Sentence examples for prodding him into from inspiring English sources

Since then, though, she has become her husband's chief promoter, willing to plunge into the political fight and prodding him into his current race, even though most of her family was against it.

Bobby Newman, one of Kelly Jones' lawyers, tried to give the jury a taste of the combative cult radio star familiar to the public by prodding him into a state of frustration.

His mother prodded him into music.

The street acquaintance who prodded him into the program dropped out of it early.

He was less garrulous than Mr. Mahmadullah, despite Mr. Mashal's effort to prod him into talking.

The woman prods him into better manners and more patience with worldly foibles, and he endures her tender harangues.

He no doubt fears jeopardizing his diplomatic efforts and knows that his antagonists would like to prod him into conflict.

In an effort to prod him into debating, he charged that the senator was reluctant to defend his record in public.

When Baphadu was released on $150 bail, Golden and I tried to prod him into telling us what, if anything, he knew.

Although Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, formally espoused the notion of the two-state solution for the first time in mid-2009, Mr Obama failed to prod him into actually working for it.

Chung's desire to understand and possibly defuse the destructive cultural forces he saw in both his family and the larger Korean community prodded him into the field of psychiatry.