PA. Condoleezza Rice, the American secretary of state, was due to visit this week to urge restraint on Israel.
Obama traveled repeatedly outside Washington to rally Americans to urge Congress to act on both fronts, but with questionable results.
Elections focus minds, however, and Mr Blair himself was at great pains to urge voters on May 3 to back the man who he himself had tried to stop from becoming Welsh Labour leader.
Later, the President will host an event at the White House to discuss the importance of the agreement passed by Congress to extend the payroll tax cut and unemployment insurance and to urge Congress to build on the success of the agreement by taking additional steps to create jobs, grow the economy and help the middle class.
It was a Champions League thriller between Real Madrid and Manchester United in April 2003 that was said to have first triggered his urge to splurge on a football team.
Ministers decided to ask the European Commission for fewer restrictions on state aid, and to ask central banks to urge greater transparency on the balance books of banks in their countries, Lagarde said.
Delegation is a perennial coaching issue because most people struggle with it. (For my best delegation tips, refer back to my earlier post.) However, no matter how tempted you may be, resist the urge to take on work to be expeditious.
The urge to break rules, after all, depends on the urge to make rules.
Like all committed collectors, whether of van Goghs or novelty salt and pepper shakers, I prefer to look back on my urge to accumulate as passionate, as opposed to pathological.
Marc Lasry made headlines during the 2011 debt crisis, when he met with lawmakers from both parties to urge a compromise on the debt ceiling.
The Free Church of Scotland said it has taken an "unprecedented step" to write to MSPs to urge a rethink on who manages sporting rights on Raasay.
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But despite Ireland's late onslaught at the Millennium Stadium, Gatland resisted the urge to send on veteran Jones from the bench to see Wales home, leaving the 33-year-old stuck on 98 Wales caps.
There always comes a moment in a Springsteen concert, as there always did with James Brown, when he plays out a dumb show of the conflict between exhaustion and the urge to go on.
Given that interest rates likely have nowhere to go but up, LaBonte and other analysts urge investors to focus on MLPs that have been consistently enlarging their dividends, such as Kinder Morgan Energy Partners ( see table).
We can only urge them to look to how they would feel in our position and urge them to put pressure on their own board to ensure the excellent long-term reputation of their club is not diminished by the leadership of one board.
Rupert Murdoch's daughter Elisabeth has used a speech to voice her support for the BBC and urge the media to focus on morals as well as profit.
Now the World Health Organization wants to weigh in on the issue, but the Bush Administration is reportedly sitting on the United Nations agency's report which calls on individuals to modify their diets, but also wants governments to use taxes and subsidies to urge them to do so, and suggests restrictions on advertising of certain foods.
In two conference speeches on Friday and Saturday, Mr Farage will urge the UKIP to build on its performances and delegates will also debate issues including the abolition of ID cards, the economic crisis and immigration.
Yours is the one that will have to predominate of course, but the weight that I put on it, I urge you to at least evaluate as you begin to level your weight on the evidence that has been presented.
And I really would urge Apple to get on with publishing the correct apology.
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Before marriage, parents stress the importance of settling down and urge them to focus on finding suitable mates.
He went on to urge both the Scottish and UK governments to "work together" ahead of the referendum.
Mr Seilliere went on to urge EU leaders to "resist national protectionism in order to avoid a negative domino effect".
Fight the urge to flake out on your current job and spend your time finishing critical projects and tying up loose ends.
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And he joined with his counterparts in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland to urge a total ban on smacking - as there is in 20 other countries.
We look forward to Apple's evaluation of our iPref idea and we encourage fellow shareholders to urge Apple to unlock the significant value residing on its balance sheet.
Babel, the urge to pray focuses on different religions in New York, some practiced by various immigrant communities and others where the majority of the faithful are Americans.
Since Congress did not act last year on this proposal, I am introducing it in this year's budget -- and I once again urge Congress to act on it.
When the companies explain their urge to merge today on a conference call, investors will probably be most concerned about how much the deal will drag on Amgen's earnings.
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