Schering has decided to press ahead even before the law is changed to treat buy-backs more favourably, hoping to goad legislators into action.

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If I do not act immediately, she will repeat her complaint about the trespassers, trying to goad me into action.

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But the risk is that it will take an economic crisis to goad the government into action.

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SEPA's efforts to goad reluctant officials into action.

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Perhaps this is just a bluff, to goad Mr Obama into further sanctions, or make him take the military action he plainly wants to avoid.

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