Sentences with phrase «prodded for»

Upon being prodded for an update on future plans at his Lamu artist's residence — cum — winter escape, Logsdail sniffed, «I don't like the word residence.»

I'm partial to Jack, a notorious criminal formerly locked away in a Cerberus test facility and mercilessly poked and prodded for the sake of science.

Twitter, the virtual land of hot takes and sweeping opinions, was the first place I prodded for insight as to what is most important for millennial buyers.

As time goes on, Anna (Abigail Breslin) is subjected to a series of increasingly - invasive procedures as she is stuck, poked and prodded for assorted extractions of platelets, blood and bone marrow.

Like a bubble on the breeze, the wave function usually disappears when poked or prodded for information.

Cuomo and the Thruway Authority, after being prodded for years to come clean on what kind of toll structure will be necessary to pay for the bridge's construction, appointed the task force in 2015.

This becomes infectious, even outsiders begin to take notice and soon people will be prodding you for an opportunity to join the team.

Without being present, I could neither control the questioning nor prod for elaborations to his responses.

There once was a jealous old god Who gave Joe's wife Mary a prod For she was so sultry He practiced adultery While Joe was asleep, the poor sod.

Most people believe that we need to be driving, pushing, pulling and prodding ourselves for the kingdom in order to improve ourselves and this world.

The entry of a successful international player like Saputo with clear investment intentions and strategies for Asian growth out of Australia should act as another useful prod for necessary change.

After prodding him for the recipe for at least a dozen times, he told me to be patient and that the time would come.

At a poke - and - prod for scouts before the 2001 Hula Bowl in Maui, Brees was measured and announced by a stentorian clerk as «five - eleven - seven!»

BTW, an email discussion with Alan about Amy's mention of the need to provide different channels of communication based on supporters» preferences was a prod for me to write yesterday's piece on going where your supporters are.

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.

Mattoo says the research is another prod for farmers to investigate alternative techniques, which he says could increase yields by up to 20 %, at least for tomatoes.

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.

Ask students to estimate its size in height and width, prodding them for the reasons behind their estimates.

A nurse comes in to poke or prod him for some reason or another, disrupting his solitude.

It's very unresponsive, requiring a concerted prod for every single tap, drag and scroll.

But some borrowers suggest that loan processing times can be lengthy and require repeated prodding for loan status updates.

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

If he prods you for more attention, ignore him.

The puzzles are old - fashioned — the fixed camera angles and restricted navigation giving me flashbacks to Myst — but they focus investigations with clear areas to probe and prod for clues.

Is there reason to think that this time — even with the added prod for new energy policies from the ongoing gulf oil disaster — that Americans will get out of the fossil - fueled comfort zone?

Indeed, this recent article by Ron Clutz regarding an alt - left, social justice warrior scientist - seemingly with a pimp's penchant for exaggerated alarmism porn - certainly was a motivational prod for moi.

Every fight is an elaborate chess game with both sides prodding for weakness.

Not exact matches

Carefully plan for the launch and future growth and prod the local team in the new market, but set realistic and attainable goals for the new division.

That way, they'll prod you and ask questions to make sure your words are clear for a layperson.

«They don't need to wait for NHTSA to prod them.»

Roper and her organization have been prodding the Securities and Exchange Commission to improve advisor compensation disclosures for decades — largely to no avail.

French President Francois Mitterrand panicked over the prospect of a strong Germany after the Cold War, and prodded Chancellor Helmut Kohl into accepting the euro as a price for German reunification.

Alabama will be the site of a new $ 1.6 billion Toyota Motor Corp (tm) and Mazda Motor Corp (mazda - motor) auto plant, a victory for President Donald Trump who had prodded manufacturers to build new U.S. facilities and threatened tariffs on foreign production, sources said on Tuesday.

The Times also reported that Uber has «experimented with video game techniques, graphics and non-cash rewards of little value that can prod drivers into working longer and harder — and sometimes at hours and locations that are less lucrative for them.»

Taxpayers who qualify as real estate professionals generally have been able to get a bigger tax break for those losses, which could prod some people to try passing as one for tax purposes.

As he prodded the prime minister, Nye, best known as the host of the 1990s PBS show «Bill Nye the Science Guy,» and more recently for the Netflix series «Bill Nye Saves the World,» cited a study by a group called The Solutions Project that concluded Canada could live entirely without fossil fuels if it fully embraced renewable energy sources.

For them, the act of securing financing is akin to an unscheduled colonoscopy, an experience that involves plenty of unpleasant poking and prodding, and almost never ends with a truly happy result.

In fact, the smartest entrepreneurs are constantly searching for them — poking, prodding, and experimenting — to find new ways to fix what they may not have even realized was broken.

Over the past 25 years, MBA programs around the world have grown used to being poked, prodded and analyzed for annual or semi-annual MBA rankings by outlets like Businessweek, the Financial Times and the Economist.

Managing Partner @Pathbreaker Ventures, Corp Dev Deal Lead @Facebook, VC @Azure Capital Partners, BD / Prod Partnerships @Telly, Co-founder @ HERO for Children

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has agreed to meet President Trump for a landmark summit on the border separating the Koreas after some prodding by the South Korean president,...

At a retreat in California's Yosemite National Park for Yahoo's top brass and managers, Mallett took the stage and prodded the several hundred attendees to change the way they did business.

To be sure, the FTC hasn't sat idly: At the prodding of privacy groups, for example, it later fined Google more than $ 22 million for violating its settlement because of the way it had tracked some users» browsing habits.

When Auditor General Michael Ferguson prodded Finance Canada last fall to make such comprehensive forecasts available to the public, the department politely declined, noting that «the federal government is not accountable for the fiscal situation of the provinces and territories.»

For years, Mr. Gates had prodded governments to increase spending on research and development of clean technologies.

And these patients are impatient: prodding white - coats for faster, better answers — or, sometimes, seeking them on their own.

Shareholder Proposals on Information Requests Only Shareholder proposals have rightly played an important role in prodding companies both to adopt governance measures and to disclose campaign spending, often following a model developed by the Center for Political Accountability.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared his support for TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline in a speech to the Calgary Petroleum Club in October 2013 while also criticizing the Conservative government's approach to lobbying for the pipeline in Washington D.C. «They have poked and prodded, annoyed and irritated the Obama administration at every turn.

I think Stumpf has done a terrible job managing this situation (both before it became public and especially in recent days by reluctantly (only after being prodded) taking responsibility for the situation).

During the poking and prodding he'll say, for example, «I don't know how you preachers do it — the politics, the congregational complaining, the expectations of the people.