Sentences with phrase «prodding by»

After an apparent prodding by the regulator the company issued a second announcement at the end of the trading day with extra information about the move.

But after prodding by lawmakers, the Federal Bureau of Investigation is conducting a preliminary review.»

Despite decades of poking and prodding by scientists, only now has the continent revealed its hidden snow aquifer.

Prodding by SamMobile has revealed that some users were facing random reboots -LSB-...]

Despite prodding by reporters, FES and Success have not offered any specific policy solutions to what they characterize as the city's school violence crisis.

The actress said «yes» — after some prodding by «Friends With Benefits» co-star Justin Timberlake.

After some prodding by wife Mary, I decided to take a class to improve my golf game.

The first steps toward the international move began about 15 years ago with some gentle prodding by a group of leading international reporters — from New Scientist, The Economist, Nature and The Guardian — who had been urging an expansion of the program.

Trump's apparent pivot away from his calls for mass deportations of millions of undocumented immigrants is partially the result of prodding by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, according to former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

While Gov. Andrew Cuomo controls the MTA and the state Legislature is supposed to provide oversight, Albany has been notably missing in action as riders have endured one disastrous commute after another — even in the face of more regular prodding by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and others.

Milliken, however, refused to characterize Cuomo's proposal as a cut, despite repeated prodding by lawmakers from both parties during a hearing in Albany.

Consider that this proposition, after decades of prodding by good - government groups, was drawn up by a legislature whose fundamental purpose is to maintain its majorities.

But after some good - natured prodding by Maher, Spitzer relented and agreed that full legalization would indeed be the best way to go.

Guess what he did (with some prodding by Jennings):

In fact, once it was baked, it slid nicely around the dutch oven without any prodding by me.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has agreed to meet President Trump for a landmark summit on the border separating the Koreas after some prodding by the South Korean president,...

Additionally, as the nature of work continues to change, prodded by technological advances that maximize worker efficiency at the expense of regular work schedules, more workers are seeking supplementary income.

It has been men, who have been prodded by God ever since to smarten up.

Stirred by the steady stream of feminist literature which has caused a revolution in Western society, and prodded by the more liberal wing of the church which opened up the discussion on the ordination of women twenty or more years ago, contemporary evangelicals have become increasingly interested in reevaluating the role of women.

Prodded by Jean - Luc Godard's provocative film Hail Mary, Janet Karsten Larson meditates on the annunciation to Mary and the theme of embodiment.

There will even be times when we act because we are prodded by guilt.

Wow, I went gluten free last September after years of illness and being poked and prodded by all sorts of doctors.

Prodded by imminent defectors, Modell finally gives up.

Dominique Wilkins, buoyed and prodded by his bride, overcame a torn Achilles tendon and is soaring again for the Hawks

Your baby will be given to you immediately instead of being whisked away to a warming table to be prodded by strangers.

Do you want something lightweight enough that your child can learn to maneuver it without you having to worry about your baby getting poked and prodded by the utensil in the process?

And, if she feels that she's being poked and prodded by the medical community, then again I would say it is her responsibility to find a doctor or midwife that better suits her and will still give her baby (and her) good medical care.

However, instead of offering struggling school districts more resources like needed equipment, training and technical assistance, Congressional Republicans, prodded by the SNA and their cronies in the food and drink industry, decided to offer them a waiver.

The Naperville Park District is poised to reopen Sportsman's Park next month, prodded by trapshooting fans who complain they have been deprived for the more than two years it has been closed.

Prodded by mothers tired of being asked to adjourn to a bathroom while nursing in a public space, six states have recently passed laws giving a woman the right to breast - feed wherever she «is otherwise authorized to be.»

TOTENBERG: Prodded by Chief Justice John Roberts, Kagan said repeatedly that Congress was justified in banning corporate spending in candidate elections because corporate money is other people's money.

Siragusa faced questions during an hour - plus hearing whether he was prodded by Poloncarz to seek the legal opinion about Lorigo.

After being prodded by the state Board of Elections» new enforcement counsel, Republican John Cahill's campaign has made public a poll it commissioned on the race for state attorney general.

And de Blasio is doing so as Cuomo finds himself prodded by other liberal Democrats, too: Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who once responded with timidity to Cuomo's efforts to undercut him, recently ridiculed Cuomo's attempts at ethics reform as «tinkering around the edges» and proposed his own ethics agenda.

Prodded by Cuomo, LIRR union leaders and MTA negotiators reached a tentative deal in the four - year - long contract battle that averts a strike and for the first time requires all workers to pay for health care.

When prodded by City Hall, local elected officials will still say plenty of nice things about the mayor, and bolster his record with the kinds of words that should, if heard by enough ears, improve Mr. de Blasio's standing.

About five years ago, prodded by the memory of his nephew's misfortune, Bookstein studied the brain scans of 14 schizophrenics and 14 non-schizophrenic volunteers, or «controls,» that had been gathered together by his colleague John DeQuardo.

At the same time, governments and institutions (prodded by employers) are raising standards for what students should know at every stage of school.

Prodded by Stone over the course of two years, Putin confronts a host of critical topics in candid detail, including his long - term grip on power, his personal relationships with Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump, Edward Snowden's asylum in Moscow, as well as allegations of election meddling and fostering turmoil in Syria.

Perhaps prodded by the success of Austin Powers and what someone thought was a funny script instead comes across as blandly directed, broad - based, overacted farce, an embarrassment for anyone associated with it.

Animals are mistreated by humans, including in the sport of bull fighting where they are taunted, prodded by spears and threatened with swords.

But prodded by some favorable reviews and word of mouth, audiences embraced The Graduate wholeheartedly, particularly the huge boomer audience that had started to wield its enormous box - office clout.

Now, this inhuman prisoner is being abused with an electrified cattle prod by an agent named Strickland (Michael Shannon, making the pain inside his glare speak volumes), who calls the prod his «Alabama how - dee - doo» and sees the monster as a freakish affront to God.

Later, Fonda was prodded by King to reveal details of her relationship with record producer Richard Perry.

Pursued by homicide detective (Frank Langella) and prodded by «The Trickster» (T. Ryder Smith) who materializes into his room, Michael is torn between the worlds of good and evil, of reality and fantasy and, ultimately, life and death.»

Prowling corridors, clutching a stiff cattle prod by his side one can't help but think he may be compensating for something.

The Cosmic Cube — an interstellar MacGuffin / source of infinite power that just handily happens to fit inside an attaché case — is being poked and prodded by SHIELD scientists under the beady eye of Sam Jackson's Agent Nick Fury.

Nixon (Frank Langella, marvelous), prodded by his literary agent (Toby Jones) accepts for two reasons: 1) The skilled orator Nixon can walk all over the lightweight journalist and perhaps win back some respect, and 2) Frost has agreed to pay.

Prodded by Bill Gates, Eli Broad, and other veteran private - sector reformers, the Obama administration has lent unexpectedly forceful support to such causes as common standards, better assessments, charter schools, merit pay, refurbished teacher preparation, and the removal of ineffective instructors.

Under present day standards and accountability systems, states, pushed and prodded by the federal government, have moved from trying to force districts to educate students to a minimum level of basic skills and to do something about schools that are obviously failing, to holding districts, schools and teachers accountable for (in the words of the Common Core State Standards Initiative) «preparing all students for success in college, career, and life.»