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Still, she delivered some Kirkian tough love when she urged the audience to use their unattached time to seek self-improvement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Prime Minister Donald Tusk has urged Kyiv to look for solutions: "If not, it will mean that not empathy but hard business will determine our relations."

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

It also urged the agency to publish an assessment of possible bias stemming from lower response rates, a process already underway.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

He stuck to his guns last September when Wall Street was going the other way and urged investors to stay the course in March as the Iran conflict was in its early days.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026

A friend, J. L. Chestnut Jr., who would eventually become Selma’s first black lawyer, urged Lafayette to go home, but he refused.

From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman