His father, who had briefly attempted an acting career without much success, urged his son not to go.
"Then one of the boys, here," urged his son.
He also urged his son to secure letters of introduction at all stages.
The mother of the thief urges her son to find a way to retrieve the body of his brother.
Guida's father had urged his son to become a shoemaker.
Mr. Edmundson urged his son, then 25 with a young wife and a baby daughter, to "stay safe."
Scrawled on the book's back page was a note from his grandmother urging her son to continue the tradition.
He urged his students and his son to join the Iranian forces.
His father had been a successful engineer who urged his son to find legitimate work.
Zenawi says he had urged his son - the second child of 13 and whose real first name is Legesse - to be a doctor.