Sentences with phrase «just prod»

But for the rest of us mortals, OptiQly could be just the prod we need.

Alternatively, China's exit from the Treasury market might just prod Washington into real action on cutting its deficit.

For the most part, though, RTTT just prodded states to promise to plan to make reforms, and even things like lifting charter caps do little good when the problems go much deeper.

«Oh just prods them a little, for God's sake.

Set in middle of 350 ° oven and braise 3 — 4 hours until the meat separates easily with just the prodding of a wooden spoon.

Not exact matches

By prodding a bit with a well timed «Tell me more» and waiting out initial awkward sciences, interviewers armed with this question can accomplish just that by digging into a candidate's deepest values.

They prodded Mr. and Mrs. Gates about a bunch of random, quirky stuff — just what you'd expect teens to be curious about.

When he prodded (right - handed) Michigan State quarterback Connor Cook to pull his lead elbow (left arm) through in his throwing motion, Whitfield crouched behind the Spartan standout and told him, «Just imagine there's a midget talking shit right here.

Borzi, assistant secretary of the DOL's Employee Benefits Security Administration and chief architect of the fiduciary redraft, told Investment Advisor in an exclusive interview in mid-March that while brokerage industry trade groups have been prodding the DOL and SEC to collaborate on their fiduciary rules so that they end up with «one fiduciary standard,» having identical rules just isn't possible.

You can't just approach people using the word of God like a cattle prod.

I'll poke and prod under every page looking for the elusive key, and just maybe in my diligence the mighty one will reward my persistence.

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.

Poking and prodding just working the opposition out, and then boom, killer pass cuts through all, fools everyone..

Just a little prod of encouragement and a necessary re-shuffle of formation and

It was just a case of how costly Spurs» wastefulness would prove as Dele Alli had a glorious chance one against one but prodded a dribbling finish wide, before Cech denied both Trippier and substitute Erik Lamela from close range.

You are poked and prodded frequently, often with overtones of «let's just make sure you and you're baby are still breathing mmm.k?

around 7 am, after getting poked, prodded, stuck and generally made to feel like laboratory animal, the nurse tells the gothmommy to push a little, just to see what happens.

Often school - age kids don't need any prodding to turn their home into a laboratory — just the time, space, materials, and supervision to safely do their thing.

Cameron prods Clegg towards a voting refendum Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon writes: Just when you thought the bizarre role reversals of coalition couldn't go any further... I hear that, behind the scenes, David Cameron has found himself privately encouraging a nervous Nick Clegg that he really can win a referendum on AV in May 2011.

Physicists are just beginning to poke and prod at the big implications of superstring theory.

She just looks and wonders, pokes and prods, following her scientific curiosity.

As a result, three times in the first five years after my diagnosis, I found myself waking up in the back of an ambulance, where medics had just given me an injection of glucagon, the hormone that prods the liver to instantly release its stored - up glycogen, a dense form of glucose.

During and after treatments, I got regular massages to remind my body that she was loved and not just a medical experiment getting poked and prodded.

Just being around the doctor in the office and all the, you know, «Hey, am I gonna get a shot today or a needle or give blood, whatever,» so it's a lot of stress about getting poked and prodded when you go to the doctor's office.

With Gary's prodding («You don't have to believe a word I say, just do it for 30 days and see what happens!»)

I listen to your shows for a lot inspiration and just kinda how do I captivate the crowd and just be a really good host and kinda like prod for those good questions and that good uh — interactive feedback.

I mean was she just absolutely poking and prodding until he completely lost it?

No nurses... not after a demeaning experience with a «carer» for whom Anne is just one more dying old body to push and prod.

There's no real terror or dread in it, just the same old meat - puppet gore and cattle - prod scares served up with a kind of ritualized self - satisfaction.

That said, this is very much her film, and Fifty Shades Freed — written, like the last installment, by James's husband, Niall Leonard — demonstrates a genuine self - awareness of the strange hypocrisies she's forced to submit to as she attempts to drag Christian out of the Victorian era and pull him into an age of nontraditional gender roles, just as she's also prodding him to what's posited as his ultimate relinquishment of power and dominance: fatherhood.

IFMCA member James Southall said that War for the Planet of the Apes was «not just the best film music [Giacchino has] ever written» but that «the manner of the score, the construction of the dramatic narrative, [and] the very deliberate emotional prods... make it stand out as a special achievement».

What's more, I became a big fan of Maggie and Pete, playing a couple who are completely at ease with one another, whether it's Maggie gently prodding Pete as he admires Maria in her swimsuit («Just browsing,» he says), or Pete gently expressing his disbelief over Maggie's suspicion that she's the reincarnation of an ancestor who was burned as a witch.

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.

The items on the list are not full - blown essay topics, just hints, snippets, cues, and clues to prod your memory, kick writer's block, and get you started.

I we... nt to the dealership to just take a look but Ed and Lance provided the gentle prodding I need to move forward.

The throttle weight is just perfect; prod lightly and the VDO rev - counter leaps.

Our tester's optional six - speed dual - clutch automatic can downshift two gears at once when you prod the accelerator, but it waits too long to do just that, and it sometimes lurches getting back into 1st gear as you come to a stop.

With an excellent mileage of 27.39 kmpl in diesel and 21.4 kmpl in petrol version, the Baleno clearly prods ahead of its rivals in the fuel efficiency department just like it does in the other aspects.

And then, just as suddenly, everything settles back down into a docile «E» mode, where a prod of the accelerator doesn't provoke the same response and the tendency is to take it easy in the slower lane.

People come here to respond to this trash you're writing just to prod you a bit and see what the monkey does.

• I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but just in case anybody needs a little prodding... Library Card Sign - up Month isn't until September, but why not make the plunge in April if you don't already have a card?

Of course ask anyone at Amazon to comment on these tablets, as we've been poking and prodding to do for months now, and they'll just say mum's the word.

But no matter how I push and prod, all I can ever do is say that traditional publishing is just as bad as self - publishing.

We're not just talking about pouncing on your pooch — being moved or prodded slightly could affect him too.

As long as your dog isn't acting aggressively, one thing you can do to check is to poke and prod (gently but firmly) around their body — just like your vet does.

(Luke, buddy, just kidding, can't you take a little online prodding?)

I was pretty sure that this was nonsense (specifically in the case of Iberia PE) so I thought I'd prod them again just to get them to have another think about what they'd written:

Just make sure you don't let your exuberant trooper get prodded off a ledge to his or her watery death.

From about the half - way point there's no bursts of intuition, just a gentle prod from muscle memory because you've danced this dance before, and already know roughly how all the steps will fit together, it's just the timing that needs sorting out.

When prodded about the possibility of the sequel arriving on other platforms, design director Jonathan Biddle coyly responded, «We're just talking about Wii U today,» which is the standard industry euphemism for, «Yeah we're making this game elsewhere as well, but our contract only let's us talk about this one today.»