Sentence examples for a prod for from inspiring English sources

The December report by the president's commission on deficit reduction may become a prod for bipartisan action.

A prod for God! Few British prime ministers have offered their advice to such a tremendous authority.

The U.S.O.C.'s lofty target may be as much a marketing strategy as a prod for better performances.

It was perhaps a prod for the PM that the judges chose as their parliamentarian of the year Boris Johnson, the prime minister's greatest rival.

Edward P. Djerejian, a former ambassador to Syria who is now a Middle East expert at Rice University, said the president had intentionally left open the possibility of additional sanctions -- including targeting the energy sector -- as a prod for better compliance.

Both candidates for Senate from New York support normalizing trade with China as a prod for political reform, moving the American Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem as a sign of commitment to the Jewish nation, and maintaining sanctions against President Fidel Castro of Cuba until democracy takes root.

It took a prod from Mr. Rindler for a visitor to discover the room's most telling feature, its most significant and largest pattern: Mr. Rindler has set every single piece of furniture on the same oblique angle, lining it up with the angle described by the loft's peculiar rhomboid shape.

And Jarryd Hayne ran like a hairy goat afire with a cattle prod for a fend in America and rugby league was left to think how many more NRL stars might like a peek States-side.

And each step is a further prod for Google to make concessions to reach a settlement before going to court.

And competition can be a useful prod for making people work and think harder.

Antony Bugg-Levine: The growing awareness that business-as-usual approaches are not working for our societies or our planet are a powerful prod for people to reexamine their assumptions.