Sentences with phrase «keep prodding»

You will have to keep prodding; you may have to ask the Banking Ombudsman to intervene or go to court.

Not to keep prodding you for details, but does that change your advice?

Federal nudges keep prodding states along in ways that are good for the country.

God is a continuing summons in our lives to a never - ending search for authentic solutions, for sincere solutions that are not a mixture of good and bad but a discovery of the good in all its purity... God is the unrest in us that does not allow us to be tranquil and content, that keeps prodding us toward the better course that remains ahead of us.

At this year's Willamette Writers Conference, agents and editors kept prodding writers to describe their novels in two to three sentences.

My other nitpick with Intelligent Scan is that the S9 + kept prodding me to hold the phone more upright; I don't have to do that with the iPhone X to get into the device.

Not exact matches

Done right, variable comp helps business owners keep fixed costs low and prod employees toward greater productivity.

There is an existential need for an interrelationship, where I am not Thou, an insight, which is essential for continuation, for keeping on, pursuing, prodding, questioning.

Get over it, the only reason the lies and myths keep getting put forward is stupid lazy faith leaders don't want to have to get a real job and they depend on morons like you to provide them a more than adequate living, aren't you a real prod ignorant clown?

I need a cattle prod to keep my husband away from these!

Outlet covers are intended to keep little fingers from prodding into the outlet and getting electrocuted or burned.

Keep your strokes and tickling as soft and light as possible, instead of using the firmer prodding motions you'd use when tickling a preschooler who's already wide awake.

The report illustrated the problem by quoting blunt emails: from lobbyists prodding their clients to keep contributing tens of thousands of dollars to lawmakers in a position to approve legislation, because «with the NYS Legislature it is not over until the fat lady sings,» and from one recipient of a state grant complaining that «it was likely over the last 15 years, we had paid [the official]... more than [the official] was now giving us.»

With the weather serving as the prod for some to put on their running shoes or keep others at home, the scientists got a good idea of who socially infected who with the running bug.

New research now shows that removing splashes of colors, shadows or water puddles from corrals, keeping noise levels down and not using dogs and electric prods can dramatically reduce the stress cattle experience.

It doesn't need you to keep looking to see what's going on or prodding it every 5 minutes.

Spielberg's «Lincoln» tries to work the middle ground between the two, but it can't help coming down on the side of Lincoln the Saint most of the time, painting him as a font of wisdom who flits about the White House dispensing the wisdom of the ages as he pokes and prods men to do the right thing and tries to keep his hands clean in the process.

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.

A particular selling point is William Hurt as Costner's imaginary friend, the devil on his shoulder who prods him to keep killing.

Erlene Lyde, president of the Charlotte - Mecklenburg Association of Educators, says her group had kept the call to action fairly low key, not wanting to prod principals into doing anything that might restrict participation.

But Green Dot has kept substantially more students in school, and it did so while raising standards and prodding far more students into a college - preparatory curriculum.

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.

Much more important is refinement - which the 3008 has, at least when the revs are kept low - and responsiveness, which is improved by prodding the Sport button or selecting gears yourself (ideally both).

Fear not, fellow Americans, for the 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray's four - cylinder antics are strictly temporary, and the new 6.2 - liter LT1 small - block can be instructed to keep all eight cylinders ready to spin out 460 hp at a prod of the throttle.

If your dog exhibits fear or anxiety at this gentle prodding, then it may be best to keep the kids at a distance.

Cat customers may need an occasional reminder or gentle prodding to help keep their pets on the right track.

But if it keeps selling like this, you can bet that devs will find a way to squeeze Kinect functionality into more and more games without much prodding.

And now, we have face masks to prevent false Face ID authentication for people who plan to get an iPhone X. Yes, despite all the prods that it's 200 times more secure than Touch ID, that the Attention feature will keep malicious actors locked out if they decide to scan your sleeping face and that you actually look good in a black polyesther screen.

The coach listens, prods, listens some more, advises, provides resources and keeps the client accountable.

Our older brains are keeping us away from danger, keeping us safe, helping us to survive and prodding us to find mates and reproduce.