There are times when quiet persistence and gentle prodding is what will produce the best outcome.
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"You just have to prod people sometimes, and they needed a good prodding, " said Moyes.
Reed says the EPA has been prodding other retailers, such as Wal-Mart, to do more.
Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) used the Republican divisions over taxes for some political prodding.
After some prodding and delays, he received written answers too late for his deadline.
At her prodding, the couple joined Russia's cultural exodus, to Berlin and then Paris.
First, and most conspicuously, it allows some crummy candidates to win by prodding racial sore spots.
Duke was the brains, always prodding us to do better, showing kindness and understanding.
He made this offer after prodding from the PA and Saudi Arabian and European diplomats.
It is prodding firms to settle trade and even acquire foreign companies in its own currency.
For their part, journalists have a responsibility to keep digging and prodding the powerful.
The anti-royalist rulers of Iraq and Yemen are both prodding their progeny into positions as sons-in-waiting.
Experience in other countries suggests that official prodding is usually needed to improve things.
Whereas borrowing and spending require no prodding, those activities which replenish capital and boost production require incentives.
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The firm was rescued in the eleventh hour by JPMorgan Chase with the prodding of the government.
It has sometimes taken prodding from the media and opposition to make sure that funds are disbursed.
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And the PA security forces reluctantly, with much prodding from Israel have been making occasional forays against the militants.
The United States is prodding poor countries hard to open their financial sectors more to foreign competition.
Two months later, after prodding from a couple of social workers, the parents asked the police to investigate.
Doctors at Bethesda Naval Hospital spent six hours poking, prodding and testing 51-year-old president in his yearly checkup.
That debate christened YouTube as a venue for prodding politicians and a way to get the public involved.
Prodding from the government of New Zealand may have been what eventually goaded the Chinese authorities into action.
Then, the Chinese government has confirmed, with some prodding from Wikileaks, that it wants a reunified Korean peninsula.
Transcripts of grand jury appearances by presidential White House Secretary Betty Currie reveal that she testified under considerable prodding.
Senator Kennedy spent a lot of time on the telephone prodding the lawmakers.
No overlapping coverage prodding network producers to move an audience from one game to another based on the scores.
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They claim injuries to her abdomen were the result of punching or prodding.
Thales has been dragging its heels, despite prodding from the government, which still holds a 30% stake in it.
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But his subjects, who have never been interviewed about their work until now, don't need a lot of prodding.
Maybe the US president may think twice before he does any more prodding.
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