlife Industrial Complex"—the cosmetic surgeons, the manufacturers of Cleopatra's 24K-gold skin cream, botox and Restalyne—that try to turn middle age into a disease in need of a cure. Old Enough to Know Better
The party leader exhorted his members to start preparing for government.
Footage from TheCall San Diego, taken November 1, 2008 by video documentarist Michael W. Wilson [author of Silhouette City] shows Engle and his disciples exhorting a Qualcomm stadium crowd to acts of Christian martyrdom against legalized abortion: rhetoric that serve as thinly veiled exhortation towards violent acts of terrorism against abortion clinics and abortion providers. Bruce Wilson: Anti-Gay Marriage Pro-Prop 8 Leader Called For Antiabortion Martyrs
And some pious neighbors, earnestly exhorting him to solemn concern and preparation, could not make him understand, we repeat with emphasis, _understand_ why there was occasion for any extraordinary disturbance of mind. An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance
He said that all the religions and great divine personalities always exhorted people to promote peace, love and tolerance.
The HRW message is a legalistic apology that straightforwardly backtracks on what was probably a proforma attempt at even-handness — and explictly adopts the Counterpunch/Norman Finkelstein view that Barud was merely a guy exhorting others to Gandhian nonviolence. The Volokh Conspiracy » Are Human Rights Watch Officials Just Thin-Skinned? (No!):
The primary virtue that Princeton tried to instill, in exhortation after exhortation, was courage. The Organization Kid
So you see ace cricketers and glamorous movie stars exhorting you to buy such and such product because it improves their smile or turns their skin to dewy softness or whatever.
Technically, Hemingway offered Dietrich a dehortation, a rarely used but quite proper English term compared to an exhortation, which attempts to persuade people to do something, a dehortation is an attempt to dissuade people from a course of action. 'Neverisms': 11 Things You Should Never Do, Never Say, Never Forget (PHOTOS)
There were many of God's people in Corinth yet unreached with the gospel, and Paul was exhorted to go and preach there that by their faithful response they might be found.
It’s that time of year — the High Holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur on the Jewish calendar — when my inbox gets filled with exhortations from the philo-semites of the evangelical world who believe these holidays foretell the time when we Jews will be blinded by the light at Armageddon and become followers of Jesus. 09 « October « 2008 « Niqnaq
Once, Englishmen took Henry V's exhortations to martial self-sacrifice as inspiring.
The book is essentially an exhortation to religious tolerance.
Exhorting him to breathe deeply they paraded him up and down beside the wire fence.
If God doth immediately and irresistibly incline or move the wills of the saints to do the things which accompany perseverance, the said exhortations can be no means of effecting this perseverance; for the will, being physically and irresistibly acted and drawn by God to do such and such things, needeth no addition of moral means, such as exhortations are (if they be any), in order hereunto. The Doctrine of the Saints�� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
He there exhorts us to hear with patience and humility those, however they be miscalled, that desire to live purely, in such a use of Gods ordinances, as the best guidance of their conscience gives them, and to tolerate them, though in some disconformity to ourselves. Paras 20-33
Several of the mestizo's friends were supporting him, mainly with their physical presence, although they became vocally exhortative from time to time. Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
It matters little that the teacher exhorts; the unmotivated students become discouraged quickly, they quit, and become our failures.
The exhortation is ironical, as in Jer 46: 4, 9. 15. thy valiant men -- manuscripts, the Septuagint, and Vulgate read, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Ramboesgue in berets and ammunition belts, several young black males exhorted hundreds of young white females to contribute money to Bobby Seale's defense fund. Feminism's Identity Crisis
Rashleigh and I stared in silence at this unexpected intruder, who proceeded to exhort us alternately: --- ` ` Do you, Maister Francis, opine that ye will re-establish your father's credit by cutting your kinsman's thrapple, or getting your ain sneckit instead thereof in the College-yards of Glasgow? Rob Roy
The young man, wearing a tweed jacket, pink shirt, green baseball cap, khaki trousers, tan trainers and a glaikit expression, seemed to think his loud exhortations were very clever indeed.
It involves rules and precepts - the do's and don'ts of life with others - as well as explicit instructions, exhortations, and training.
Without action, teaching is merely verbalism and amounts to exhorting the farmers to do this or that without showing them how to do it and thus has limited impact on their farming practices. Chapter 7
I’m glad to see you exhorting people to hew a line of polite discourse; my continual drumbeat is that despite people’s radically different concepts of proper governance, the role of the media, what constitutes reality, and the definitions of a whole host of terms, there’s no excuse for not being polite to one another. Think Progress » Wolfowitz: No WMD, No War
My problem with today's liturgical bureaucracy is that it advances measurable technical goals at the same time it diminishes the more essential immeasurable exhortative ones at the heart of EACW.
It exhorts viewers to fight against divisive forces that disrupt the peace of a nation, says Sundar.
This indeed is not to exhort, but to dissuade and dehort by The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2
As much as Tocqueville owes to Enlightenment insights, his work belongs, as well, to the counter-Enlightenment strain of the liberal tradition — impressionistic and exhortative, idealistic in its use of types and fatalistic in its approach to history, sentimental both in its portrayal of a declining aristocracy and in its invocation of the turbulent United States as a manner of natural order. The Visitor
It was "sung, chanted, recited, and used in exhortation and prayer on the eve of battle. Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910
The police exhorted the villagers to keep away from the influence of alcohol and illicit distilled arrack in the interest of their health.
Their ears do not hear our exhortation to dedication. Christianity Today
To overcome these obstacles requires more than good intentions, sermons, and exhortations. MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices
When, therefore, he was exhorted to rap on the little girl's door, he gave sundry noisy, gleeful thumps, – pounding with both fists, and alternating with a rhythmical kick of the cowhide boots, calling out in stentorian tones: Come, little un, – time you 's up. Oldtown Folks
So their brand name is nothing less than an imperative exhortation to those struggling with their conscience to simply give in to it: go ahead!
The essay exhorts women to cast off their servitude to husbands and priests.
Besides many pious foundations, he engraved on rocks and pillars throughout his empire in true Achaemenid-style edicts in vernacular Prakrit exhorting respect for animal life, reverence, and truth, and appointed censors to enforce these injunctions. C. Early Civilizations and Classical Empires of South and East Asia

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