Sentences with phrase «of pester»

I'm sure they will use a lot of pester power to get on fb etc. it's how they socialize.

Therefore CTS 18 and provisions like it do not really limit the role of pester power in providing a link between food advertising and childhood obesity.

The historical basis of the Pester John legend may well have been connected with a Christian ruler of the Keraits.

«The history of this race of Christian kings, afterward so celebrated in Europe under the name of Pester John, is properly referable to the two succeeding centuries.»

He, therefore, instructed the host of the show to direct the question to Ghana Gas Co. instead of pestering him with something he knows nothing about.

A working screenwriter friend of mine got tired of me pestering him for advice on the screenplay, and suggested I go back to the local college and take whatever filmmaking courses they offered.

Why don't you look at why instead of pestering the messenger?

Undeterred, I forged ahead with legal memos to Mr. Petrie and in the face of my pestering, he relented and allowed me to prepare a leave submission.

Hate Farmville, CityVille and all of its billions of pestering, needy fans?

Not exact matches

Early on I worked at a tech startup and in order to get that job, I kept pestering the founder of the company.

Go pester the makers of low - brow entertainment.

It's a question of strategy that will pester myriad consulting firms in the future: Does their success, and perhaps very survival, mean being big or nimble?

Icahn has said that he has no plans of retiring from pestering corporate executives, but a career shift may nonetheless be in the works.

Chairman Richard Meddings said Pester had agreed not to take the portion of his bonus related to a successful migration of customers to the computer system, but declined to say if the CEO would be awarded any other incentive pay this year.

Stewardship is basically concerned with the extent to which institutional investors pester corporate managers, which may or may not redound to the benefit of the hedge fund's investors.

By Emma Rumney and Lawrence White LONDON (Reuters)- The chief executive of British bank TSB, Paul Pester, will not get a bonus linked to the bank's botched computer system...

Actually, this is one of the financial markets with as strict and pestering regulations as could reasonably be expected, implying that at whatever point you have concluded that you are putting resources into the financial market, you won't ever need to stress over heaps of paperwork material.

He has made threats, annoyed, pestered and used religious slurs against me me because of my belief in Jesus Christ.

It's pretty easy to appeal to the future and say, «Someday there will be no more of these guys to pester us.»

The clergymen have been spearheading a campaign in the House of Lords to have payday loans banned before 9 pm, because children are using «pester power» to pressure their parents to take out the high interest credit in order to buy them things.

To sum up, the only real Unpardonable sin is taking the mark of the beast, and from the way you talk, you make it sound like people from non-christian religions should be pestered day and night with «BELIEVE IN GOD OR BURN IN HELL!»

I hope every Canadian keeps paying attention to the voices of survivors, keeps pestering our government relentlessly to make things right here.

So also is worship or prayer when these are regarded as a «pestering of the deity,» in Dean Inge's biting words, or as primarily a cringing submission to an absolute will.

It's a fact of life: Women tend to be written off as incomplete until they achieve motherhood, which means we get pestered at every point along the way:

Our pastor is pestering me or my husband or both of us to do the Vineyard Leadership Institute or Fuller.

She gives us pictures of how women can find a thrilling, transformative love that fits into real life, right in the middle of all the humdrum things we're perpetually pestered with, like financial worries and annoying relatives.

In Luke 18, we have an account of a widow who only gets what she wants because she pesters a judge for it, and Jesus equates her behavior with prayer.

The whole Jesus story that Vic keeps pestering us with is a steaming pile of bull - do.

As I would not stop pestering him on this and as my mother was backwards to the point of experiencing REM in the middle of daytime sleeping and so was of no use whatsoever on these matters, my dad finally got very upset and his face turned red and he went into his den and came out with an old drafting set and a very old King James bible instead of one of his many favorite beating belts, he handed to me that bible and that set and said to me «Here.

Altogether too often prayer is regarded as a kind of gadget by which we can secure what we wish from God; it is, alas, a matter of «pestering the Deity with our petitions,» to use a biting phrase of Dean Inge's.

«The point, rather, is to pester all of us to give serious thought to what we will bring to the discussions of an Earth Charter.

Again, I come back to this pestering question: How does our discipleship speak into the personal stories of pain?

I'm sure if you put some bread crumbs or some of your left over cooking seeds, they'd pester you even more.

Serve a bowl of this vegan appetizer and your guests will pester you for the secrets to all your Halloween recipes.

One of the downsides to living in a place where we have year - round summer temperatures is the Mosquitos & other biting bugs that pester us all of

Lidl has banned sweets and chocolate bars from the checkout at all 600 of its UK stores after surveying parents about the «pester power» of their children.

I spend weeks pestering everyone in my family about what kind of cake they want... My dad knew immediately.

In the cutthroat world of F1 teams will do pretty much anything to gain even the tiniest advantage over each other, whether it's by pestering stewards for a rival to get a penalty, or voting for rule changes which benefit themselves over the greater good.

Missouri, pestered by a ruggedman - to - man defense, shot only 34.6 %, its worst performance of the entireseason.

Kronberger's victory in the combined led members of the press to expectations of a multimedal Olympics, and they began to pester Kronberger about the possibility of winning five golds.

He had moved out of manager Chris Baldwin's garage into an apartment, secured a job as a part - time security guard, and pestered Hall of Fame trainer Jesse Reid, mentor to 23 world champions, including Johnny Tapia and Roger Mayweather, until he agreed to take him on.

On road - melting summer days in Arlington, Texas, when his parents were at work and all his older sister and brother wanted to do was go slack - jawed in front of their favorite TV shows, Jeremy's pestering would make them so crazy that they'd invite him to follow them through an upstairs bedroom window onto the roof, then slip back inside and lock the window, marooning him up there for the rest of the day.

Sam Houston has been pestering their hosts all afternoon with their idiomatic style of play, bunting themselves around the bases to the the tune of a 5 - 2 lead.

If you don't want to be pestered by questions about your insurance policy while you are in the middle of pushing out your baby, make sure you have all of that paperwork in order beforehand.

And it makes use of «pester power» to everyone's benefit — harnessing the children's engagement and enthusiasm for the father - child activities, to reinforce the change in family lifestyle.

If your child has a bad habit of whining, pestering, and begging, you may want to take a step and look at your overall parenting practices.

Make it clear that she can live without a lot of wants and pestering and begging won't change that.

The mom guilt was always a little pestering voice in the back of my head that said «you really should have put his socks on» or «maybe you shouldn't have gone adventuring in Montreal» or «maybe flying with baby wasn't the best idea for overall health.»

This kind of marketing induces kids to want the products, pester their parents for them, and throw tantrums if parents say no.

Meanwhile, in case anyone is wondering whether their pestering of voters before they actually vote was a bit dodgy, they assured us they'd got permission from all the relevant bodies.