Sentence examples for as a prod from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Street used this as a prod to persist.

Then again, that threat could act as a prod to keep the Americans in line.

* Using the threat of litigation as a prod, or referring to a crisis.

"I feel we're approaching an upper limit," Mr. Furda said, citing the national economy as a prod.

During their earlier married life, she unquestionably encouraged her husband and served as a prod to his own ambition.

Maybe I am making too much of 9/11 as a prod to this self-examination and renewal.

Reconciliation was created in 1974 as a budgetary prod and to restrain demagogic filibusters.

Surely, this was meant more as a motivational prod than a threat.

His work underscores these truisms: nature as an endless source of inspiration, human need as a constant prod to innovation.

It is this backchannel closeness that serves as a cattle prod nudging the governments to become closer, too.

I'm 20 things down so far and looking forward to the next five as much as a cattle prod to the nipple.