Sentences with phrase «prodding on»

This stops raging testosterone from prodding him on.

My mom of all people volunteered up (without any prodding on my end) that I sounded more clear than normal, so maybe there are some subtle improvements here over previous generation BlackBerry models.

You shouldn't go pulling and prodding on them as you'll break the internal gears.

He did all of this without any hints or prodding on my part.

to help me unload the dishwasher, he helps set the table, and he cleans up his toys with little prodding on my part.

Each time I walked through the kitchen, I felt like they were calling my name, prodding me on to make something wonderful.

Jesus didn't give the Lord's prayer as a magic incantation (though many believers use it this way); it is supposed to prod us on to deeper levels of conversational prayer with the Lord as you point out.

Performers would prefer to reform Egypt by carrying the lousy bush back there, to create a bright new world in the shell of the old, shine it up, refurbish it a bit, shape it up, and prod it on.

Mr. Jeffries and Mr. Stringer have both prodded him on matters of policy: Mr. Stringer issuing audits from his perch as comptroller, Mr. Jeffries employing the megaphone that federal office provides.

Fought here of course being a light prod on the hand, but still.

How does he prod on the other members of his filming crew?

Referring to her notes, Ms. Valerio peppers Mr. Branson with questions, and, in turn, Mr. Branson prods her on what she would have done differently in that discussion with the teacher and why.

The SUV picks up speed at a leisurely pace, needing a good prod on the gas for enough passing oomph.

In - gear acceleration is terrific too and a prod on the A pedal is enough to gather pace quickly.

100 km / hr in top gear results in 1600 RPM on the tachometer, so a prod on the big pedal is enough to make quick overtakes as the increase in power has given it ample reserve to whizz past traffic.

The resume writer will be on your case at the start to prod you on, but most will lose interest if you show a lack of interest in getting information back to them.

Not exact matches

They should be able to stay on task and take action without being prodded or told what to do.

In other words, what I was doing was putting the dinosaur on a diet and prodding it with a stick.

The 30 companies (and their young founders) on our 2017 list have been pulled and prodded, picked at, and pondered.

On July 27, Bennett admonished Gantz as he was speaking before the cabinet, telling him that military leaders should be like «galloping horses» that need to be restrained by the government, not like «lazy bulls,» which require prodding to take action.

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.

There's a fine line between prodding and bullying, and the difference often depends on the temperament of the subject.

The committee is also calling on the Liberal government to better protect the personal data of Canadians who purchase and sell products online through enhanced cybersecurity, modernize federal e-commerce legislation, and come up with ways to fuel telecom competition to prod Canadians» use of mobile devices to make online purchases and sales.

In the currency markets, the differing messages of the world's major central banks on inflation and monetary policy prodded the dollar higher against the yen ahead of a series of appearances by U.S. Federal Reserve officials this week.

The Trump administration plans to argue the weaker rules will lead to cheaper vehicles, boost sales and employment and improve safety by prodding faster turnover of older vehicles, people briefed on the matter and Carper's letter said.

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,...

That seems to have caused some consternation on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers prodded Mr. Zuckerberg about why, exactly, they should believe his promises now.

Alternatively, China's exit from the Treasury market might just prod Washington into real action on cutting its deficit.

On the equity side, some funds add «best of the worst» companies to encourage better corporate behavior via proxy voting, such as prodding energy companies to produce more renewable energy.

While sales at Lowe's have risen, they continue to trail gains at its larger competitor — a sign it's not doing as good a job capitalizing on the housing boom, which has prodded Americans to spend more on renovations.

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.

Borzi, assistant secretary of the DOL's Employee Benefits Security Administration and chief architect of the fiduciary redraft, told Investment Advisor in an exclusive interview in mid-March that while brokerage industry trade groups have been prodding the DOL and SEC to collaborate on their fiduciary rules so that they end up with «one fiduciary standard,» having identical rules just isn't possible.

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.

Members of Congress prodded Zuckerberg on the common suspicion that Facebook passively listens to its users through their phones.

The current hack of the Coincheck trade likewise caused swells over worldwide markets and prodded a flood of administrative measures to fix security and client assurance on trades.

The bank says an aging fleet of cars on European roads, and a shortage of used cars, will prod more buyers to showrooms next year.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP)-- As Congress debates how to help Puerto Rico with its $ 70 billion debt, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew is trying to prod lawmakers into action with stories of crumbling infrastructure on the island and a lack of basic...

Friends can poke and prod you to follow them on weekend escapades, and when you hesitate, they drop «you're going to miss out» like it's a bomb to force you into submission.

Or a shepherd walking beside a sheep on its way back to the flock would do, so long as the shepherd was not pushing or prodding.

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.

Ordinary human imperfection on the other hand has an inbuilt aspiration, prodding us to continue searching, probing, questioning.

Stirred by the steady stream of feminist literature which has caused a revolution in Western society, and prodded by the more liberal wing of the church which opened up the discussion on the ordination of women twenty or more years ago, contemporary evangelicals have become increasingly interested in reevaluating the role of women.

And it was a reporter from The Boston Globe, at the prodding of his editor who had once worked with Pearl, who reached out seeking info on his status, the results of which created the latest hubbub.

In conversations with conservatives William Bennett and Milton Friedman, he prods them to recognize, as Rawls does, that much of what we call «achievement» is based at least as much on luck as on personal initiative.

I confess to needing a good prod from His rod and staff on a regular basis...

Prodded by Jean - Luc Godard's provocative film Hail Mary, Janet Karsten Larson meditates on the annunciation to Mary and the theme of embodiment.

This proposal that God «prods» us forward, generates «unrest» in us, seems to me to offer up a key element in the manner in which divine love works on us and in us to generate effective consequences, without overwhelming or overpowering us at the same time.

She called on a retinue of «puppeteers» to pull and prod her into the reality of accepting Adam.

And, through the occasional reminder of the pain and the prodding of the Holy Spirit, I quit participating in the «Let's put them on the pedestal and see how hard they fall!»