Sentences with phrase «of goading»

The Court has not only set out a series of tests, it has also coined a variety of key phrases in hopes of goading the Governments into good behaviour.

While the U.S. Constitution is silent on education — effectively delegating authority to individual states — the federal government has a long history of goading states into compliance with its preferred policies.

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.

REUTERS — Nov 18 — Match.com is accused in a federal lawsuit of goading members into renewing their subscriptions through bogus romantic e-mails sent out by company employees.

One hears a bit of goading in the way some scientists and technologists, including Steven Pinker, Ray Kurzweil, Marvin Minsky, and others, have tried to challenge the notion that individuals are too special to be understood like any other phenomena.

If you listen to the interview, there was some amount of goading.

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.

At the same time, I have increasingly come to see the limitations of a goading art.

While it is never said that the abundant life means a denial of the goads of this world, yet it really consists in the laying up of the soul's treasure in heaven; hence, the central paradox.

Each person may be summoned to tasks which seem beyond his or her capability — tasks such as a sojourn through sorrow, a struggle to define the nature of goad and evil, the quest for joy.

School funding is one of the goads for Cuomo and lawmakers to take action on a final budget plan soon: The majority of districts are required to put their annual budgets before voters in mid-May.

Paul Solotaroff — Rolling Stone contributing editor who wrote a wide - ranging, high - profile exposé about the netherworld of puppy mills in the then - new issue of the magazine — discusses how he came to write the piece, sort of goaded into it by Humane Society of The United States CEO Wayne Pacelle, after Solotaroff completed another Rolling Stone investigative opus about factory farming.

Not exact matches

The combination of security and temporary nature of changes might just goad the private sector to awaken a little from its slumber.

While growing up, many of us were encouraged to dream big and allow our dreams to goad us into doing something great with our lives.

- 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.

In the part of the episode where Lacie views the apartment of her dreams, she's shown a virtual reality scene of herself making dinner in the kitchen with a lover — and it's this romantic vision that seems to goad her into pursuing the 4.5 rating.

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).

The problem I have with this analysis (besides my usual disagreement with the assumption that we want to goad investors to be more active) is that «stewardship» is just one form of agency problem in the institutional investor context.

Robin Goad is a professional geologist with 30 years of experience in the mining and exploration industries.

Yvan Allaire has a great analysis of Dow Jones» overreaction to Snapchat's IPO and the dual class stock phenomenon in general:» In July 2017, Dow Jones, goaded by the reaction to Snapchat having gone public with a class of shares without voting rights, announced that, after extensive consultation, it had decided to henceforth eliminate companies -LSB-...]

In the final analysis, the sharpest goads and the sturdiest nails merely add to the burdensome accumulation of human creation.

Then, in a sentence packed with mixed metaphors, the Teacher concludes, «The words of the wise are like goads, their collected sayings like firmly embedded nails — given by one Shepherd.»

In such works as Idea of a Christian Society, After Strange Gods, and Notes Towards the Definition of Culture, he turned away from firmly embedded nails and toward goads.

The prophets of the Bible similarly served as goads.

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.

More goading me into researching your theories on how we existed outside of time and are the actual vessel or cause of this «original sin» separate from all of creation?

This irresponsibility in the name of putatively superior moral intentions and sensibilities has gotten worse in recent years, having been goaded to hitherto unimaginable extremes by the distorting psychological impact of what the American left has considered an illegitimate presidency since December 12, 2000.

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.»

The efforts of the denomination to prevent this, led and goaded by its evangelicals, are creating tensions that may lead to schism.

As a result of the brief, violent moment of crisis in which it became conscious at once of its creative power and of its critical faculties, humanity has quite legitimately become hard to move: no stimulus at the level of mere instinct or blind economic necessity will suffice for long to goad it into moving onwards.

Now the people lived in the land of the dreaded enemy, reciting litanies of lamentation while ghouls goaded them on with «Sing us some of those songs of Zion, miserable losers!

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.

«Process Theology: Guardian of the Oppressor or Goad to the Oppressed?

Given the diversity of seminaries, neither would it be fair to rank them comparatively based on selectivity and other factors that are goads to quality in fields such as business and law.

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.

Then Saladin goads him into fits of jealous rage by hoax phone calls using different voices.

As part of the concluding remarks of the book, verse 11 reads: «The sayings of the wise are like goads, and like nails firmly fixed are the collected sayings which are given by one Shepherd.»

To look backward again for a moment, after the first world war the hunger blockade imposed on Germany and kept up for several months after Germany had surrendered was one of the things that made the German spirit rankle until it could be goaded into a second world war.

You see Jenna, you accuse me of trying to goad you into anger, and then you turn right around and prove my point.

Reports of African famine have goaded him to the view that the church must make a considerable gift to the denomination's hunger and development fund.

Ya, your goad, belly told you, word god is short of word goad, belly, every hindu ignorant prays to as deity.

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.

Revelation is a goad to our consciousness, urging it to strive constantly to imagine anew the ultimate context of our existence.

which you then followed by some ridiculous and insulting further perversion of my view as if it can somehow goad me into playing your game anyway.

For the entertainment of the visitors the insane were goaded to rage by being prodded with sticks.

In subsequent years, the unresolvable tension in Luther's soul between present doubt and future hope goaded him into frantic advocacy, disparagement of doubt - inducing reason, and vitriolic polemic.

The words of wise men are like goads, and masters of these collections are like well - driven nails; they are given by one Shepherd.

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.

Though, I suspect any salvation would include a sharp realization of how hard it is to kick against the goads.