Sentences with phrase «kelci goad»

The combination of security and temporary nature of changes might just goad the private sector to awaken a little from its slumber.

I like having someone peer in on me periodically; it goads me into action.

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.

While growing up, many of us were encouraged to dream big and allow our dreams to goad us into doing something great with our lives.

- 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.

And that's not the only way that our smartphones goad our unfaithful tendencies.

No matter how often my brain goes AWOL I have to goad it into performing.

-- Dr. Chester Goad, Tennessee Technological University

Because Walmart very deliberately goaded Target into dropping their prices.

In the part of the episode where Lacie views the apartment of her dreams, she's shown a virtual reality scene of herself making dinner in the kitchen with a lover — and it's this romantic vision that seems to goad her into pursuing the 4.5 rating.

Instead, Adams pitched a plan to have Coca - Cola goad fashion labels into making products with recycled material.

Tangerine could still keep Canadian banking back on its heels and goad it into being better.

These days, Albertans are in the middle of a prolonged interjurisdictional peacetime, and not just because Notley has opted to be less confrontational with fellow premiers and the federal Liberals (she does get into spats with her right - leaning neighbour, Saskatchewan's Brad Wall, but he's been goading).

«You can goad him and he makes his positions bigger,» Hempton said.

The problem I have with this analysis (besides my usual disagreement with the assumption that we want to goad investors to be more active) is that «stewardship» is just one form of agency problem in the institutional investor context.

Emcees had to impugn patrons» masculinity to goad them to the stage so that Daniels could flip them onto their backs and lower herself onto their noses.

Robin Goad is a professional geologist with 30 years of experience in the mining and exploration industries.

Yvan Allaire has a great analysis of Dow Jones» overreaction to Snapchat's IPO and the dual class stock phenomenon in general:» In July 2017, Dow Jones, goaded by the reaction to Snapchat having gone public with a class of shares without voting rights, announced that, after extensive consultation, it had decided to henceforth eliminate companies -LSB-...]

She says Obama has shown that he's willing to act, when necessary, «but he's not going to escalate this to a crisis just because Romney and Netanyahu are trying to goad him.

In the final analysis, the sharpest goads and the sturdiest nails merely add to the burdensome accumulation of human creation.

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

He likes to goad but he is really a good man wanting to make us think about the fallacies in our own thought.

Yet our country provokes them to constantly to goad them to retaliate to facilitate war on them.

Sometimes goads have little effect.

Then, in a sentence packed with mixed metaphors, the Teacher concludes, «The words of the wise are like goads, their collected sayings like firmly embedded nails — given by one Shepherd.»

Some are called to be prophetic goads, and some giants may hammer in firmly embedded nails.

That goad the authoritarian leader could not tolerate, and Jara was eventually shot and killed.

Protestant clergy, far from urging humility, goaded the country forward.

Goads cause enough discomfort to get animals — or people — to do something they otherwise might not do.

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.

Jesus left us relatively few words — a person could memorize them all — and he spoke with such economy and precision that each can be seen as a goad and a nail.

She wrote a novel instead, Uncle Tom's Cabin, that sold 200,000 copies in its first year and, as much as any other force, goaded a nation toward change.

In such works as Idea of a Christian Society, After Strange Gods, and Notes Towards the Definition of Culture, he turned away from firmly embedded nails and toward goads.

At the same time, I have increasingly come to see the limitations of a goading art.

Do we not end up goading mostly one another?

And there was Jonah, the reluctant goad who, much to his own dismay, brought all Nineveh to its knees.

The prophets of the Bible similarly served as goads.

The communists thought (fatally, as it turned out) he might be a goad they could control.

There is a time to be a goad, and, many examples show, we should not underestimate the effect of the arts in bringing about change.

There is a time to be a goad and a time to be a nail.

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

There is a time to be a goad, and a time to be a firmly embedded nail.

More goading me into researching your theories on how we existed outside of time and are the actual vessel or cause of this «original sin» separate from all of creation?

Giving to the Church is good, and we should give whatever we can... without being goaded to do so, lest we become Protestantized Jews.

And throughout American history, this belief has served as a goad to the conscience, inspiring reforms and renewal in almost every generation.

This irresponsibility in the name of putatively superior moral intentions and sensibilities has gotten worse in recent years, having been goaded to hitherto unimaginable extremes by the distorting psychological impact of what the American left has considered an illegitimate presidency since December 12, 2000.

Many of the states affected by human - caused earthquakes have acknowledged the phenomenon, but, as The New York Times notes, «state regulators around the country have not gone as far in controlling industry practices as environmental groups have asked, and there is little sign that the new federal findings will goad them to go farther.»

There may or may not be a God, but if there is, I sure hope he (or she or it) does not go around raising up killers, plying them with semiautomatic weapons, goading them to target practice, encouraging them to plot mass killings and cheering them on as they shoot multiple bullets into screaming 6 - and 7 - year - old children.

The efforts of the denomination to prevent this, led and goaded by its evangelicals, are creating tensions that may lead to schism.