Sentences with phrase «if prodded»

If prodded, I will produce a mandolin.

Maybe, if prodded, I'd give it a shot again just to see if I could eat everything on my plate eventually, but it's probably for the best for both my health and my dignity if I don't.

If they prodded that would be more with a blunt - ended stick.

In fact, if you prod your abdomen, your baby will squirm in response, although you won't be able to feel it.

If you prod the accelerator, there's a delay as the transmission figures out what you want and downshifts to a lower gear, then another delay as the turbocharger builds up the boost.

If he prods you for more attention, ignore him.

Not exact matches

As he prodded the prime minister, Nye, best known as the host of the 1990s PBS show «Bill Nye the Science Guy,» and more recently for the Netflix series «Bill Nye Saves the World,» cited a study by a group called The Solutions Project that concluded Canada could live entirely without fossil fuels if it fully embraced renewable energy sources.

Still, if Tribune's major shareholders aren't convinced of his go - it - alone strategy, they could prod Ferro to strike a deal with Gannett, Doctor said.

If you want to develop an opinion that holds water, you need to poke and prod it from all angles to ensure it's water tight.

If people prod, s / he can tell them that s / he thinks such things should be private.

However, they sense that meaning, but doubt; so, they prod and provoke to generate 1) either a temporal response which satisfies them temporarily, or 2) hope beyond hope that «if there were a god», God will show them the error of their approach.

Or he «helps» his partner carry feedsacks by letting him do the carrying, and prodding him in the rear end with a pitchfork, as if it were a cattle prod.

But if, as one hopes, there will be 150 or more schools that are authentically Catholic in the manner envisioned by Ex Corde Ecclesiae, that will be in no small part thanks to the thoughtful and firm prodding of Archbishop Michael Miller.

If civil rights activists could march from Selma to Montgomery under the threat of dogs and cattle prods and water hoses, can not you and I take a slap in the face without slapping back?

Like any cake give them a prod after 12 minutes and if they bounce back they are cooked.

If, on the other hand, you're pushing and prodding your body to go sans food for 12 hours and you're waking up super hungry, grumpy, feeling restricted, and binging on Oreo cookies at hour 11 — then perhaps stop and re-evaluate.

If for nothing else than to stick a cattle prod where the sun don't shine.

But I think that most of the time, moms prod them in that direction, even if they don't realize they are doing it.

If he wants to nurse he tugs on my shirt, and rapidly prods my breast tissue.

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.

The same rules apply if you're combining formula with breast milk or using bottles for pumped milk: Give your baby only as much as she's hungry for, with no prodding to finish any particular amount.

Don't expect little princes and princesses to rule before they're ready If your preschooler struggles with getting himself dressed, don't waste valuable time each morning prodding him to put on his clothes.

If your preschooler struggles with getting himself dressed, don't waste valuable time each morning prodding him to put on his clothes.

Cox also speculated whether Steyer prodded Schneiderman to launch the Exxon probe, which seeks to determine if the oil behemoth violated consumer - protection laws by selling fossil fuels without disclosing its effect on climate change.

Credico also prodded his erstwhile primary rival to back Hawkins, saying, «If Zephyr Teachout isn't a fake out, if she has any integrity at all and is truly progressive, then she will join me in endorsing Howie.&raquIf Zephyr Teachout isn't a fake out, if she has any integrity at all and is truly progressive, then she will join me in endorsing Howie.&raquif she has any integrity at all and is truly progressive, then she will join me in endorsing Howie.»

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.

House Republicans are already prodding their leaders to maintain that pledge in their coming budget — even if Trump doesn't in his.

Labour will only be saved if moderate, mainstream MPs develop iron constitutions and resist the urge — and the prod — to leave.

At a press conference after the forum, Ulrich said that if U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara indicts Mayor Bill de Blasio in the culmination of a long - running investigation into his fundraising, that could prod him into the race.

We look for patterns, we poke and prod: If I do this, what happens?

From there it wasn't a huge technological step to the purely mechanical clock, prodded in large part by the twin developments of the Industrial Revolution (factory workers needed to show up on time) and the railroad (it would be nice if 10 o'clock in London meant the same thing everywhere in England).

The videos confirmed the unorthodox new mode of division Obernier's labeling experiments had implied, but also revealed the cells» surprising dynamism: a long tail that touches and probes nearby blood vessels, short arms that poke and prod other stem cells, and a tongue - like antenna that pokes into the nearby ventricular space, as if to «taste» the cerebrospinal fluid there.

Bake for about 1 hour (cover with foil if beginning to brown too much), or until firm to a gentle prod in the centre.

Elio and Oliver spend their initial days together circling one another, poking and pushing and pulling at each other in conversation, each one prodding each other to make the first move, each one wondering if he dares make a move himself.

She prodded us with questions, especially if we left any detail murky.

Gravity is a film that pulses along with every fibre of your being; it's as if Alfonso Cuarón has tapped into the building blocks of our DNA and prodded the psyche.

Vivian pokes and prods at their assorted insecurities and offenses, until it seems as if all of the relationships will fall apart sooner than they might have.

That being said, director Kevin MacDonald definitely has a flair for the dramatic and a knack for keeping his audience perched on the edge of its seat, even if he tends to on distracting red herrings to achieve that cattle - prod, over-stimulation effect.

Gentle push reminders can prod people into awareness so that even if they don't individually react to the stimulus, they still have the experience of immersion in an environment that is continually engaging with the subject.

She would undo most if not all of the «structural» reforms that have been put in place in recent years — mayoral control, performance - based pay, charter laws and other choice schemes, reliance on entrepreneurship and market incentives, federal efforts to incentivize and prod the system to change in constructive directions, testing - and results - based accountability and more.

In 2012, it looked as if Heather and Erin had failed: Prodded by Governor Daniels, the Indiana legislature voted down a bill to withdraw from Common Core.

One must ask, too, whether Perry's Texas experience — plus his towering self - assuredness — would blind him to the droopy reality of more typical states and the prodding and political cover they might need from outside if they're ever to pull up their education socks.

Hopefully, with the President's prodding, Washington will revisit charter schools and at least set up a few pilots around the state to see if they can help students learn.

Dueck lists four rules that a teacher must follow if penalties for inadequate homework are to be efficient in prodding students to do that work.

If I were there, I would answer, «You trying to «cattle - prod» your students into doing work by giving leverage in the grade book instead of focusing on the real problem — Your students aren't engaged.»

Dr. Glaze has consistently modelled excellence for me, presenting herself as a living example of what I might accomplish if only I would try, as she would prod me, to «reach for the stars.»

It's kind of refreshing to drive a raw, muscular, high - horsepower car like this, knowing that, if one chooses to prod the rear tires (nineteen - inch Pirelli PZero Corsas) to a lack of adhesion, one has only one's own wits and driving skill to call upon to keep the car from the ditch: no electronic stability control here, thank you very much.

Snigger, if you want, at the starting protocol that involves flicking open a slatted cover on top of the shift lever and prodding the start button — circled with red alert lighting — beneath.

It isn't the most immediate motor, and there's always a delay after prodding the throttle, but it will move the Q2 at a decent, if not exhilarating, pace.

Prod the pedal and there's a muffled, breathy growl that sounds as if there's too much gas trying to get out, overlaid as the revs and load build by a flatulent rasp.