Then again, that threat could act as a prod to keep the recalcitrants in line. |
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It has to work hard to prod the beast into motion, and you can feel that from the driver's seat. |
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Poppa had a glass prod inside the tank, poking at her and recording her ferocity. |
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Another case for their records, another freak they can ogle and prod like a piece of meat in a butcher's shop. |
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If you prod the meat with a blunt implement, you will discover cooked meat has a different feel to uncooked meat. |
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You offer lively, informative, interesting, and, yes, controversial articles that stir the soul and prod the mind. |
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I've done what I could, which obviously is not much, to prod the country to move on the drug war. |
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In September I had the opportunity to visit some mine sites, and watch manual deminers prod the ground every two centimeters to locate mines. |
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Most participants dissented from time to time and said they did not want to go on, but the researcher would prod them to continue. |
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They advise and prod Orestes, Pylades, and Electra along, urging them to seek out revenge for Agamemnon's death. |
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With appropriate physical gentleness, have a poke and a prod and check out the territory. |
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I gave the house sale a good poke and prod today and it sounds as if the urgency of our situation has got through. |
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The main purpose of my wee trip was to see my Uncle John and give him a poke and prod prior to his heart surgery. |
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Yet conscience continues to prod us over past unreconciled differences, and memories betray our self-assured surface. |
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That could cost them, along with Chrysler, more market share and prod them to move more of their own production offshore. |
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United's Chris Smith spotted a half-chance and raced in to steal possession and prod the ball home. |
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Then we would prod him with a question or encourage him with praise until slowly, piece by piece, the dream took shape for us. |
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The August 28, 1963 March on Washington was planned to prod a reluctant Congress to enact a comprehensive civil rights bill. |
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Perhaps this is what prompted Veblen's letter to prod Moore into dropping the matter and finalizing his dissertation for publication. |
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So it is imperative for all of us, in one way or another, to prod and encourage both partners to sit down. |
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In the second half Penrith got back in the game when slack marking left a defender free to prod in. |
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Other proteins in wallaby milk may yield treatments to prod bone regrowth in osteoporosis patients. |
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Since then, I've put some more thought into it and probably the easiest way of making a bow prod is to get an old leaf spring from a car wrecker. |
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The electric prod can be used in rodeos by approved people, however the electric prod should be used with certain restrictions. |
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It is the force by which all wrongful things are repelled from us, the sharp prod which spurs the dullards onward. |
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What is fast becoming the biggest prod to change is the faceless mass of investors pumping billions of dollars into companies. |
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Can't you train a thicko to put his rubbish in a bin without using a cattle prod as a punishment and some dog biscuits as a reward. |
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Yep, he thought as he yelped in pain from his experimental prod of the wounded area, that's gonna sting alright. |
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The first was left and the second caused a defensive prod in the middle of the bat, bringing loud applause from the crowd. |
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The implicit question is whether this move can prod uncabled Australians out of their pay TV inertia and get subscription television's hoof in the door of more homes. |
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James was about to prod Savage into moving, but the assassin was already heading towards the center of the courtyard as if he had accepted his own fate. |
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She let the visitor in, giving him a soft prod to make him turn. |
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Sighing, he got to his feet, and gave her a prod in her side. |
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I resisted the urge to prod a response from her but, shortly after I snapped the light off, a heavy thump came at the foot of the bed and she snuggled up against my feet. |
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Perhaps they are the tear-jerking victims of the cuts anyone hoping to prod an impenetrable Tory heart has been waiting for. |
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Other times, it feels like someone's sticking a cattle prod in me and it's like an electric shock. |
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We must constantly prod ourselves to ask questions about the business: have we done what we should have done? |
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In addition, the menacing spectre of racism and xenophobia must prod the German Presidency to take a firm stand. |
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Whether you're looking to start from scratch or refit an old reliable, these women will prod you into a truly impressive outfit. |
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It'll be my turn to prod the jelly tomorrow if silence still obtains. |
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And while further rate cuts may do more to prod auto sales and housing demand, further inflating the already overheated housing market carries its own risks. |
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Robots prod the mattress to test for firmness with numerical precision. |
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This is a gentle prod to the player to quickly finish off the game. |
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A little prod also made them talk about their lost relay race. |
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Then again, that threat could act as a prod to keep the Americans in line. |
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Cattle were reported to vocalize when an electric prod was used. |
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He touched her with the prod and an electric current shot through her. |
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And, of course, a rebuke to our current politics and especially our president, who seems unable to prod a bee to buzz. |
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As a safety valve for parents who desperately need alternatives to schools in catastrophic condition, vouchers may work as a short-term balm, and as a prod to reform. |
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These tests prod and poke the children, creating lots of anxiety and taking away from the joy of learning. |
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But to prod the War on Drugs ever further into history is to make the death of children like Michael Brown ever less likely. |
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Those were executive action, designed to call attention to an issue, prod Congress, or achieve results. |
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Is it really too much to ask, to try to prod young people to connect a couple of dots? |
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God has to continually prompt and prod him, and puts his brother Aaron at his side to do most of the real leadership. |
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And they get on so well, so I don't think I'd use Jess like a cattle prod in Kat's case. |
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They will prod and probe to see exactly how far they can push it. |
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In short, we can prod the engine to our desire, but it just doesn't encourage us to do so, and its sound at full throttle isn't the most pleasing thing to listen to. |
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We will do a search around the mines and prod our way up to them. |
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And while the prod were less profitable towner Home Retail G course to make betw PS135m this year. |
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While donors can prod host governments to be more responsive to citizens' needs, non-state actors themselves must have the means and wherewithal to demand accountability from their governments. |
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The deterioration of the economic outlook and the resulting greater fragility of the financial markets could prod the Fed to loosen its monetary policy in the next few weeks, or even the next few days. |
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Patrice Evra did likewise after the interval as Aymen Abdennour threatened to prod home from Moutinho's dangerous delivery, but that was as close as the hosts came to drawing level in the tie. |
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Abdelmoume Djabou materialised at the far post to prod the ball home. |
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Any evidence of a Turkish-Azerbaijani security alliance would be a red flag for Armenians generally, and a prod to Armenian militants who have sought for decades to avenge the Turkish massacre of Armenians. |
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The topology of the ethograms for the prod test was more complex than for the puff test for all taxa. |
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Web site locks streams at highest resolution to cattle prod users to pay higher bandwidth fees. |
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However, we know it will try to prod the opposition into voting against it whenever it sees blips in the polls that show it could win the government. |
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I suspect you're pretty alive to the issue that the taser can be used both in the stun mode, which is sort of a cattle prod situation, and the probe, which fires up to 21 feet with two prongs that insert in the skin. |
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Blaszczykowski is played into the area by a clever prod from Murawski. |
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Then along comes Samuel L Jackson with his cattle prod and tries to stab you. |
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No, sadly not an electric cattle prod and a CD of opera played at full blast until they get out of bed. |
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The exiles have yet to cohere enough to pose an organised alternative to Mr Assad's rule, and so help prod international opinion towards helping them to speed its demise. |
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There is a squat and fuss-free simplicity about its profile, which belies the amount of 'whoop-ass' that can be delivered with a prod of the accelerator pedal. |
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