Sentence examples for to be prodding from inspiring English sources

The company's directors don't appear to have foreclosed on the prospects of any and all deals, but instead seem to be prodding Roche into a better price.

Any material which is perceived to be prodding one of the victim classes (women, blacks, Pakistanis etc) gets the Guardian front-page shock horror treatment.

The one good thing about these meaningless rules and bills is that they finally seem to be prodding House Democrats into standing up for their own programs as they enter the minority.

At least since 1993, when Mr. Levine recorded this scene with Renée Fleming for Sony Classical on a CD with excerpts from "Wozzeck" and "Lulu," Berg's other opera, he has seemed to be prodding his singers away from the speech of Sprechgesang toward pure song.

Twitter seems to be prodding them.

But companies, surprisingly, have not waited around to be prodded.

They were irreligious; they had to be prodded to mosque.

But Marbury's pride just needed to be prodded.

Few younger men need to be prodded to shop, dressing and spending on their own steam.

"They deserve to be prodded, as it were," Dr. Salthe said.

He concludes: "It's business that needs to be prodded into working harder".