Sentences with phrase «goads for»

School funding is one of the goads for Cuomo and lawmakers to take action on a final budget plan soon: The majority of districts are required to put their annual budgets before voters in mid-May.

McCarthy uses Nichols» film as a goad for his actors - who include a Liz Taylor lookalike - in developing the hours and hours of frightening video footage from two deranged performances, which are projected around the walls.

Perhaps suspecting his homosexuality but by no means willing to accept it, she goaded him for years to «act like a man» and ridiculed his high - pitched voice.

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He says, «Companies almost always overpay for their targets, hurting their shareholders and enriching few except the CEOs who do deals and the investment bankers who goad them into the next must - have merger.»

The biggest lesson is one they probably already know: if you work for professional cads like Dov Charney or Tucker Max, it is eminently possible to goad bloggers into calling your boss a jerk.

- The company has already reached 70 % (7,000 employees) of its 10,000 - employee commitment for hiring «opportunity youth» (unemployed young people who are not in school) as well as being 25 % of the way toward its even more ambitious 100,000 opportunity youth hiring goal, the 100,000 Opportunities Initiative, that Starbucks successfully goaded other corporate giants (Target, Walmart, etc.) to join in.

For this reason, among others, some necessary goads never find their target.

But Michelangelo and others like him have through their labors — sometimes as goads, sometimes as nails, sometimes as scribblers in the sand, helped turn us from the world's frivolities and given us time for such reflection.

For writers, I have learned, there is a time to be a goad and a time to be a firmly embedded nail.

As a result of the brief, violent moment of crisis in which it became conscious at once of its creative power and of its critical faculties, humanity has quite legitimately become hard to move: no stimulus at the level of mere instinct or blind economic necessity will suffice for long to goad it into moving onwards.

The essence of this, he wrote, «lies in the conviction which a Christian man possesses that every goad thing in him, every good thing he does, is somehow not wrought by himself but by God».23 Paul, for example, said, «By the grace of God I am what I am» (1 Cor.

If a man bury the body of a dog or a man in the earth and not disinter it for half a year, he shall be beaten with five hundred stripes with a goad.

To look backward again for a moment, after the first world war the hunger blockade imposed on Germany and kept up for several months after Germany had surrendered was one of the things that made the German spirit rankle until it could be goaded into a second world war.

I too prefer to have an actual dialogue with people here, but when the insults begin I recognize them for what they are, an attempt to divert the discussion away from the facts, and divert it goading us into behaving badly.

Granted, perfection is unattainable, but like the holy grail it must be sought, if for no other reason than that the quest itself is a goad, pushing the earnest...

For the entertainment of the visitors the insane were goaded to rage by being prodded with sticks.

Each person may be summoned to tasks which seem beyond his or her capability — tasks such as a sojourn through sorrow, a struggle to define the nature of goad and evil, the quest for joy.

Granted, perfection is unattainable, but like the holy grail it must be sought, if for no other reason than that the quest itself is a goad, pushing the earnest reader to the library or the bookstore.

This claim is frequently presented, whether implicitly or explicitly, as a correlative to the idea that Christianity often as personified by Jesus or less frequently by Paul - was «goad» for women, paid them particular attention, or at least offered them opportunities not otherwise available, to caricature, the ideal of «the Feminist Jesus».60 In an admirable and scholarly article Leonard Swidler has marshaled historical evidences to show convincingly that Jesus was a Feminist.61 The politics of such a view is self - evident, for much study of the subject has developed within a context where women were struggling to establish a proper role for themselves within the contemporary church; to this end they have sought an egalitarian past to act as model for present polity.62

From the moment they regained consciousness in the hospital, they were goaded to get up and move, if not by their devoted «physical terrorists,» then by one group after another that organizes sporting events for the disabled: the Wounded Warrior Project, Disabled Sports USA, the Achilles Track Club, U.S. Paralympics.

He's goaded him with trash talking — Floyd has to try to knock him out because if he doesn't it would be shameful for the sport of boxing and for Floyd's fiftieth win.

During his summer stint with the Piedmont Boll Weevils, the Philadelphia Phillies» Class A team in Kannapolis, N.C., Williams allowed teammates to goad him into striking the Heisman stance while posing for his baseball card.

For months Hamilton had left goading messages on Cole's cellphone.

I'm sure the Preds would love to goad him into a fight and get him off the ice for a major penalty.

It didn't take long for the others to goad the 6» 3», 310 - pound Tomlinson into facing off with Robinson.

Oscar should be ashamed for that BS, and the rest of there whiney, punk ass players should be universally reprimanded for goading the ref into that ridiculous, game changing call.

While it's yet to be confirmed by UEFA themselves, ITV Football are reporting this afternoon that Platini and his minions are expected to take action over an extremely sorry excuse for a banner which appeared among the Bayern Munich fans during last night's Champions League game against Arsenal which, we can only assume, was intended to goad or target Mesut Ozil in some shape or form.

When we realized that «stimulation» wasn't what my boobs needed to be goaded into making more milk, we just used a bottle for the formula... and I won't lie, I was grateful to be rid of the SNS.

As Leave campaigners looked for a statesmanlike message, the leading Brexiteer was goaded into song.

It could prompt Libyans to decisively unite against the extremists and nonstate actors in their midst while also goading the U.S. to increase capacity - building assistance to the Libyan people — helping them construct the requisite institutions for a democratic and prosperous future.

The upshot: He believes Fred Dicker purposesly goaded the candidate into the near - fight, knowing full well Paladino was upset with The Post for trying to take pictures of the 10 - year - old daughter he fathered out of wedlock.

How much would Cameron enjoy the opportunity to goad the Eds with the spectre of Brown's ghost loitering palely around the arras as they try to present a new beginning for Labour?

The GOP presidential nominee engaged in «political gymnastics,» the NYT reporters write, adding: «In the space of a few hours on Wednesday, Mr. Trump veered from avoiding a clash with Mr. Peña Nieto over his proposal for a border wall to goading an Arizona crowd into chants about constructing the barrier.»

As federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York he hit hard at both parties, taking down former Democratic Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos, the former Republican State Senate majority leader, and often reveled in the spotlight as he gleefully goaded those accused of corruption or graft.

Terry Bernardo, chairwoman of the county legislature for two years, sat quietly rereading her acceptance speech as the convention wound down toward adjournment before goading her nominators into acting.

After voicing her disapproval of the mayor's panda policy, Maloney — with no goading from Catsimatidis — went off on de Blasio's efforts to ban horse - drawn carriages in Central Park, saying Hizzoner lacks a flair for romance.

And tomorrow he will use a major speech to hail the recovery and goad Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls for claiming that the economy was «flatlining».»

Instead, she has tried to goad Gov. Andrew Cuomo into launching a broad - based inquiry to search for solutions.

The researchers also infected pregnant mice that had the receptor for type I interferons with a viral mimic — a bit of genetic material that goads the body to begin its antiviral immune response — to see if the damage happened only during a Zika infection.

«In the next decade there's going to be a lot of renewable energy built, and all that has to go somewhere,» said Jessica Goad, an energy and climate change policy fellow for The Wilderness Society.

It therefore presents another awkward but workable opportunity for cultural compromise — for scientists to stop the goading and for people who care about whether the self is «special» to recognize that there's no threat from science.

The summer sun is finally here, goading us to relax by the pool, take exercise outdoors and hit the highway for weekend road trips.

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When we meet her, Eve is living apart from Adam in Tangier trying to stir up some controversy in the mortal world by goading her friend, fellow immortal Kit Marlowe (John Hurt), into dusting off the Shakespearian authorship debate just for a bit of entertainment.

Distasteful touches goad the squeamish: one Swiftian subplot involves meat injected with celebrity cells for human consumption.

Together they have some likeable, albeit predictably outlined chemistry, but at least strike the appropriate balance necessary for goading audience investment in their universe.

«I long for a little naivete, but there's none around,» the highly cynical filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder remarked in an interview in the 1970s; a comparable sentiment apparently goaded Thomas into making this willfully innocent movie.

For both Judge Anderson and Judge Dredd, there comes a moment where they could have easily been killed by a bad guy standing over them, but Dredd and Anderson instead goad their attackers into hackneyed super-villain type banter until someone can show up to save the day.

At the end of the episode, Lydia goads Beetlejuice into admitting he was worried about his friend all along, further neutering the character for a child audience.

As with much of Payne's work, you're never sure whether the director is goading you into pitying his beaten - down characters or feeling affection for them — a tension that's long produced a bittersweetness often mistaken for outright misanthropy.