I do: early in 2005, some colleagues in the news media urged me, in effect, to give up.

- that his colleagues quickly urged him to talk less about himself and spend more time addressing the client's needs.

"We did think it was a good time to offer a proposal because colleagues and allies urged us to do so," one administration official said.

Several friends and colleagues had urged William to commit Dorothy to an asylum.

Because he was short on publications, his colleagues urged him to write up any ideas he had just to satisfy the administration.

For the 53-year old jurist it was a rare respite, the kind of break his colleagues urged him to take.

Ms. Harvey and her colleagues urged state officials to start competitive procedures.

His colleagues in Romania urged him to leave the country and work for religious freedom from a location less personally dangerous.

The second, as my colleague has urged, is the curious fact that we cannot find a single victim of these alleged outrages to speak for himself.

I hope that, in the spirit of common democratic values, my Latvian colleagues will urge their government to eliminate this form of discrimination.