Sentences with phrase «proverbial carrot on a stick»

It uses government funding as the proverbial carrot on a stick to get companies to work together with universities and nonprofits on helping 3D printing technology for manufacturing cross the so - called «valley of death» — the period of development between a lab's proof - of - concept and commercial product when private funding is often lacking.
A dynamic, co-op PVE match with the proverbial carrot on a stick being leveling to attain new gear.

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It would dip the carrot we have dangling on the end of our proverbial stick into the dirt and then take a chunk out of it.
You can also find new color schemes and music tapes while you plunder the world for materials, which serves as a solid carrot on the proverbial stick.
Your other points about how they can (ab) use their position as the gateway to chip away the effect of encryption by laying various roadblocks (I guess the proverbial «stick» in the «carrot / stick» trope) seems like it could have some teeth if the ISPs really doubled down on this strategy.
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