Sentence examples for an effective goad to from inspiring English sources

Her emptying of the singer's retirement fund proved an effective goad to his creativity.

But Obama could point out to recalcitrant senators unwilling to repeal DADT in the next two months that the courts may wind up making the decision anyway (instead of Congress) -- which may be an effective goad to use on them.

It has been an incentive and a goad to me.

That 25-cent charge is not a rental fee but a goad to return it promptly.

Only then can advertising's role as a specific goad to sales and a general cultural encouragement toward materialism be viewed in its proper context.

But how can an absence be used as a goad to invasion?

Is it a goad to awareness, an incitement to action, a spur to further thought?

Rather, the buildings embodied an aspiration, they were intended as a goad to virtue.

What could be a greater goad to revolution than the anguish of seeing children die?

Drugs aren't a goad to action, but a deadening alternative to it.

In researching and developing my own views on the nature of life and on evolution, I've found Ho both a kindred spirit on many issues and also a goad to further research and thought.