Or when Bubbles goads the junkie bully, thinking he has Herc to come and back him up, only to be beaten severely?
The Chinese state is the biggest shareholder in the country's 150 biggest companies and guides and goads thousands more.
Its "justice in numbers" online database monitors courts' performance and, the CNJ hopes, goads laggards into action.
Moreover, inter-church competition for alms goads pastors into one-upmanship, sending their congregations on ever-riskier missions to reap the resulting publicity.The Korean press has been seized by the crisis in Afghanistan.
A combination of cash and glory goads the brainy to compete, and can focus a vast amount of brain power on a specific problem.
But wanting those things to be true does not make them so.Scientists, including some of those at the IPCC, have sometimes played along with this, looking for harbingers of catastrophe to act as goads to change.
The government's new "excellence initiative" goads them to differentiate still more, showering €1.9 billion on research programmes and nine "top universities" with promising "future concepts".
But if America goads it with intensive surveillance around its maritime claims, China may succeed in portraying the United States as the troublemaker.
Looking back, it is easy to see how the cut and thrust of takeover battles goads bidders into overpaying.
One lieutenant says his task would be easier without the Americans, as their presence goads many young men to rebel.By demonstrating that Iraqis can take control of their own country by peaceful means, the election may have weakened the insurgency.
With a modernity born of suffering, she makes the two insensitively sparring men look like moral dinosaurs, especially in the extraordinary scene where their reproving passivity goads her into an infuriated declaration of the truth and a blazing exposure of the double standards by which these brothel-frequenting males live.
