Sentences with phrase «then prods»

And then it prods both you and the potential client to follow through, something busy lawyers are not always good at.

In a domino effect, the melting then prods two of the region's monsoon systems to become stronger over India and China.

Grasp the chrome ball - topped gearlever and give it a wiggle to confirm it's in neutral, then prod the unmarked and slightly squidgy rubber - wrapped ignition switch.

During one of these trips, he brought along his college - age daughter and then prodded us to have a conversation.

Not exact matches

My son, Cliff, who was then 18 years old, had earlier come to a deep awareness of the global problem and had prodded me from time to time to think again.

We've read book after book about being brave in exploring how God has uniquely wired us, and then we've been prodded to take faith - filled steps in pursuing that truth.

If, on the other hand, you're pushing and prodding your body to go sans food for 12 hours and you're waking up super hungry, grumpy, feeling restricted, and binging on Oreo cookies at hour 11 — then perhaps stop and re-evaluate.

Poking and prodding just working the opposition out, and then boom, killer pass cuts through all, fools everyone..

Then it was on to the high school, where the coaching staff had prodded White into chasing the dream of playing college football.

Then, using the electric prod he was famous for carrying, Uday jolted the boxer in the chest.

Eriksen's first touch was heavy, but fortunately his prodded shot rebounded back off the keeper and then off the unfortunate Jeffrey Schlupp and in to the net.

First the Argentine reacted quickly to Sami Khedira's flicked header to prod in at the back post then, less than three minutes later, he turned in the middle of the pitch, drew three Spurs men towards him and released Paulo Dybala.

Suarez passed up two good early chances to put Barca ahead, prodding wide and then seeing visiting goalkeeper Ivan Cuellar deny him with an excellent save.

Then, with barely a minute of normal time left to play, Kalou prodded home from an offside position.

Depending on the quality of the remote, the buttons could come off, or the battery compartment (and then the batteries) could come out with a little poking and prodding.

And, if she feels that she's being poked and prodded by the medical community, then again I would say it is her responsibility to find a doctor or midwife that better suits her and will still give her baby (and her) good medical care.

It took some weeks of prodding, but I finally obtained an internal document from the USDA's Food and Nutrition Services branch revealing how the agency at the Senate's behest formulated the magic number — $ 2.6 billion — that it then passed on to the committee where the price mandate was hatched.

We let him explore around without prodding him every now and then.

Dicker prodded his guest and then proceeded to list a catalog of slurs against various races.

Credico also prodded his erstwhile primary rival to back Hawkins, saying, «If Zephyr Teachout isn't a fake out, if she has any integrity at all and is truly progressive, then she will join me in endorsing Howie.»

The pair prodded beetles into spraying until no more defensive chemicals remained, and then fed defenseless beetles to toads.

Ever wonder what your doctor is looking for when she pokes and prods during a physical exam, then blinds you with that little flashlight?

The researchers then successfully prodded what they call keratinocyte - derived iPS cells or KiPS cells to distinguish them from fibroblast - derived iPS cells into becoming all the cell types in the human body, including heart muscle cells and dopamine - producing neurons, which are affected by Parkinson's disease.

It seems that kefir is very beneficial, but when these claims are made and people are given the opportunity to post questions with no replies of any type for months then one starts to wonder many things - your commitment, the benefits of this prod uct, is it legitimate or hype?

The mother prods it with its head, and then the mother animal licks its baby.

He then heats up a copper wire and prods each sample of blood.

We're prodded to laugh at Brad's suitcase being left at home, and then again when Brad has to wear a women's bathrobe since he has no clothes of his own!

Since then Benjamin has been on a roll having been commissioned to score films including Summer in February and Desert Dancer for Crossday Prods, Hours for the Safran Company and most recently, the Viking saga thriller from Vertigo Films, Hammer Of The Gods and Bhopal: A Prayer For Rain, which tells the tragic story of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal, India and stars Martin Sheen and Mischa Barton.

Similarly, when it came to the idea that the feds needed to force states to act, we wrote «Prodding public sector institutions to set goals, monitor performance, and then reward excellence and address mediocrity has been a signal success for reformers on both the left and the right... Sensibly structured accountability systems encourage self - interested workers to take goals seriously, focus on outcomes, and employ all the levers at their disposal to produce those outcomes.

States labored for decades to put such standards in place, prodded in 1994 by the federal Goals 2000 Act, then in 2002 by the No Child Left Behind Act, with its insistence on annual testing and consequential accountability.

Prodded by the courts over concerns about inequities in the local funding capacity of school districts, the 1985 Quality Basic Education Act resulted from 18 months of study by a 41 - member commission appointed by then Gov. Joe Frank Harris.

The V - 10 behind the Huracans» seats is a perfect pendulum, easy to swing and catch, and with gentle prodding from our teacher, we were holding a slide for one lap, then two, then three.

Hesitantly prod the throttle, then lift off again.

I've spent a lot of time in cars where you flick it into Sport mode and then five minutes later start prodding desperately through submenus to stop the damn thing feeling so artlessly leaden, and the solution to this is always, absolutely always, as follows: softer suspension, normal steering, sharper engine / gearbox response.

Then, thank goodness (and a whole bunch of engineering), once prodded into anger the new mill delivers a tradition dose of 911 tunes.

If you prod the accelerator, there's a delay as the transmission figures out what you want and downshifts to a lower gear, then another delay as the turbocharger builds up the boost.

For example, prod the accelerator hard and then ease up immediately and it will select and hold a lower gear that's right for the job and provides substantive engine braking or torque on hand for lightning fast overtaking.

And then, just as suddenly, everything settles back down into a docile «E» mode, where a prod of the accelerator doesn't provoke the same response and the tendency is to take it easy in the slower lane.

My two main gripes with were mainly concerned with the sat - nav; firstly, it's tricky to use its pinch function at times and have to prod the screen once to access the zoom buttons and then press the zoom buttons - that's one press too many when you're on the move and most certainly not ideal.

Eventually with the aid of a kitchen knife and some very careful prodding, I managed to slide the card back in and then pull the battery out.

If you do not feel comfortable in poking and prodding the innermost guts of your BlackBerry, then BBSAK is not for you.

If your dog exhibits fear or anxiety at this gentle prodding, then it may be best to keep the kids at a distance.

If your cat is relaxed and at ease, especially when being poked, prodded and jabbed by a strange person in an equally strange environment, then it's a pretty good sign that the relationship will be a good one.

Then, top that off with your pet being poked and prodded in places where the sun doesn't shine by unfamiliar hands and you've got an overwhelmed and possibly scared pet on your hands.

You'll figure it all out quickly enough in the game through experimentation, but if you're getting your butt severely prodded then there's some good tactics to be found within these pages.

This system helps encourage a slower pace, gently prodding you into the mindset of a sniper who carefully assesses the surroundings, whips out the binoculars to tag some enemies, finds a good position to set up and then squeezes the trigger.

The artist stains and pours paint vertically on the canvas, sometimes prodding it with a brush, and then she turns the work on its side so all the verticals read like horizon lines.

And then there was this dealer who always prodded me to incorporate sign painting into my work.

If the time scale necessary for us to get kicked hard enough to take action to prevent the death of our civilization is longer than the time scale on which we have to take action, then we can't wait for the prodding from Mother Nature.

The US then resisted his bid for a second term as chair, but Dr Pachauri was supported by developing countries, who appreciated his willingness to prod the main perpetrators of climate change.