Mr Powell's trip was designed to chivvy the negotiators over the last few hurdles.

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But the council has lately beefed up its powers to monitor and chivvy the slowcoaches.

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Lennart, Kenneth and Juvva leap on and off their snowmobiles, waving their arms and whooping to chivvy the animals along.

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This should have helped it chivvy Argentina towards a deal.

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Some find it hard to cope with the emphasis on drumming up jobs and with the discretion they are given over how hard to chivvy the poor to work.

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As The Economist went to press, the prime minister was preparing to chivvy a conference of business folk to work harder at exporting beyond sickly Europe to faster-growing emerging markets.

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It is both unreasonable to chivvy the Senate to correct the administration's errorsand unwise for the Senate to succumb with so many telling criticisms and unanswered questions about the treaty.

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There's a strong backbench group of 44 MPs and a fair few peers who chivvy ministers on these issues - and they pushed the government into agreeing to publish this document every year.

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Local parts of the health service - hospitals and the new GP-led groups - have now been asked to push ahead with the changes and the speech by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt on Wednesday is an attempt chivvy that along.

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