Sentences with phrase «n't goad»

More impressive is this engine's smoothness; it doesn't goad you to rev it up, and it can get loud, but it generally feels content in its work.

It doesn't goad you into driving faster at every stoplight.

The Q3 doesn't goad you on, but it'll handle most everything you can throw at it on public roads.

Not exact matches

- 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.

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).

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.

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

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

Do we not end up goading mostly one another?

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.

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 essence of this, he wrote, «lies in the conviction which a Christian man possesses that every goad thing in him, every good thing he does, is somehow not wrought by himself but by God».23 Paul, for example, said, «By the grace of God I am what I am» (1 Cor.

If a man bury the body of a dog or a man in the earth and not disinter it for half a year, he shall be beaten with five hundred stripes with a goad.

If the views of these theologians are correct, then the good accomplished in redemption lies in a different dimension from the goad realized by human effort, and we can not sustain the thesis that the work of redemption involves as an integral aspect a process in this world, and the actualization of love in this life.

This claim is frequently presented, whether implicitly or explicitly, as a correlative to the idea that Christianity often as personified by Jesus or less frequently by Paul - was «goad» for women, paid them particular attention, or at least offered them opportunities not otherwise available, to caricature, the ideal of «the Feminist Jesus».60 In an admirable and scholarly article Leonard Swidler has marshaled historical evidences to show convincingly that Jesus was a Feminist.61 The politics of such a view is self - evident, for much study of the subject has developed within a context where women were struggling to establish a proper role for themselves within the contemporary church; to this end they have sought an egalitarian past to act as model for present polity.62

The continuous expansion of wealth and power, which is what the rationalization of means meant in practice, did not seem so self - evidently goad.

Jones identifies theodicy as the crucial theological category to assess whether or not liberation and process can be characterized as guardian or goading theologies.

Philip, the Governor of Asia, was goaded into action not only by the pagan residents but even by the Jews.

Between the halves, U.S. Coach Buzz Bennett, an earnest young man but hardly closer to first - rank as a coach than his players, tried to goad his men to better performances by saying, «Don't you guys realize that's a high school team you're playing against?

From the moment they regained consciousness in the hospital, they were goaded to get up and move, if not by their devoted «physical terrorists,» then by one group after another that organizes sporting events for the disabled: the Wounded Warrior Project, Disabled Sports USA, the Achilles Track Club, U.S. Paralympics.

I'm also with you that I think (though am not sure) that Wlad's animosity is goading him on a little bit.

He's goaded him with trash talking — Floyd has to try to knock him out because if he doesn't it would be shameful for the sport of boxing and for Floyd's fiftieth win.

The goading from fans was not going to change the firm line he previously took when he said there was «zero percent» he'd try to drive the 17th green this week.

Khabib won't stand with better strikers, he got goaded into this I think and I doubt he makes the same mistake ever with someone like Ferguson or Conor or Max, but I think every striker in that weight class just sat up in their chairs last night and got interested.

It didn't take long for the others to goad the 6» 3», 310 - pound Tomlinson into facing off with Robinson.

The Gunners SHOULD not allow the Canaries to be in forwad - front in the game to score any goad during the entire course of the match.

pizza didn't sound like he wanted a fight; he just says he thinks the preds would love to goad z into one.

It didn't help that I had a Welling supporter behind me bellowing «Break his legs» whenever one of our midfielders brought the ball forward, the fact that none of our players reacted to that taunt from only 10 feet away shows we expect to hear that sort of goading.

But that has limits, and when some try to paint him as an old crackpot, and get away with it because he won't be goaded, I think a line is crossed.

I am not normaly a big fan of the addidas brand, but the goad lettering really makes the kit stand out.

When we realized that «stimulation» wasn't what my boobs needed to be goaded into making more milk, we just used a bottle for the formula... and I won't lie, I was grateful to be rid of the SNS.

That the SNP's spectacular goading is behind the Conservatives» openly self - centred manoeuvring should not be in doubt.

Interestingly, Dicker tried while Cuomo was speaking to goad him into saying something about Silver, noting repeatedly that the speaker doesn't support the tax cap.

The Conservatives have been goaded by circumstance into embarking on a constitutional struggle that is not of their making.

«The NCC goaded and guided by some ambitious presidential aspirants had shown clearly the paths of constitutionality and rule of law is not theirs to follow.

[amNY] • And, hardly anyone's New Yorker of the Year: Isiah Thomas, the underperforming Dolan hire who can't fire up the Knicks to win a game — but evidently has no trouble goading opponents into brawls.

And it wasn't long before he was goaded by presenter Evan Davis that his plans to slash the deficit were reminiscent of the last election.

«On the other hand, you don't want to inadvertently goad them into running.

If your partner feels bad about himself, then it's not going to be helpful if you are goading him about his weight or telling him he has to lose it to please you.

Lopez's Eve has to goad her into tracking down the culprits — Lila & Eve acknowledges that the impulse to kill every bastard in the room is not natural.

Vince Vaughn antagonizes a Mexican inmate and goads him into a fight by quipping, «last time I checked, the colors of the flag weren't red, white, and burrito.»

He does so, but not before thoughtlessly goading her with questions about her previous lover.

Like Luis Buñuel and Michael Haneke before him, Lanthimos creates looking - glass worlds as a way of goading us into reconsidering everyday presumptions — here picking apart the social fetishisation of the couple, considering whether pairing - off in practice means faking it to match a prospective partner's nesting checklist.

If there's one thing these early -20-somethings don't deserve, it's sympathy, but Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, who co-wrote and co-directed the movie, pull out three different manipulative tricks in order to try to goad our sympathy for their central characters.

The ne'er - do - well officer initially blames the billboards for Willoughby's suicide (actually a response to his rapid physical decline, not Mildred's goadings).

The idea is to get charters and district schools, and stronger and weaker schools — schools that don't generally cross paths — to share ideas and goad each other to improve.

Whereas less enthusiastic classics goad you into the highest gear and carefree cruising, driving a 356 doesn't feel right until you've kicked the clutch in, blipped the right pedal, and carried the car through a turn at full throttle.

You don't need spurs and a crop to goad this Alfa into doing your bidding.