"We poked and prodded and poked and prodded, and couldn't get it to go away," said Dr. Siepel.
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Their companies became more sophisticated over time, prodded by their governments (which were themselves often prodded by ambitious industrialists).
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Her lady parts were prodded and poked with extreme prejudice.
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Corden prodded for details, asking who made the first move.
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Prodded by government, companies are beginning to pool their orders.
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"Why would you resist that kind of investigation?" he prodded.
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Trump's drug czar was prodded by House Oversight Chairman Rep.
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They have been poked and prodded and are still sick.
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Members of Congress prodded Takata and NHTSA to move quickly.
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On numerous occasions, we have to be prodded and pierced.
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Prodded a few minutes later by New Hampshire Democrat Sen.
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Jana Partners, for instance, prodded change at Whole Foods Market.
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But when prodded, they come up with decidedly middling assessments.
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Mr. Obama, he said, was prodded by more than fear.
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Last week, Trump prodded McConnell for failing to replace ObamaCare.
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He says only one guard was prodded to act tougher.
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He'll only admit his ambition when prodded, but it's there.
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Prodded by children's charities, the government wants to tighten things up.
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He failed, repeatedly, to defend Trump when Kaine prodded him to.
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"You have to say what your ideas are," Jones prodded him.
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" Wiley prodded him, like a therapist: "Tell me more about that.
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He initially refused but then, prodded by his Argentine counterpart, relented.
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When prodded further, Spicer said the administration would provide a list.
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Thus prodded, CARB held a workshop on oversupply in April 2018.
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When prodded to offer some kind of empathy -- Trump lashed out.
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"So much so, that he never once prodded me about it."
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I prodded them for hours, until I was tired and frustrated.
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President Donald Trump prodded Republicans in a tweet on Monday morning.
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The arrests have prodded Europe and America to take some hesitant action.
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" After being met with silence, he prodded, "It starts with an 'E.
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Prodded by aid donors, Afghanistan and Sudan recently promised to do likewise.
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While she prodded a bit, Collins never really dug in against Sessions.
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When prodded about his mostly young, mostly women fan base, Styles bristled.
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The part of my brain that's read Edward Said poked and prodded.
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McMaster, with his nimble intellect, prodded the Army to absorb these changes.
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The shortage has prodded management to invent new ways to attract talent.
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Prodded by a professor, the police are trying again to find out.
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For a month the doctors there pushed, prodded and ran their tests.
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They prodded legislators to ask the Government Accountability Office to investigate morcellation.
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In a tweet Wednesday, Trump prodded lawmakers to "move fast" on taxes.
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Stanley pushed me and prodded me further than I've ever been pushed before.
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Clearly, Obama has often prodded Abe beyond his comfort zone on history issues.
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They are poked and prodded, physiologically and psychologically, and monitored day and night.
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Mr Emanuel prodded firms such as McDonald's to bring their headquarters to Chicago.
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" When Charlamagne prodded Grande about where Miller was, the singer responded, "Being supportive.
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Judge Rakoff prodded Palin's assertions of Bennet's malice based on the evidentiary record.
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Historically, investigations by New York's attorney general have prodded the SEC to act.
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Sometimes fraught exchanges between singers are prodded along by stubbornly repetitive instrumental riffs.
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Once The Associated Press, which prodded the superdelegates to come forward, declared Mrs.
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Many of the risks that prodded the Fed toward patience have since faded.
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"Has anything changed in the way your face looks?" the surgeon prodded gently.
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Few games demand to be poked, prodded, and replayed like Luigi's Mansion 3.
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But the policies have not yet prodded France out of its economic stagnation.
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Having my hair teasingly prodded during recess or being called "oreo" felt normal.
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When prodded for Rexy's origin story, Mr. Vevers celebrated that there is none.
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A sense that they could be prodded and poked, manipulated by external forces.
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Instead, she has prodded lawmakers to focus on an economic agenda that stimulates productivity.
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Still, its arrival—and investors' growing irritation—may have prodded the regulator into action.
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Stranger's noses and ears just have to be pulled and prodded at regular intervals.
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Weinstein prodded her for massages at hotels in Dublin and London beginning in 1991.
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Understandably, the album has been poked and prodded and microscoped anew since Scott's death.
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Local officials were also prodded for tips on local education programs and tax incentives.
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But even after becoming president, Mr. Trump has prodded the Justice Department to reinvestigate.
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And he spent the rest of the day being questioned, prodded, poked and scanned.
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Recently, he's prodded federal antitrust regulators to investigate whether Google is violating competition laws.
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Stern pushed, prodded, punished, insulted, chafed and charmed those who crossed or challenged him.
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But prodded by their employees, they appeared to find their voice in recent days.
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In a few cases, the Trump campaign's public shaming has prodded groups to change.
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"There have always been men who poked and prodded at these boundaries," she said.
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"It must be scary to feel your livelihood, your essence, be threatened," I prodded.
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" Prodded Warren, "Have any of your children had to borrow money to pay for college?
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" Schumer had prodded Trump by noting, "We shouldn't shut down the government over a dispute.
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"I can't tease anything, because it would reveal the whole thing," she says when prodded.
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I picked and prodded at Claudette, the trapped hair from hell, with absolutely zero success.
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These bees, however, were unlikely to sting — likely only if they were poked or prodded.
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There were those who prodded and pursued what at the Embassy believed were irrelevant issues.
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The government ethics director who prodded President Trump's administration over conflicts of interest is resigning.
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Clinton poked, prodded and quoted Trump's own words, goading the famously thin-skinned Republican nominee.
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It has prodded private companies to invest in state firms, to make them more efficient.
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Fifty years ago, the death of great leaders prodded Congress to act on gun control.
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His younger sibling will not oblige, responding only by yelling, "Ten dollar cocktails!" whenever prodded.
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Producers actively prodded the sleeping jealousy monster by placing the former contestants side-by-side.
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Delly was prodded and poked, her kidney monitored to make sure it was keeping up.
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When your cart fills above the $35 minimum, you'll be prodded to complete the checkout.
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She found joy in joking with the staff as they poked and prodded her daily.
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Prodded by their sons, they arrange a children's play date at Emily's sleek modernist lair.
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Prodded by Mr. Cumella's monthly emails, Woodlawn officials told him a headstone would be created.
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The anger, in turn, has prodded train companies to a seemingly endless cascade of apologies.
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What's notable is how measured the athletes have tried to remain, until poked and prodded.
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Esterly's daughter, Veronica, prodded her into action by asking her mother how they could help.
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But she broke new ground on some issues -- and prodded Kavanaugh on Trump's politics, too.
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When he ordered only water to drink while I enjoyed a few beers, I prodded.
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As part of one program, listeners were prodded to take a survey on the BBC website.
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But he is being prodded by his donors to make a run for the White House.
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It also prodded Ms. Shaheen to distance herself from President Obama's planned executive orders on immigration.
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From there, she primped, prodded, and prepared herself for her own reign as a star socialite.
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Italy's low birth rate, coupled with disappointing economic growth, has prodded successive governments into pension reforms.
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The big picture: Trump has often prodded OPEC via Twitter to argue for lower oil prices.
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Rumors circulated around, especially as Johnston prodded Marvel editors, including Cebulski, about whether Yoshida really existed.
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Those who must burn wood and dung are prodded to do so in more efficient stoves.
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Most designs work by tapping into the energy levels of atoms that are prodded with microwaves.
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Gimelstob has prodded Isner, a homebody at heart, to play more events outside the United States.
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Loeb aggressively prodded change at Yahoo; his hedge fund, Third Point, is Nestlé's sixth-largest shareholder.
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Westbrook prodded and poked, dribbling into the lane and finding open teammates or finishing by himself.
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Auriemma said he had to be prodded into coaching again after winning in London in 2012.
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You must now prepare yourself, the expression said, to be prodded with a very long fork.
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I felt like cattle being poked and prodded on a daily basis and undergoing invasive procedures.
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After about 10 days, the male frog prodded the eggs, prompting the tadpoles inside to spin.
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And several young reporters have broken consequential stories that have prodded powerful institutions into changing policies.
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Trump prodded lawmakers last week to turn the bill, known as "Right to Try, " into law.
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There is a theory: Regulations prodded companies to invest in technologies they might otherwise have ignored.
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He didn't elaborate, so I prodded him on how he might know that to be true.
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They, more than most, prodded the country into becoming the democracy it always said it was.
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He prodded me, most recently, to write — and then rewrite — a review of Elena Ferrante's work.
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Treasury and House Democrats, prodded by unions, have both fought to prioritize pensions over bond payments.
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They have prodded him in public, declaring on television that they consider impeachment an impractical idea.
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Ms. Raisman has also said the federation prodded her to keep her abuse from the public.
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He said he was proud that his intervention had prodded other nations to step up their spending.
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In an email, he prodded Jean Bernard Yarissem, WWF's top official in the country, for more detail.
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"Greenland is a large, sleeping giant being prodded by many different processes on all sides," he explains.
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That snake is big, and it looks a little pissed off that it's being poked and prodded.
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That success prodded Toho, the Japanese studio behind the franchise, to unleash the iconic brute once more.
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Prodded by America, it is expected to pass a resolution calling for a fresh round of sanctions.
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The press repeatedly prodded the deputy press secretary about the surprise firing of FBI Director James Comey.
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Over the years people have prodded me into showing off my driving skills on a video game.
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Perez, Obama's former secretary of labor, reportedly entered the race after being prodded by Obama's White House.
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Prodded by grassroots activists and what's left of teachers' unions, Democrats went all out to defeat DeVos.
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In fact, politicians had to be prodded to visit, according to Abhishek Bharadwaj, a homeless-rights activist.
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Companies prodded by shareholders and organizations, like Ceres (a nonprofit sustainability group) have begun to take action.
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The fall of the Soviet Union was in no small part prodded along by western intelligence operations.
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When some of the start-ups cut costs, often prodded by SoftBank, they reduced payments to workers.
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Second, all the candidates were prodded about how they would make the organization more efficient and fair.
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In some instances when Penfield prodded a person's brain, they would suddenly experience a detailed personal memory.
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Over the next few months, they poked, prodded, and stretched the prototype to make sure it fit.
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Peppering the young women with questions without introducing himself, he picked and prodded around, invading their space.
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For instance, if doctors dislike being prodded to take harder cases, the policy might backfire, she said.
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Also on Monday, China's surprise cut of the required reserve rate for banks prodded the yuan lower.
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Her consigliere, Philippe Reines, has prodded reporters on including her name when they write about 2020 candidates.
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Huston, a friend of Cockburn's, prodded Bogart to buy the rights and put money into the film.
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At other times Mr. Haider records his subjects without comment; no one here is prodded to overexplain.
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But it's only recently that Amazon's blistering success has prodded the incumbents to try to reinvent themselves.
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The F.D.A. largely finalized the standards in 2015, prodded by a consumer lawsuit to adhere to deadlines.
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Prodded by angry investors, the French authorities shut down Aristophil on a Tuesday morning in November 2014.
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But now he's being prodded into a deal with Viacom, a transaction he seems reluctant to do.
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In our era of congressional abdication, all presidents are prodded or tempted toward power grabs and caesarism.
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When I prodded them for details, I heard stories that lacked even hints of anger or bitterness.
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They can't just be treated like cattle, prodded and moved about from one place to the next.
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The US, which has prodded Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear program to little avail, balked at the demand.
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"Yes, you want everything to be done for you, like some privileged real estate developer's son," he prodded.
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Mason further prodded, asking if he would have been able to write the famous track without experiencing heartbreak.
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But Kucinich has also prodded Cordray to be more vocal about his stances on issues like gun control.
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At least five analysts prodded Wells Fargo executives about its operating expenses on a conference call last week.
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Perhaps prodded into action by the coming budgetary talks, PiS has lately tweaked some of its judicial reforms.
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The event did provide tense moments when a US reporter prodded Xi about his country's treatment of journalists.
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I prodded the researchers and relationship experts for the key to avoiding the awkward struggle of adult friendship.
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Even worse, their efforts have prodded members of Congress to advocate against American lumber and support Canadian lumber.
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Those systems revolve around research subjects—the people who consent to getting poked and prodded and experimented upon.
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The research participants in the current study have been tested, poked, prodded, and measured over their entire lives.
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Under the Nets' previous leadership, prodded by the owner Mikhail D. Prokhorov, lofty expectations were tossed around frequently.
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Mr. Obama at turns prodded Mr. Castro to submit to questions during an extraordinary 55-minute news conference.
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Relatives prodded Ms. Saavedra about why she was still with him; she said it was for the children.
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Sixty-two Canadian men had their genitals poked and prodded to determine if foreskin matters for sexual pleasure.
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His interventions largely pleased Senate Republicans, who kept him out of some races and prodded him into others.
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They provoke each other while forming a bond and being prodded toward a bigger understanding of the world.
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This month, these two websites prodded thousands of Twitter followers to attend an anti-AfD rally in Berlin.
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I've been tested, prodded, injected and studied for well over two years as part of a clinical trial.
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Beijing has pushed to add more money to the economy and had prodded local governments to increase spending.
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The test prompted a response from the president that prodded China to take greater action against North Korea.
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" He prodded Biden about what he did to prevent the deportations, and asked, "Why should Latinos trust you?
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But there were others from Barkley's era who prodded and provoked many along the path to collective immortality.
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Unless prodded by teachers and anxious administrators, the typical student may be indifferent about his or her performance.
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U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis has repeatedly prodded them to move swiftly while seemingly giving the defense more latitude.
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Big arguments can take place as people fight for power and sensitive, emotionally charged issues like jealousy are prodded.
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When someone prodded Bartlett to share one of the Penny cartoons featuring Arnold, "Mary loved them," Bartlett said, laughing.
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Prodded in part by the online investment funds, they have moved away from their plain-vanilla deposit-taking roots.
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Every few years after that, he has returned to be poked, prodded and tested in the name of science.
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" Prodded by the couple if he's feeling okay, William assures, "Okay does not do justice to how I feel.
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You could feel the anticipation in the room as I was poked and prodded, and we watched the screen.
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After a friend prodded him to audition for an episodic theater piece at the Pyramid, his stage career began.
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It was Ms. Uppal who prodded officials to start the Big Orange Meal Share to let students donate swipes.
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Those efforts prodded Occidental to obtain financing from billionaire Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc that eliminated a shareholder vote.
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Mr. Trump is being prodded to take an aggressive position on Venezuela by Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida.
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Some classmates prodded me to give a speech because I had organized a "Democracy Salon" during my freshman year.
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Mr. Miller sprang from his chair and said a polite goodbye, and then prodded anyone nearby for more details.
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The shift was prodded by two non-musician collaborators: the movie director Mike Mills, and Berninger's wife, Carin Besser.
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The Obama administration prodded colleges to immediately take "interim measures" against accused students, and speedily rule on their guilt.
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Tani enjoyed the game and prodded his mom, Oluwatoyin Adewumi, to ask if he could join the chess club.
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How an introduction to meditation prodded people to stay relatively active as winter approached is not clear, he says.
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The Club for Growth, an influential conservative organization, prodded lawmakers to pass a repeal bill with Mr. Cruz's proposal.
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Some of his favorite films—"Rashomon," for instance—prodded viewers to consider a story's divergent possibilities without requiring interactivity.
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Not long ago, mahouts prodded their working elephants to help push trucks free of muddy quagmires on the road.
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Rubin has poked and prodded flies for decades, including as a leader of the effort to sequence their genome.
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Hedge fund SailingStone Capital Partners LLC last year prodded Range Resources Corp to add two directors with compensation experience.
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On June 85033, 1950, just six days before starting the war, Pyongyang again prodded Seoul with a revised plan.
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That day, as Sophia prodded her, she got out of bed, determined to keep going -- "for her," Larrauri said.
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Environmentalists have prodded governments and courts to award rights to lakes, hills, rivers, and even individual species of plants.
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Those efforts prodded Occidental to get financing from billionaire Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc that eliminated a shareholder vote.
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As a child, Aaron Horowitz spent years getting poked and prodded as part of treatment for human growth hormone deficiency.
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The New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault praised the TLC's actions, but prodded the commission to go even further.
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Bacterial colonies have been prodded into forming large-scale swirls and streams that seem to move like herds of animals.
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A soft-spoken American law professor, Mr Kaye has prodded Japan to address concerns about the independence of its media.
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Later, prodded by his mother, he stole Esau's blessing by tricking old man Isaac into believing he was Esau. 4.
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Jadwiga Emilewicz, an economy minister in Poland, claims that the country's firms are being prodded to move up value chains.
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It's also prodded investment firms to offer the public an ever widening range of vehicles in which to do so.
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Kosovare Asllani played an inch perfect diagonal ball to striker Blackstenius, who prodded the ball past onrushing keeper Stephanie Labbe.
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But people do show up when prodded by the urgency and peer pressure of scheduled group cycling or aerobics classes.
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Obama prodded Vietnam's leaders on political freedoms during his visit after critics of the government were prevented from meeting him.
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It would be a mistake to think that Raisi has been prodded into the elections as Khamenei's pick against Rouhani.
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" Kimmel also jokingly prodded Andrews for a share of her reward on Wednesday, asking, "May I have a million dollars?
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Such cases have spiked in recent years as violence and corruption in Central America have prodded thousands of migrants northward.
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While introducing the film, Silverstone was prodded by the audience to re-up her iconic "Cher" for the special occasion.
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The company released the information under some duress, prodded by accusations that it was suppressing reports from conservative news outlets.
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The letters prodded the stars to disclose when they are paid to compliment products on Instagram or other social media.
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Or maybe it prodded the leadership to spend early money to make sure the more progressive candidates did not prevail.
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Leaving some wiggle room As the hearing went on, senators from both parties prodded Barr for details about the report.
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Mr. Trump took a victory lap after Mr. Obama's planned visit was announced, insisting that he had prodded the trip.
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Some schools, prodded by Mr. Derham and others, are doing just that: taking steps to further diversify their student bodies.
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Prodded as always by bad press rather than any sense of shame, the president finally called the widow of Sgt.
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So why does the National Health Service (NHS) routinely send women to have their wombs poked and prodded without anesthesia?
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While promising to clarify the rules on investment, the countries also prodded Tehran to make itself more attractive to investors.
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The Trump administration has been prodded into demanding a cease-fire, but that seems only to have provoked new fighting.
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When Janice Baker-Kinney spoke, she was prodded to remember the exact date she came to terms with her alcoholism.
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He likes to play golf, but sometimes must be prodded to hit the practice range to work on his mechanics.
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CNN's Wolf Blitzer prodded Senator Bernie Sanders to confront Vice President Joe Biden on his support for the Iraq War.
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It prodded the city to pass an ordinance to raise contracts with minority- and women-owned firms to 15 percent.
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It prodded at the front-runner Mr. Sanders's controversial remarks about Cuba without really delving into his democratic-socialist philosophy.
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In a blog post about the promotion, JetBlue also prodded passengers to smile instead of scowl at their fellow travelers.
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Frequent flyers have become accustomed to being prodded, gawked at, delayed, forced off planes, and generally hassled on their travels.
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Trump has poked and prodded the limits of acceptability, and he has found them to be not fixed, but flexible.
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But one hacker who has prodded at radioactive hazard protections for years says he's found serious vulnerabilities in those safety systems.
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Silicon needles just a few microns thick can be prodded into the brains of mice in order to target individual neurons.
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The law has prodded teachers to report bullying but it has done little to change how they deal with the problem.
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The long-reigning bad boy of German painting has consistently poked and prodded at whatever preciousness we associate with the medium.
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A few of my friends have been groped or prodded by TSA agents, and I know others have even been detained.
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John Thune, who is pushing for negotiations, says he thinks Democrats might be prodded towards the negotiating table by FCC action.
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Also on Monday, China's surprise cut of the required reserve rate for banks prodded the yuan lower and drove the higher.
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When prodded whether "the race factor, black, increases the future dangerousness for various complicated reasons", Dr Quijano reiterated his claim: "yes".
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In 2014, prodded by some of the 113/11 families, President Obama asked intelligence officials to work on declassifying the material.
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I prodded, giving him the typical attorney line that I needed him to articulate his thoughts even if they seemed obvious.
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Yet he had to be prodded to return to his home base, Chicago, as it suffered a rash of black death.
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Republicans, meanwhile, prodded Yellen to acknoweldge that cutting taxes and regulations could boost an economy that is growing, but only slowly.
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That seemed to upset Banks, who defended West and prodded at Del Rey in a series of Instagram missives last Monday.
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We're often prodded along by overhyping scientists like Zamboni, who are under their own pressure to attract research funding and publications.
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This shifted money away from treatment toward interdiction and incarceration, and prodded the country to embrace a "lock-'em-up" mentality.
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Beijing has prodded Pakistan to stabilize its border with India, hoping for greater stability as it pursues its regional economic ambitions.
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He has prodded GM CEO Mary Barra to find a solution and tried to blame local union leaders for the closure.
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Casie Baker, 29, a bank worker, said her family prodded and cajoled and hectored each other until the voting was done.
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Make sure you say the "aha!" out loud so the puzzle can hear you, or you might wind up being prodded.
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Through sharp characters and dialogue, he prodded us — in laughter and tears — to contend with the traits that make us human.
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I brought Tim, who stayed close as a neurologist poked and prodded me, and vials and vials of blood were drawn.
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Prodded by the president, Mr. McConnell finally relented in 2018 and the measure passed with almost 90 votes — including his own.
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The Obama administration also granted waivers for industry lobbyists, and had to be prodded to release them as they were filed.
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While the government has done nothing the tech companies, prodded by accusations that they are undermining democracy, have taken some action.
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In our private and our professional lives, we're prodded to burnish our images, to advertise our assets, to sell, sell, sell.
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When a textbook that he found on the topic began with algebraic formulas, he prodded his older brother to explain them.
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Today, few children are prodded toward typing classes, and that's for the very sane reason that few children need to be.
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Just about every American president has prodded other states in the Atlantic alliance to spend more on their own national defense.
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While every other planet in our solar system has been poked and prodded by multiple spacecraft, these two remain largely unexplored.
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" Zucker prodded a producer to pass along a question to Tapper through his earpiece: "Have you guys ever made any mistakes?
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I prodded ever so gently: At what point should the president close the gate — before or after your papers are finalized?
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"Once again, under the glare of negative publicity, Pope Francis is prodded to finally do the right thing," a statement said.
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Since then, other studies have prodded at the question, similarly failing to find hard evidence of marijuana leading people to harder drugs.
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In a story published by The New Yorker this month, Levchin prodded the technology industry to be more genuine on social issues.
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Humans have poked and prodded plenty of human and monkey brains, Schieber pointed out, and there's still a whole lot to learn.
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The Bank of Japan (BoJ) has prodded institutions to prepare for imported shocks, such as an exchange-rate shift or financial crisis.
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That upped Kennedy's pitch count to 45 while retiring only three batters and prodded pitching coach Dave Eiland to visit the mound.
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Teachers pull girls out of class to give a urine sample or, more often, to be squeezed and prodded in the abdomen.
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But a generation ago, Democrats, prodded by labor, began to change their stance because too many workers were being displaced by globalization.
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"I never understood why everybody asked me about this scarf," she said when prodded by Watch What Happens Live host Andy Cohen.
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When prodded, his counselor, Kellyanne Conway, glibly said that Trump had changed his tune because "the people don't care" about his taxes.
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I wanted to feel invincible after nine months of being poked and prodded and cut open in the name of reputable science.
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Though Dye had seen him through his mother's death and his surgery, the stresses on the relationship prodded Lee to step away.
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At a hearing, Dutch MPs prodded their own central bank's governor to say whether he thinks the ECB is exceeding its mandate.
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In truth, the deal has been in the works for years, but new U.S. protectionist trade policies prodded negotiators to move quickly.
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Many women dread the indignity of the annual pelvic exam, in which they are poked and prodded with their feet in stirrups.
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And McMorris Rodgers remembers her 25-year-old self -- who had to be prodded to run for office in the first place.
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Charlotte's municipal efforts to strengthen legal protections for transgender people were part of what prodded the General Assembly to pass H.B. 2.
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President Trump prodded Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellTrump faces crucial decisions on economy, guns Are Democrats turning Trump-like?
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When you're at eye level with another person, however, you can be briefly prodded out of solipsism: you see yourself being seen.
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They prodded the VA to start new programs, and officials travelled to Mar-a-Lago at taxpayer expense to hear their views.
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Three days earlier, Trump, prodded by his most ideological aides, had issued an executive order banning travellers from seven Muslim-majority countries.
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"[Name redacted] stepped off the path on a grassy area that he prodded with a stick and seemed sound," one report said.
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Ed Royce, the committee's Republican chairman, prodded Trump on the matter in a July 26 letter, requesting a determination by August 9.
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He has been prodded by his longtime financial patron, Rebekah Mercer, the conservative philanthropist and political donor, according to White House insiders.
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Pallone and his colleagues have been active on this and prodded the FCC for updates throughout last year, eventually prompting today's letter.
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I feel like I am constantly prodded by both my Democratic and pro-life friends to see 'whose team I'm really on.
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I poked and prodded, picking fights designed to reveal any holiday man tendencies before I got hurt, before I became too invested.
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They weren't prodded at all, though there were some surprises, like Linda's hair, which she'd done for a job for someone else.
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Canada put an end to talks after the U.S., prodded by Boeing, sought to impose tariffs on a Canadian-made commercial plane.
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He will be poked and prodded to go beyond uplifting rhetoric and policy generalities to prove he is up to the job.
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More seriously ill patients, or people who take multiple medications or have chronic illnesses, need to be poked and prodded in person.
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Prodded by Fox News, Mr. Trump has made Chief Gallagher a cause célèbre, trumpeting him as an argument for his re-election.
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Democrats poked and prodded, attempting to get a better understanding of his personal views and how they would affect his potential court rulings.
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After being prodded by the judge, Morgan answered that he didn't look at any of Bates' training records to come to his conclusion.
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Much of his early thought process was instigated by Johnson, who prodded him with questions about potential lawsuits following run-ins with Twitter.
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The seizure of the Grace 1 threw a spanner in the works, not least because Britain was prodded into action by American intelligence.
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People would be prodded to pay for insurance products that offered a better standard of care, using savings, their house or other assets.
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" After revealing that she was engaged to the man with her, Kimmel prodded Washington, "Will you be the best man at their wedding?
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He prodded sources to lodge complaints about the company with regulators, and then lobbied agencies to pursue the complaints, according to the filing.
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None of this exonerates Papadopoulos, though, and it's clear some of his superiors knew about some of his efforts because he prodded them.
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He's eventually done the right thing, but he has to be prodded every step of the way, and I don't think that's good.
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Also on Monday, China's surprise cut of the required reserve rate for banks prodded the yuan lower and drove the Australian dollar higher.
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Allen inbounded the ball, and after getting it handed right back, he prodded the defense but looked like he ran out of options.
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The government has got tough on graft, and the central bank has prodded state-owned lenders to stop giving sweetheart deals to moguls.
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But he said local waiters and chefs had also prodded him - via Google Translate - to try local fares including Russian lamb and buckwheat.
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"Harper Lee was ahead of her time and her masterpiece 'To Kill a Mockingbird' prodded America to catch up with her," he said.
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It isn't just late-night TV. Cultural arenas and institutions that were always liberal are being prodded or dragged further to the left.
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China's cut in the required reserve rate for banks prodded the yuan minimally lower and drove the Australian dollar to a day's high.
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As the 43 season was winding down, his mother, Vicky, a teacher who played college basketball, prodded him to find a paying job.
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And the hat-trick was complete shortly after in the 69th minute when he prodded home substitute Riyad Mahrez's cross from close range.
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Prodded by fierce public backlash, Google just pulled an app that celebrated gay conversion therapy and disparaged the "destructive lifestyles" of LGBTQ people.
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Even as they are poked and prodded and perhaps disproved, they live and die not on their cunning but on their flat persistence.
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The more reticent ones were urged to interact more with the men, including being prodded not to spend much time in the restroom.
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He headed the players' coalition that prodded owners last December to commit up to $89 million to help grass-roots organizations battle injustice.
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When horrible things start to happen, we don't know what they mean, but we are prodded to suppose that they must mean something.
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When her husband prodded her to do something she loved, "the only thing I could think of was the Cat & Cloud," she says.
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The "grab your wallet" boycott has prodded retailers including Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus and T.J. Maxx to drop merchandise s connected to Ivanka Trump.
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Prodded in part by the utilities' campaign, nearly every state in the country is engaged in a review of its solar energy policies.
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In his 21-year professional career, he has been poked and prodded by a surgeon's knife more times then he cares to remember.
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The 19-year-old striker opened the scoring in the 69th minute when he prodded home Achraf Hakimi's cross at the second attempt.
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But the particular journalistic and logistical challenges of covering this conflict have prodded everyone to use basic technology in new and different ways.
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Their baseline levels of sociability were established through texts that prodded them to answer questions about what they were doing and with whom.
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But the Goths, in turn, were prodded to move against the Romans because of an incursion into Europe of Huns, from central Asia.
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In phone conversations that Mr. Singer knew were being recorded by the F.B.I., he prodded parents to acknowledge their part in shared crimes.
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But progress has been slow, with some critics saying that tech companies only took steps begrudgingly after being publicly prodded by civil rights leaders.
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But, as people become more comfortable with being poked, prodded, fingerprinted, and scanned as they travel, privacy is becoming a fast-evaporating luxury. [CNBC]
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That seems to have caused some consternation on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers prodded Mr. Zuckerberg about why, exactly, they should believe his promises now.
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" She also prodded the two companies a bit, saying that if they were "confident consumers benefit" from the merger, "they should welcome FCC review.
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Former employee Laura Madden told the Times Weinstein prodded her for massages at hotels in the UK; same for Zelda Perkins, a London assistant.
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"Another day, another market being pushed and prodded around by OPEC rhetoric," said Matt Smith, director of commodity research at energy data provider ClipperData.
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In one 20 article he prodded the Ethiopian military to choose the side of the people like the Egyptian military did at the time.
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Hewitt prodded Trump, suggesting the GOP nominee meant that Obama "created the vacuum, he lost the peace," and was not to be taken literally.
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As the campaigns have been repeatedly prodded of late on their possible VP pick, one name is creating a lot of buzz: Elizabeth Warren.
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It's not like he makes a totally unprompted and organic observation about Williams being ranked 26th; he's pushed and prodded into it a bit.
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In a nod to his fiancée Meghan Markle, Harry also prodded Obama to pick which he preferred: TV series Suits or The Good Wife.
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" Co-anchor Craig Melvin then prodded Maples: "Has there been a point where you've been surprised by something the president has said or done?
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After being prodded by Cameron Crowe – who interviewed Styles for the feature – the star joked he was going to the restroom and never returning.
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The songs of both famed artists, now in their 70s, poked and prodded at the nation's military dictatorship that lasted between 1964 and 1985.
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Heath manages to draw new and fascinating stories out of McCartney, who's been prodded into rehashing the same talking points for half a century.
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Her co-star, Robert Redford, looking surprisingly "youthful" at 2216.52, was sitting right next to her while Kelly prodded only Fonda about plastic surgery.
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Behind the scenes, Mr. Christie has prodded his fellow governors and Republican political donors to line up behind a candidate many view with distaste.
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But Turkey knows that both these countries, in the long term, are adversaries and, prodded with sticks, Erdoğan might turn back toward the West.
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Based in Taiwan, Foxconn chose Wisconsin after being prodded by Trump and others, including House Speaker Paul Ryan, whose district will include the plant.
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Madden told the Times that Weinstein consistently "prodded her for massages at hotels," a common theme among the sources the Times's reporters spoke with.
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Later, you'll be comprehensively prodded and probed (no doubt to prepare you for the increased risk of alien abduction that comes with the job).
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Texas Democrats have prodded him on this score as well, but few expect Mr. O'Rourke to confine his ambitions to another state-level race.
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Before the election and after, Mr. Trump prodded Ford, G.M. and others to build plants in the United States instead of Mexico or China.
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" Joy Behar prodded Trump Jr. on how the president views Biden as a 2020 competitor, saying Trump "seems to be petrified of Joe Biden.
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And at a religious retreat in rural New Jersey, after an elder prodded Pedro Hernandez to open up, the words soon came tumbling out.
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I watched a tourist try on sneakers that were on sale, prodded on by his wife and glared at dismissively by the store's workers.
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Prodded by the moderators, virtually everyone on the stage in Wednesday's debate took turns pounding on the billionaire and former mayor of New York.
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A percolating episode, played mostly on mallet instruments, prodded the orchestra to synthesize what had happened along the way, as this engrossing piece concluded.
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According to the people, Bloomberg himself prodded the financiers to open up their donor networks to the Democratic National Committee and state Democratic parties.
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Members of Congress, long indifferent to the enlargement of presidential power, appear to be stirring precisely because Mr. Trump has so consistently prodded them.
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By the summer, Harris' team, which by then included Jim Margolis, prodded her toward unity-focused themes that centered on kitchen table economic issues.
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Mr. Gowdy complained that Mr. Shkreli "didn't have to be prodded to talk" when granting television interviews or tweeting or live-streaming his daily life.
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During his first four weeks in office, President Donald Trump has signed executive orders, met foreign leaders, prodded business chieftains and battled storms of controversy.
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The trend has been prodded along by the movement's discovery of its European counterparts, which have used medieval and crusader imagery since the 19th century.
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Since identity politics is a topic in my scholarship, I prodded Meyer on whether race, rather than class, should be the issue on the table.
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Nowadays, continuity and canon are key concepts, with fans scrutinizing every character and action to make sure the stories they enjoy hold together when prodded.
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They stick closely to their talking points, and when prodded off script they claim ignorance and promise that their staff will look into it later.
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So far that the man who was not long ago the scourge of baseball was prodded about the prospect of one day leading a team.
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I've been poked and prodded and scanned and strapped to a table and cut open and sewn back up over and over and over again.
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If that is the political purpose, then Syriza strategists may even welcome the fact they have prodded the church into showing its traditionalist, authoritarian side.
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Dominating floor space, though, is a fleet of gleaming waiter robots, most of them holding trays as they endure being prodded repeatedly by curious children.
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In November 2010, her deputy chief of staff for operations prodded her about "putting you on State email" to protect her email from spam. Mrs.
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Several Republicans have prodded Trump for his closeness to the Clintons, pointing to their attendance at his wedding and his donations to the Clinton Foundation.
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Prodded by her pal Ariane (Karin Viard), Violette pursues the dorky banking I.T. engineer Jean-René (the star comedian Dany Boon, playing decent straight man).
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They have prodded Mr. Trump to put aside the Republican credo of "repeal and replace" in favor of more modest tweaks to the existing law.
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I theorized that The Players' Tribune had been born as a retaliation to the gossip columnists who had poked and prodded him for so long.
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Prodded by questions a few minutes later, Mr. Hansen acknowledged that Mr. Craddock had notified the city on Friday morning of his intention to resign.
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At times, the debate became a kind of tense colloquy between longtime colleagues, as Mr. Sanders prodded Mr. Biden to account for his past positions.
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But, as Bloomberg reported, Barr prodded his agency to begin its own Facebook inquiry, prompting concerns from both FTC chairman Joe Simons and Republican Sen.
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Tchéky Karyo returns as the French detective Julien Baptiste, prodded out of retirement when Alice's case reveals clues in the disappearance of yet another child.
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Shantil Jones met her adviser, Christopher Almond, at the summer program, and he monitored, counseled and prodded her for the rest of her college career.
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Editorial While much of the nation appears to be adjusting to the transgender rights movement, social conservatives in the Texas Legislature — prodded by Lt. Gov.
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There are others around the fire, painted in chalky blues and purples, chanting and moaning as a young Nat Turner is prodded into the light.
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But as part of the look-back program, the Obama administration successfully prodded some federal agencies to make automatic review of regulations a standard practice.
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President Trump, who lashed out at Mr. Northam in his State of the Union address, prodded Democrats on Twitter Sunday for that perceived double standard.
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His guests — sometimes reporters from the New York Times and sometimes those reporters' sources — have to be gently prodded into carrying the whole story forward.
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On a call with analysts, Solomon and his finance chief, Stephen Scherr, were prodded about the weak results and why the outlook was taking so long.
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Constine prodded both men at the end up of the panel discussion to give the audience even just a tiny hint, and neither took the bait.
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An interviewer had asked her why the film had been banned in Pakistan: "They say it's because of the film's vulgarity, language, and theme," they prodded.
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Prodded by campaign consultants like me, candidates often abandon righteous indignation at a system stacked against working folks for bitter, sarcastic, personal attacks on their opponent.
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Per the ESPN report, Wizards teammate Jeff Green and Brooks prodded Wall and other teammates to raise the level of intensity in a practice last week.
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The Seattle Times reports that deadline pressure prodded the FAA and Boeing to delegate more safety decisions to Boeing engineers working on behalf of the FAA.
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"As the person responsible for putting you on RHONY, I take offense to you misrepresenting the truth & saying producers prodded you to drink," tweeted Frankel, 47.
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"Starting at the level of individual pieces and components, we poked, prodded, stretched, squeezed, bent, and twisted everything used to build these vehicles," the company said.
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Prodded by Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Monday, Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell shrugged off a request for more than 10 hours of open debate.
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Indeed, as Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis was delivering a press conference, the man was still on the ground, being prodded by a bomb-squad robot.
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His dogged research, coupled with help from an Illinois high school teacher, Barry Bradford, and his students, uncovered evidence that prodded prosecutors to reopen the investigation.
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When his parents took him to his pediatrician, and then a specialist in Seattle, he was poked and prodded, jabbed in the back with needles; nothing.
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Tulsi Gabbard on foreign policy, chided O'Rourke on gun policy, and prodded Warren to ask whether her "Medicare for All" plan would increase middle-class taxes.
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In the past two weeks he has prodded, tweeted and shamed giants of the industrial firmament to align their business decisions with his "America First" ideology.
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Instead, it was Sergio Agüero, City's Argentine forward, who was featured most prominently early on, as he poked and prodded, searching for an opportunity to punish.
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Obama prodded lawmakers to give the proposal a "fair hearing" even in an election year, when concerns about terrorism are front and center on voters' minds.
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But in a panel discussion that followed, he prodded a legal analyst, Mercedes Colwin, to explain why a woman might make a false claim of assault.
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In 2009, North Korea walked out — ending, to China's dismay, the so-called six-party talks that Beijing had nurtured and prodded along for six years.
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Among the three directors that the home retailer is adding is David Batchelder of Relational Investors, who has long prodded for change at companies like Hess.
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And when we prodded him on how exactly the site would accomplish these aspirations, he said the site needs to be a healthier and safer environment.
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Each couple made two visits to the lab, where the partners were prodded to talk about the issues that caused the most conflict in their relationship.
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A recent study from the Grantham Research Institute found that the mere existence of Paris had prodded dozens of countries to enact new clean-energy laws.
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And he has prodded some companies into cooperating by calling them out on Twitter or in other public venues, or by pressuring them with his policies.
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Prodded by the tour guide, Marty McNamee, a third-generation miner with a scraggly beard and a light-up helmet, Hunter approached a rusted track mucker.
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Each one will be groomed and pampered, allowed a few snacks and even a nap or two, and then poked and prodded and allowed to preen.
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The approach may have prodded China to finally use its leverage with North Korea, but it also entails serious risks overseas and could backfire at home.
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" At the back of a bar at the Hard Rock Hotel, London prodded his longtime friend about the swirling Trump headlines: "What's all this bulls**t?
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There I was prodded and repositioned — can you press in your chest, turn your head to the left, lower it, move your torso to the right?
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Yet, while the Turkish incursion in northern Syria may have prodded European governments to address repatriations, it may have made the returns more complicated, analysts said.
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When prodded on the topic, executives told investors that an update would be coming in April, and that the board was committed to an annual dividend.
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After a global wave of figurative painting that poked, prodded and examined the human body from every perspective, the art world is now overrun with critters.
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The Joker has pushed, cranked, prodded, threatened, and assaulted (physically and psychologically) Batman to the point where there's nothing holding him back from killing the Joker.
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Obama's version of the Clean Power Plan (which is currently being challenged in court) would've prodded many states to shift from coal to cleaner gas and renewables.
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The lower bleachers dotted with exhausted grandparents who prodded their charges to run ragged, while they sat stonily on the metal benches, dreaming of their home countries.
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I had an "inspiration wall" full of thin women, and I poked and prodded my body in the mirror waiting for the day I looked like them.
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She attributes this increase in sales to her social media and email marketing strategy, which may have brought in new customers and prodded current ones to buy.
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A Seattle Times report revealed that deadline pressure prodded the FAA and Boeing to delegate more safety decisions to Boeing engineers working on behalf of the FAA.
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During his "pregame" chat with Underwood, for example, Harrison was prodded to ask about the star's virginity but waited until later to weave it into their conversation.
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Last week, the two sides squared off in court, and the judge prodded Puerto Rico's board to reduce the loan to $300 million and rework its terms.
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Trump has prodded China to rein in its unruly neighbor but many analysts don't share the White House's confidence in Beijing's ability to force change from Pyongyang.
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He is a politician focused firmly on the needs of everyday Americans who can now count among his achievements an honorable campaign that prodded Democrats to attention.
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In return, prosecutors said, Mr. McDonnell hosted a promotional party for the pill at the governor's mansion and prodded state universities to help research the supplement's benefits.
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The judge and federal prosecutors have prodded Gates and Manafort to provide proof of their worth and home values if they'd like to change their bail terms.
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Adults in the audience are prodded to recapture their long-lost moviegoing innocence, while their young companions are patiently directed to giggle warmly or gasp in amazement.
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Sasse prodded the billionaire about issues including his past marital infidelities, warm words for single-payer healthcare and remarks suggesting praise for higher taxes and gun control.
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It all started on Tuesday, when Mr. Trump, prodded by questions about the deaths of four American soldiers in Niger, called Myeshia Johnson, the widow of Sgt.
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It looks like a hand-made form that was bent, prodded, and poked into its shape, a vaguely menacing sock puppet able to stand up for itself.
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If the scandal hadn't prodded Volkswagen to start at the end of 2015, the company might not be in a position to mass-produce electric cars today.
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Networks, including ESPN, which signed a 10-year deal with the Ivy League last year, have unsuccessfully prodded the league to start earlier or play midweek games.
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A recent study from the Grantham Research Institute found that the mere existence of the accord had prodded dozens of countries to enact new clean-energy laws.
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City's two goals might have been "disgraceful," as Mourinho said, ugly strikes off set pieces with the ball bouncing chaotically in the box before being prodded home.
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Representative Trey Gowdy, Republican of South Carolina, complained that Mr. Shkreli "didn't have to be prodded to talk" when granting television interviews, tweeting or live-streaming his life.
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A source who met earlier this month with Trump transition officials said the officials prodded leaders of veterans groups on VA health care reform, including privatizing VA services.
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During Tuesday's premiere episode of Carpool Karaoke: The Series, host James Corden prodded Will Smith about whether or not he's considered playing the 44th president, as People reports.
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But even early proofs-of-concept, and hybrid machines that marry quantum and classical computers, have prodded companies to nervously dole out cash to stay in the loop.
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In Russia, that work fell to the Russian LGBT Network, which set up a hotline and safe houses for those wanting to escape and prodded embassies to act.
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Clinton gloats and Trump fumes She prodded Trump on his treatment of women and offered an emotive defense of Obama over the GOP nominee's so-called birther crusade.
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Mark Cuban prodded Tesla CEO Elon Musk to settle his dispute with the Securities and Exchange Commission over charges he defrauded investors, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
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However, growing pressure from legislators unwilling to endorse tax hikes has prodded the government to consider a less ambitious target and raise the deficit goal, the sources said.
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Prodded on whether all this makes for sound business in an age obsessed with corporate governance, Mr Chaudhary is unapologetic: when in Rome, do as the Romans do.
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He also has criticized automakers for moving jobs and investment in new manufacturing facilities to Mexico and prodded them to add more auto production in the United States.
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Ohio's Republican-led Legislature, prodded by the gun lobby, has barred local governments like Cleveland from having stronger gun controls, all the while encouraging citizens to arm themselves.
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Women are less likely than men to be encouraged by parents, teachers or party leaders to run — yet they are also less likely to run without being prodded.
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Prodded by the hosts, Calloway opened up about her past Adderall addiction, which she said affected her interactions with Beach and all her other friends throughout her 20s.
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Mr. Obama prodded Mr. Castro, clearly uncomfortable being placed on the spot by journalists, to engage in a give-and-take that is a hallmark of American democracy.
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Rogan, who openly admired the CEO throughout the podcast, prodded Musk to celebrate his Boring Company, which aims to solve our traffic woes by building giant, underground tunnels.
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At the defense, five professors prodded her with questions in the manner of a dental scaler scraping away plaque—an excavation that Chuang seemed to enjoy in proportion.
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Prodded by Medicare, the number of accountable care organizations has soared to 230 in 2016 from roughly 75 in 2012, according to Oliver Wyman, a Chicago consulting firm.
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In such states, Fox News and conservative talk radio have artfully prodded white fears to great effect, but about 40 percent of voters routinely reject the Republican Party.
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At one point, she prodded Mr. Barr into saying that he had not examined the underlying evidence before deciding not to charge the president with obstruction of justice.
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According to the team, similar reactions in the plants were evoked when the researchers gently touched the plants, prodded them with tweezers, or cast a shadow over them.
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Each Oval Office meeting would begin with McCabe being prodded to acknowledge what he knew to be false: that the F.B.I. work force adored Trump and despised Comey.
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But he was undercut a month later when Mr. Trump, prodded by his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, told President Xi Jinping that he would honor the policy.
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Mnuchin signed on as his Treasury secretary to become his apologist, and was prodded to vouch for the president along lines having nothing to do with his portfolio.
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Even semi-public figures can expect to be poked and prodded into a reaction — to score political points or just for sport — and then be castigated for reacting.
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Mr. Rove's lawyer, Robert D. Luskin, was credited with unearthing email evidence that prodded his client to amend his testimony — and possibly spared him an indictment for perjury.
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Beyond the obvious value in passing the blame off on Iran, Russia stands to benefit politically and economically if America is prodded into a hotter conflict with Tehran.
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The schoolyard bully poked and prodded a hostile enemy until it responded, then made up a story about pending terrorist attacks and his awesome response to the threat.
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Corrections officials poked and prodded him for more than 28500 minutes in a failed attempt to find a vein suitable for the lethal drugs they wanted to inject.
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On Wednesday, Kevin Hart definitively ruled out hosting the Oscars on "Good Morning America," even though he had been prodded to reconsider during an interview with Ellen DeGeneres.
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In our hearts, we assume everybody in the NFL suffers concussions, everybody in the NFL plays whilst needle-prodded by Toradol, and everybody in the NFL does HGH.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In the 423s, New York City commuters were prodded into respectful behavior by subway posters featuring a black-and-white tuxedo cat.
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Stagnant wages, sluggish job growth and lagging capital investment never prodded President Obama to reach out to the business community or to partner with it in reviving the economy.
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Prodded about the lack of controversy coming out of the camp compared to past Red Devils' travels, Martinez made no excuses: "We do want to be boring," he said.
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Some I gently patted, some I prodded, and one I pulled the covers off and tried to roll onto the floor when the pat and the prod fell short.
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In January, prodded by Rob Bishop, a Republican congressman from Utah, Congress changed a key budget rule that will make it easier for such a transfer to take place.
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Why it matters: The Times reported earlier that deadline pressure prodded the FAA and Boeing to delegate more safety decisions to Boeing engineers working on behalf of the FAA.
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There once was a legendary troll, and from its hideout beneath an overpass of the information superhighway, it prodded into existence the internet we know, love, and increasingly loathe.
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Under Armour, the US-based sporting apparel company that sponsors him, has probed and prodded Xhaka to find out what makes him tick when he's not on the field.
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Mr. Hatch's staff, tweeting later from his official account, posted a longer video of the exchange and prodded some reporters online to look at the whole comments in context.
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Nonetheless, Obama prodded Trump in the piece, saying that "the latest science and economics provide a helpful guide for what the future may bring" in terms of energy policy.
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Foxconn chose Wisconsin for its new factory after being prodded by Trump and others, including outgoing House Speaker Paul Ryan, whose congressional district in Wisconsin will host the plant.
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Prodded along by his White House physician and the knowledge he is approaching obesity, Trump agreed earlier this year to alter his diet and begin a new exercise plan.
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Mr. Obama, who was determined to mark the occasion with a news conference — something Mr. Castro seldom if ever does — prodded the Cuban leader to submit to journalists' questions.
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Donor states have prodded the Jordanian government to relax labor laws to allow thousands of refugees to work legally in industrial parks and businesses near big camps like Zaatari.
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I was poked and prodded, pushed out of my comfort zone, all in the name of discovering whether I was worthy to join the highest ranks of the cult.
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This past summer, I interviewed Mr. Peres for an article about the 40th anniversary of the now legendary Entebbe raid, which he had prodded a skeptical government to authorize.
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"I know there are patients who bristle at being 'manhandled' or poked and prodded, and after being sick for 20 years, that doesn't bother me at all," she said.
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And in a setting where patients routinely feel poked and prodded, isolated and immobile, the act of nurturing a plant can be a transportive part of the recovery process.
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Prodded by his hawkish national security adviser, John Bolton, Trump apparently believes he can bring Iran to its knees, perhaps even precipitate regime change, through new and restored sanctions.
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Mr. de Blasio had pleaded and prodded lawmakers to act — unsuccessfully — while Mr. Cuomo, who prides himself on deal-making, failed to lead the parties to an acceptable agreement.
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As hotels and bars stock up on alcohol, some hot-spring resorts have been prodded to relax their rules on tattoos, which in Japan are associated with yakuza mobsters.
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A rural businessman selling liquid soap and fertiliser decided to expand into solar lights, water filters and cooking stoves after his mentor prodded him to look for unmet needs.
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A lawyer for disgruntled students also quizzed Trump on whether he was aware that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman prodded Trump University to change its name in 2005.
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But prodded to spar, the candidates more often chose to strike at President Trump, whether the subject was Iran and troops in the Middle East, health care or impeachment.
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Some brokers chafed as Bank of America raised new client account minimums to $250,000 worth of assets and prodded them to refer business to other parts of the bank.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was trailing in the polls going into the final week of campaigning, prodded his party, Likud, on Election Day by sounding the tribalist alarum.
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But the governor made it clear that his decision came down to his own conscience, prodded by impending decisions such as whether to support the state's lethal injection protocol.
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When prodded by Motherboard, agencies such as the EPA have rebutted claims that the changes are symbolic of Trump's anti-science attitude, saying that website updates are simply routine housekeeping.
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It's because regulators around the world—prodded by revelations of Volkswagen's dirty diesels and the Paris climate accord—are making plans to ban sales of gasoline- and diesel-powered cars.
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And from being pushed — pushed, prodded — by my son Hunter, and my wife Jill, and my daughter, there is … we just had a family meeting with all the grandkids, too.
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CHICAGO — In the medical field, "empathy fatigue" is used to describe a state of exhaustion when compassion towards patients becomes tiring, as practitioners' own anxieties and stresses are continuously prodded.
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It seems like almost everybody has one on, and cubicle dwellers everywhere are being prodded to walk a few more steps ... walk a few more steps ... a ... few ... more ... steps.
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Never one to shy away from the hard-hitting questions, Ellen DeGeneres prodded Kris a bit about both Kylie and Khloe's pregnancies on an early November episode of her show.
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Identified only as Andy, the officer prodded Mateen to give information about himself, because police didn't know the identify of the caller or whether he was actually inside the nightclub.
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"I love just being there and having someone's back," Gomez told SiriusXM's Morning Mash Up of "being supportive" after being prodded about joining the Weeknd for part of his tour.
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Knowing NYC's absurd market fairly well, and feeling the limitations of my then-public radio salary, I couldn't believe my luck and prodded her to ensure the rate was real.
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Prodded by lawmakers, Pichai repeatedly said the company had "no plans" to launch a search product in China — a statement that's consistent with ongoing development with no official release date.
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Buying MoneyGram would not bring cutting-edge technology—its core activity is cash remittances—but would give Ant licences abroad and clients who could be prodded to use digital services.
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The embrace of capitalism by populous Asian nations like China and India has prodded incomes up, even if it was paired with stagnant middle class incomes in the wealthy world.
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And while some warily accepted the term and went about their business making music, others like Joan of Arc ignored it completely as they prodded deeper into the the unexpected.
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In 2008 and 2012 President Barack Obama did not just win 60% or more of votes cast by millennials, he prodded record-breaking numbers of the young to turn out.
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Dundee had had years of experience with colorless fighters who said, "I'll do my talking in the ring," and he encouraged and even prodded the river-mouth to keep flowing.
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Feinstein prodded Comey about the Oval Office meeting in which he claims Trump told him he hoped the FBI investigation into former National Security Adviser Mike Flynn could be dropped.
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Students who stop tracking are prodded both by their teachers and by their peers, who are expected to point out classmates who aren't looking at them when they are speaking.
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Prodded by Mr. Rana, "we made a plan to kill Islam's and Prophet Muhammad's insulter Thaba Baba by identifying him," the student, Faisal Bin Nayeem, 24, said in the statement.
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So when the world's second-largest carbon dioxide emitter decides not to play ball, it drastically weakens how much other countries can be shamed or prodded into limiting their emissions.
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As they began playing with wooden blocks, Ms. Cram gently prodded Grant to share what he went through with his parents and how he was adjusting to his foster home.
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And in three separate hearings on Capitol Hill, senators prodded the Trump administration to do more with its existing authorities to deter Russia and protect the United States' political infrastructure.
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Put on display from Europe to North America, they were poked and prodded, laughed at, marveled over, called freaks and monsters, and expected to feel ashamed of who they were.
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The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) has yet to weigh in on the race but will likely be prodded to get involved after the party's strong special election showings elsewhere.
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Warren and Sanders, US Senate colleagues who often say they consider each other friends, have so far declined to criticize each other on the trail — even when prodded by reporters.
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When the Knicks faced Atlanta's Dwight Howard, Hernangomez pushed and prodded and defended until Howard, one of the league's great redwoods, finally had had enough, throwing an elbow at Hernangomez.
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From high-speed trains to wind turbines, China has long prodded American, European and Japanese companies to hand over their know-howin exchange for access to its exciting new market.
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As the decade wore on, The Chattanooga Times emphasized 'gradualism' in the dismantling of segregation, while Arthur prodded the paper to echo the harder line of The New York Times.
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The group also prodded the 2020 candidates to support federal workforce development programs and expand the Small Business Administration's investment programs for employee-owned, minority-owned, and women-owned businesses.
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For years, the Obama administration prodded, cajoled and beseeched China to make commitments to limit the use of fossil fuels to try to slow the global effects of climate change.
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Instead, we now have a leader who grasps, all too well, the ways in which our sporting spirit can be prodded to reveal the darkest precincts of our national soul.
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Ted Cruz, is being prodded by his top donors and supporters to make a run for either the White House or Texas' other U.S. Senate seat in 2020, CNBC has learned.
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"It's not in charge of me, I'm in charge of it," she said, laughing as she walked in a circle around the room after being pinned and prodded for fit adjustments.
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But it's Novik's great gift to be able to write characters who seem to create their fairy-tale patterns organically, without being prodded into place by the shape of the story.
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After all, there are still plenty of states that aren't really thinking about decarbonization, like West Virginia or Missouri, and the Clean Power Plan would have prodded them in that direction.
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Seal with foil and cook for about 1 1/2 hours, or until the meat on the legs just begins to pull away from the bone when prodded with a fork.
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Mr. Jeffries and Mr. Stringer have both prodded him on matters of policy: Mr. Stringer issuing audits from his perch as comptroller, Mr. Jeffries employing the megaphone that federal office provides.
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And in a pre-buttal to Sanders' speech, Clinton chief financial officer Gary Gensler, the former head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, prodded Sanders to endorse Clinton's Wall Street plan.
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Over the course of several months, the researchers recorded about 1,000 videos of an estimated 46,000 sounds that represented an array of objects being hit, scraped, and prodded by a drumstick.
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Mr. Vickers, the former sergeant-at-arms to Canada's House of Commons, is now ambassador to Ireland, and his actions prodded old wounds from a century of Irish conflict with Britain.
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When President Donald Trump went to West Virginia this month to tout the Republican tax plan, his main political target in the state prodded the president on two major issues. Sen.
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Prodded by Mr. Martin's own legal filings from prison, and by his lawyer, James D. Henning, the district attorney's office had dug into the case files and found the two documents.
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As the "Hamilton" controversy raged, prodded by Mr. Trump's demand that the cast apologize to Mr. Pence, Breitbart pointedly reminded readers of the private fund-raiser Mr. Miranda hosted for Mrs.
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Right-wing personalities and media organizations have given Trump little, if any, room to negotiate his way out of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history -- which they prodded him into.
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As the revival prodded Will, Grace, and Jack to grapple with their advancing years, it largely left Karen alone, allowing her room to play the chaotic evil role she's always relished.
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Mr. Comey said Mr. Trump prodded him to publicly exonerate the president on the question of Russian collusion and encouraged him to shut down an investigation into his national security adviser.
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Throughout, both Ms. Pelosi and Mr. Schumer made clear that they believed it was unproductive to negotiate in public and repeatedly prodded the president to move the discussion behind closed doors.
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Prodded by some House Democrats, in late November she agreed to establish a more open process for working on legislation and to allow more votes on amendments supported by both parties.
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Prodded about the dismal representation of black officers on the city force, Mr. Buttigieg listed other steps the city had taken to improve race relations, including bias training for public employees.
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It's counterintuitive, but our democracy has often been at its best when our constitutional soul has been poked and prodded and has stood up on its hind legs to defend itself.
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But the seizure of the Adrian Darya 1—with its 2.1m barrels of oil—threw a spanner in the works, not least because Britain was prodded into action by American intelligence.
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From high-speed trains to wind turbines, China has long prodded American, European and Japanese companies to hand over their know-how in exchange for access to its exciting new market.
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And the day was capped by the even more stunning revelation that the president had prodded Mr. Comey to drop an investigation into Michael T. Flynn, his former national security adviser.
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Prodded by Ms. Ford, who did not respond to emails seeking comment, a cavalry of do-gooders arrived from Twitter and elsewhere, restoring the bookstore's online reputation and visiting in droves.
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She thinks that big companies often need to be prodded forcefully to do right by their employees, but that it's bad policy and bad politics to paint them as the enemy.
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The idea is that sicker people who use more health services know to buy insurance, but healthy people — the ones who bring down costs for everyone — have to be prodded and reminded.
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Jenner gave her friend some guidance as she poked and prodded her way around her face while attempting to blend out concealer, chisel her cheekbones with contour and swipe on liquid lipstick.
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The first phase is called development, where the idea is sown in fertile ground, doused in some creative juice and poked and prodded for a while to see what it grows into.
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The small, shiny mountain they formed immediately spoke to the labor-intensive act, but also recalled a sludgy oil spill, which prodded me to consider the film industry's impact on the environment.
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After threatening backlash for members of the hardline conservative House Freedom Caucus in the morning, he prodded specific members of the group to get behind his agenda more than eight hours later.
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When prodded by me during a panel discussion at the conference, Moe said the company's operations in France are considered clean — largely because France gets 75% of its electricity from nuclear power.
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It can also be a very annoying addition to your existence, rather akin to being prodded by someone whose sole purpose is to inform you of horrifying news from around the world.
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Tampons, which aren't widely available in some areas, are pawed and prodded and waved around in the kind of loud confusion one might imagine in a scene of a Seth Rogen movie.
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Washington has for years made lifting the ban contingent on Vietnam's improving human rights for its people, and has prodded Vietnam to allow more freedom of speech and to release political prisoners.
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Her injured friend was scanned and prodded; then, as she was wheeled into the operating room, screens listed procedures to be done, and one that should be delayed concerned her mangled hand.
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David Cameron, the British prime minister prodded into holding the referendum by the right of his Conservative Party, said he would resign, staying on in a caretaker capacity for a few months.
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Mr. Trump did promise, perhaps prodded by the cheers, that even if Mr. Gingrich was not on the ticket, he would have a presence in the campaign and a potential Trump administration.
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Anna Chu, vice president for strategy and policy at the National Women's Law Center, said tax credits rarely prodded businesses — particularly those that employ lower-income workers — to create a new benefit.
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Isco, his Real Madrid teammate, was the dominant player on the field here, the one who was most involved, who prompted and probed and prodded, and he was wearing a Spain jersey.
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Instead, prodded by Mr. Trump, Mr. Sessions pushed federal prosecutors to more strictly enforce background check violations and ban bump stocks, a device that can help semiautomatic weapons fire like machine guns.
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But the shock seems to have prodded regional tourism authorities to come around to the view of locals, who have long regarded the island's mountainous interior as its singular claim to fame.
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In "A Study of A Samoan Savage" (2015), Kihara has photographed the Samoan artist Ioane Ioane who poses as the Polynesian demi-god Maui as he's poked and prodded by medical instruments.
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They're filled with water to test for leaks, stretched to the breaking point, poked, prodded, and finally aged for seven days—all to make sure they hold up in your time of need.
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Last year, President Trump, reportedly prodded by President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan, had considered the nation's vast mineral wealth as a reason to continue the war, which is now in its 16th year.
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The growing uncertainty in developed markets created by events like Brexit and Donald Trump's upset election has prodded investors to seek securities that won't sink if U.S. or European stocks take a dive.
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Yes, all of the hijinks and infighting and "shocking twists" did technically occur, but no one is watching a documentary here — storylines and behaviors are massaged, prodded, and edited for maximum viewer impact.
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Paul Ryan's a star It would have been easy to mistake the recently minted House speaker as one of the candidates on Saturday, as he deftly prodded them on the issue of poverty.
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On Wednesday, members of the moderate Tuesday Group were reportedly resentful that they were being prodded to meet with conservative Republicans to discuss how the repeal-and-replacement effort could move forward. Axios.
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In 2010, Italian banks, prodded by the central bank and Italian investigating magistrates, stopped dealing with the IOR, and in 2012 Italy blocked the use of debit and credit cards in the Vatican.
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An example of a dark pattern is when LinkedIn prodded users to let it email their contacts with either an invitation to join the users' network or create an account on the service.
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At the computer, prodded out of the rhythm of browsing, I tried to imagine the meetings that led to this catalog model being placed in this hoodie, in the vacuum of commercial space.
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Your loved one, lying still and lifeless in their silk-lined coffin, has been plucked, shaved, prodded and drained by professionals in a clinical, clean backroom, away from the eyes of the mourning.
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Rumors soon began to surface that the DOJ, the SEC, and the FTC, prodded by banking lobbyists, worked behind the scenes and lobbied lawmakers not to bring the legislation up for a vote.
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"She's my responsibility and I must bring her up as I see fit," Doris tells Fred Gailey (John Payne), when prodded as to why Susan doesn't believe in Santa Claus or fairy tales.
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But they have previously argued that their clients had been manipulated or prodded by the F.B.I., and that they had been unfairly targeted for exercising their rights to free speech and gun ownership.
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The agency leaned on this type of research in proposing to ban an insecticide called chlorpyrifos in late 22016, and has been repeatedly prodded to take action on the chemical by federal courts.
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At the moment, much of the debate revolves around the mandate's potential impact on tax reform: Senate Republicans, prodded by President Trump, will include a repeal of the mandate in their tax legislation.
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Yes, but: Most big companies subject to the law — like Google, Wells Fargo and Disney — have had women on their boards for years, prodded, in some cases, by backlash against all-male boardrooms.
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In a similar fashion, prodded by the Missouri delegation, Congress added two different versions of Boeing's F-18 aircraft to the budget to keep funds flowing to that company's St. Louis area plant.
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Mr. Marshall, as director of the Office of Net Assessment, was the secretive futurist of the Pentagon, a long-range thinker who both prodded and inspired secretaries of defense and high-level policymakers.
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Could a justice who'd held elected office have prodded the majority to think harder about its claim that political contributions to "independent" groups "do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption"?
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Like the fact it was a dare—a double-doughnut dare, if you will—involving Grande and her then-boyfriend Ricky Alvarez, who also prodded one of Wolfee Donuts powdered delights with his tongue.
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They prodded the witnesses to explain how single payer could fix some of the current system's problems and pushed back against some of the common attacks against such a proposal, like its price tag.
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Behind the scenes, a number of senators, donors and leading party officials have privately prodded Rubio to make a late entry into the race to prevent his seat from flipping, several sources told CNN.
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It sounds as though the Atlanta four-piece has finally found their sound, after years of being pushed and prodded towards what other people thought they should be, and the end result is sublime.
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And, prodded by the release of a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, Weld ratcheted up his rhetoric against the President, calling for his resignation.
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The family and friends, suffering in the wake of such loss, now have to compose themselves for Matt's annual review hearings—a well-oiled machine to be prodded, pressed, and observed by the media.
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Try this dim sum spot in Hong Kong, where oatcakes are shaped like cartoonish turds and kawaii buns with faces are made to be poked and prodded with chopsticks until they puke their filling.
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Even Depression-era protectionism arguably played a role: Sandra Comstock, a sociologist at Reed College in Oregon, has written that tariffs on imported French clothing prodded department stores to promote domestic fashions including jeans.
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I probed and prodded until I finally found out that while premiums were 15% lower, they were charged three times per year rather than the semiannual quotes I was getting from all other insurers.
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Ms. Sutherland prodded me to follow them for the big reveal: Cala Violina, an inviting crescent-shaped beach with water so clear that the small fish swimming in it had no place to hide.
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The final conclusion is sure to be a major flashpoint in a probe that has largely prodded along behind the scenes, as lawmakers and committee staff interview witnesses and prepare reports on their findings.
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In an interview, Ms. Bowen said the union's strike authorization vote, among other factors, most likely prodded state and CUNY officials to resolve the contract before the end of the legislative session in Albany.
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The urgency of dealing with rising NPLs has not only increased the capital needs of companies such as Huarong, but also prodded Beijing to encourage the creation of more managers to handle bad loan.
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The feeling of standing in nondescript rooms in the US Embassy, watching my father plead for asylum with bored immigration clerks and being prodded by equally bored quarantine doctors is something I'll never forget.
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Now it is the European Union, prodded by a beleaguered Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and overwhelmed by 1.3 million asylum seekers last year, that is desperate to deter as many migrants as possible.
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To find out, Bossio gathered 62 men (about half were circumcised, half were intact) in the Ontario area to have their penises prodded by various tools to assess sensitivity to touch, pain, and heat.
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The euro move prodded the dollar into positive territory after it plumbed five-week lows against its peers in the wake of the Federal Reserve's cautious message this week on future interest rate hikes.
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Graham prodded Wray to tell the assembled senators that "any threat or effort to interfere with our elections from any nation-state, or any non-state actor" ought to be reported to the FBI.
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While Mr. Corker said it was "not something that's pleasant" to be the only Senate Republican to oppose the tax bill, his colleagues were generally respectful of his decision and only prodded him gently.
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Businesses, lawmakers and advertisers, prodded in large part by a frank online discussion of menstrual cycles and backed by calls for gender equality, have sought ways to make menstrual cycles a little less agonizing.
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Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue supports the plan, in principle, but has been prodded by Mr. Trump's domestic policy adviser Andrew Bremberg to take more decisive action on the issue, according to two administration officials.
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The government's top diplomat, Wang Yi, prodded officials at a foreign ministry gathering last month to display stronger "fighting spirit" in the face of international challenges, three sources with knowledge of the matter said.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Billionaire Warren Buffett prodded ordinary investors on Saturday to stay invested in U.S. stocks, ignoring price swings, guidance from people with fancy credentials and the temptation to load up on bonds.
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During his hearing, members prodded Zinke on his views of climate science: He said he believes the climate is changing but that efforts to combat that need to balance energy industry jobs as well.
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Nearly 30 states require their utilities to seek at least some of their power from renewable sources; cities, prodded by former mayors like Michael Bloomberg, have increasingly been sharing ideas about emissions-cutting practices.
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What we've learned since then is that such ads were part of a larger plan — that the Internet Research Agency sought to produce ads that specifically prodded the racial and cultural fractures of America.
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Beto O'Rourke, who became a Democratic superstar during his competitive but ultimately losing campaign against Ted Cruz, is being prodded to make a run for the White House or Texas' other Senate seat in 2020.
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We'd already been prodded into solemn joy, thrilled by song and dance, and, toward the end of the evening, ushered into the state of bright, shattering anguish that the play's title promises will surely come.
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But in September, prodded by his daughter, Ivanka, Mr Trump said he wanted to allow the costs of child care to be deducted from income taxes and to introduce six weeks of paid maternity leave.
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The biggest rise in German industrial orders for more than two years in October prodded the single currency higher EUR= before a report on the possibility of Italian elections as soon as February unnerved investors.
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One woman, pulled over for a missing headlight, was asked to remove all her clothes for no apparent reason while standing on the sidewalk before being prodded around her bra and in her anal cavity.
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He's prodded by Dumbledore to pursue the fugitive, leading him, his muggle pal Jacob (Dan Fogler) and the Ministry of Magic's Tina Goldstein (Katherine Waterston) on a hell-bent chase across Paris in the 1920s.
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Twelve minutes later, Messi and Díaz collided after Messi had prodded the ball into space on another menacing move, and Lopes ran over holding a second yellow card for Díaz, reducing Chile to 10 men.
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None of this may matter to the domestic Saudi institutions and retail investors who will be asked, if not forcibly prodded, to soak up a slice of 2%-22% of Aramco hitting the Riyadh market.
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Trump has prodded Japanese automakers to add more jobs in the United States as the White House threatens to impose tariffs of up to 25 percent on imported vehicles, on the grounds of national security.
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In the first episode of Untucked The Vixen said that if she wasn't going to be in a fight she was going to start a fight and she's provoked and prodded all around her since.
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With the boundaries of acceptable discourse constantly prodded and pushed, Danish society is becoming ever more inured to xenophobia, says Brian Arly Jacobsen, a sociologist who studies the role of religion in the public sphere.
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The outspoken Davis often prodded executives at shareholder meetings, and she and some observers believed she helped to make companies more responsive to small shareholder requests, though in recent years she had had few successes.
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When Gross prodded them a little more, they told her to listen to it, that you can just hear it in the effortless way Franklin sings and how the arrangement is crafted to enhance that.
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We only see Mekas twice in the film, and the first time is at the very beginning: prodded by a voice off-screen, he begins with a story about the first image he remembers making.
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Sherwani says the startup is making due with "no funding, 100% bootstrapped, and I'd like to keep it that way" so he can control his destiny rather than being prodded for an exit by investors.
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It is not clear what they discussed, but Mr. Trump suggested on Thursday that China might have prodded Mr. Kim to threaten to cancel the summit meeting between the two leaders planned for June 12.
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More than a decade later, the acceleration of problems driven by climate change has prodded mayors to increase once again their efforts on renewable energy, fleet maintenance, transportation (perhaps the hardest issue) and building design.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, prodded by a reporter, said his government was not planning to arm itself to carry out pre-emptive strikes on North Korea, but he stopped short of rejecting the idea outright.
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The White House, led by the president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, began working on it in July, prodded by David Krone, a chief of staff to Senator Harry Reid, a Democrat who has retired.
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Judge Dan Aaron Polster of the Federal District Court of Northern Ohio, who is overseeing the trial and all the federal cases, has prodded the parties to reach a global settlement that resolves all claims.
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U.S. District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who's presiding over the federal suits in San Diego, also prodded the two sides in those cases to meet with another judge to try to work out a settlement.
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This prodded the columnist Michael Goodwin to lament that young people "don't understand the history of our country," which, as noted above, is not true if you look at the history of U.S. tax laws.
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Chelsea were suffering late nerves as a dogged West Brom threatened to prolong the title race but Belgian international Batshuayi prodded home the winner after 82 minutes to spark manic celebrations from triumphant manager Antonio Conte.
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One swept a vitamin-rich mask across my hairline with a brush, while another prodded my head with an electrical suction device meant to "stimulate the follicles" but really just felt like an intensive scalp massage.
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The technical term is Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR), and if you have it, chances are you'll get the tingles from the soft crackling sound of the kinetic sand gently being prodded with a knitting needle.
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As consumers of culture, we are lulled into passivity or, at best, prodded toward a state of pseudo-semi-self-awareness, encouraged toward either the defensive group identity of fandom or a shallow, half-ironic eclecticism.
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Yes, it's true that Clinton in 1996 referred to certain young black men as "superpredators," a characterization she has since said that she regrets (though not until she was prodded by a Black Lives Matter activist).
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Cruz has raised his decades-old ties to mafia bosses who controlled New York's construction industry and prodded Trump to reveal what he told The New York Times in an off-the-record conversation about immigration.
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Even as Trump threatened tariffs and prodded his NAFTA partners, 11 nations gathered in Chile to sign a landmark Asia-Pacific trade pact, one that Trump withdrew from on his first day in office last year.
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Add a candidate, Mr Trump, whose narcissistic bullying has prodded every sore point and amplified every angry sentiment, and you have a country that, despite its strengths, is at risk of a severe self-inflicted wound.
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Stauffer's "Giants" showed us how much Douglass's prophetic force poked and prodded Lincoln toward righteousness, but Douglass himself was deeply affected by Lincoln's example of the power of liberal party politics to make real change happen.
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Behind Davis were young people with Afros and wearing bell-bottoms, there to remind TV viewers that it was Nixon who had prodded Congress to stop the military draft and lower the voting age to 18.
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I understand intuitively that for these artists freedom would not be, could not be taken for granted — it would be prodded and poked, dragged and stretched to find out how free being free actually might be.
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Trump prodded China to offer more at the bargaining table as the two countries prepared for their first major negotiation in more than two months in an effort to head off an all-out trade war.
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Laura Madden, a former employee who said Mr. Weinstein prodded her for massages at hotels in Dublin and London beginning in 1991, said he had a way of making anyone who objected feel like an outlier.
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So his parents, who arrived in the United States as graduate students in 1972, have campaigned for him at Korean churches and restaurants, and Mr. Kang has prodded local Korean-language media to cover him more.
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Above all, we believed that cost-effective technologies were available to improve vehicle efficiency at a reasonable cost to consumers and that the domestic auto industry, stagnant in 2009, would benefit from being prodded to innovate.
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From that first walk (which was followed, it should be noted, by a late blown lead and crushing loss to Georgia Tech), Swinney pushed and prodded and raised Clemson — finally — to the place he had imagined.
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Mr. Biden said he was "being prodded" by his wife and two children but acknowledged he had been uneasy about "taking the family through what would be a very, very, very difficult campaign" against Mr. Trump.
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He has also consistently prodded Congress to move quickly on tax issues, particularly since late summer, and congressional aides say the bill would not be advancing at such a dizzying pace if not for his pressure.
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After visiting to try on the fawn Donat a second time last week, my shopping companion prodded me out the door with a reminder that I would wreck the shoes in two seconds if I bought them.
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"Harper Lee was ahead of her time, and her masterpiece To 'Kill A Mockingbird' prodded America to catch up with her," former President George W. Bush, whose wife Laura Bush is a librarian, said in a statement.
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" Before Thursday, Harris had refused to abandon his narrow victory, but newly released text messages and damning testimony from his son prodded the pastor to admit that some of his past recollections and previous assertions were "incorrect.
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Announcing the move so publicly, and unexpectedly, will have shown to North Korea that China is ready to take the initiative instead of waiting to be prodded by America, as it usually does when North Korea offends.
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In February, Trump prodded Attorney General Jeff Sessions to investigate the Obama administration over the Russia affair, and in an April interview with Fox & Friends, Trump said he'll stay out of the Justice Department's way — for now.
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Analysts have been forecasting a surge in video consumption in India since Reliance Jio, the telecom unit of Reliance Industries Ltd, upended the industry last year with cheap data plans that have prodded rivals to lower prices.
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To find their footing, and any signs of life, they prodded the muddy water with tree branches and poles, as slippers, bags and other personal items swirled by in the small streams that ran through the rubble.
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He prodded the mayor to pare the municipal payroll, ratify contracts financed by productivity improvements, raise taxes and sacrifice sacred cows, including free tuition at the City University of New York and the 35-cent subway fare.
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It is clear that America's racial wounds and painful history are being prodded on a regular basis -- by our leaders, our entertainment icons, our public voices -- and in the process it seems we are all becoming desensitized.
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He never played in the field after May 23, and when, late in the season, Manager Joe Girardi prodded him to practice at first base after Mark Teixeira had sustained a season-ending injury, Rodriguez begged off.
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"I'd like hip kids to buy it because I think you can wear Felt as a badge of honor," he replies when prodded about who he envisions schlepping to record shops with their paper round pocket money.
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Yasuhisa Shiozaki, the health, labour and welfare minister, has been prodded into action partly by a startling fact: despite Japan's falling population, and the growing number of childless couples, the number of children in care is rising.
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"The high visual quality and the contemporary content of an artwork is always Gursky's focus," says the 2015 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf grad, noting that he prodded her to reflect on the politics and culture at the given moment.
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It involves lying on a recliner, wearing goggles that show you a small doll's limbs stretched in front of you in place instead of your own, and having your leg prodded or stroked simultaneously with the doll's.
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While judges have previously prodded the department not to dawdle with releases of Clinton's emails, the State Department has routinely complained that FOIA lawsuits have overwhelmed its resources and has quoted review times that can seem comical.
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Wielgus insists to this day that the Diamond M's patriarch, Len McIrvin, could have been prodded by the state to take steps — quickly moving the salt blocks, removing cattle from the den site — to avoid serious problems.
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In 2013 the Helicon Foundation prodded him to experiment with gut strings and a period bow, which led Mr. Gandelsman to the recording of Bach's complete sonatas and partitas for unaccompanied violin he released earlier this year.
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Indeed, one of the 38 people on a list the government was now prodded to investigate was a renowned space medicine doctor in Texas, Hubertus Strughold, accused of conducting human-guinea-pig experiments on prisoners at Dachau.
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These officials have been prodded awake in part by the federal Department of Homeland Security's cautionary designation this year of election systems as critical infrastructure, on par with the electrical grid and banking in needing special protection.
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My first responsibility was to myself, to survive, and the thought of being poked, prodded, swabbed, interviewed, interviewed again, forced to relive every minute detail of what I'd just gone through was more than I could bear.
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The Trump administration's concerns with Iran have come as the United Nations Security Council, prodded by the United States, has ratcheted up pressure on North Korea to stop its nuclear and missile testing and resume disarmament talks.
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In a pair of videos called "Getting Pretty Before" and "Getting Pretty After," members of the K-pop group SixBomb giddily went for manicures between appointments at a plastic surgeon, where their faces were prodded and poked.
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To photographer Melina Papageorgiou, the burkini is a swimsuit, and the Burkini series is an invitation for outside observers to look at the materiality of the thing without being poked or prodded towards political interpretation or harmful stereotyping.
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The handler, thrown to the ground and jumped on by a 660-pound brown bear, escaped the mauling without serious injury, but only after a colleague kicked the muzzled animal and prodded it with an electric stun gun.
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This has prodded experts to work toward shared norms for AI. Why it matters: The driver's seat of global AI policy is still empty, awaiting the country or organization that will set the rules for others to follow.
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President Donald Trump has prodded Japanese automakers to add more jobs in the United States as the White House has threatened to impose tariffs of up to 25 percent on imported vehicles, on the grounds of national security.
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White House officials prodded their Chinese counterparts to hold a joint news conference, a rarity in China since it could provide a journalist the opportunity to ask an embarrassing question of the country's leader or challenge his authority.
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The central banks of both countries in recent weeks removed long-held easing bias from their interest rate outlook, prodded in part by a U.S. Federal Reserve rate increase and the European Central Bank's hardening its dovish stance.
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The United States has long prodded its European partners to match its economic sanctions against high-ranking Russians, but it has encountered resistance because Russia's business ties to Europe are so much deeper than to the United States.
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But the Portland Police Bureau, prodded in part by the 22005 findings of a Justice Department investigation, has spent years putting in place an intensive training program and protocols for how officers deal with people with mental illness.
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Eventually, the big banks, prodded by the regulators and by Congress, reformed themselves to prevent a recurrence of what happened in 2008, notably by increasing the amount of capital they hold in reserve to deal with unexpected contingencies.
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And while alternative milk has been poked and prodded at as a metaphor of privilege and a stamp of gentrification, in Brooklyn, some coffee shops such as Brooklyn's Sey Coffee and Domicile don't charge for Oatly at all.
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Prodded by his daughter, who joined the business in 1986, Mr. Bass consented to a major renovation and expansion of the store in 2005, adding an elevator and air-conditioning and streamlining the floors to make browsing easier.
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Ms. Pelosi even successfully prodded Mr. Trump to tweet out assurances to participants in the program that they would not be deported during the six-month period Mr. Trump set for Congress to work out a legislative solution.
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In the currency markets, the differing messages of the world's major central banks on inflation and monetary policy prodded the dollar higher against the yen ahead of a series of appearances by U.S. Federal Reserve officials this week.
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Over all, it appears that the state, which is reportedly also contemplating a bigger tie-up between ChemChina and rival Sinochem, has prodded three of its wards into supporting a fourth to nail down a strategically important deal.
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Mark John, European Economics Editor LONDON (Reuters) - Prodded by worries about the worst global economic outlook in a decade and electorates still smarting from years of austerity, euro zone governments are starting to loosen their budgetary purse strings.
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Traders said expectations of a dovish statement from the U.S. Federal Reserve after UK markets close was also calming the market, and slightly better than expected wage and employment data prodded sterling to a day's high of $1.4196.
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In a report in The New York Times in April, women said that they had been prodded to get the vaginal mesh implants removed and that a cash advance firm had provided them with financing to do so.
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Beltran also prodded the players' union and Major League Baseball to have interpreters in every clubhouse so that Spanish-speaking players could more fully communicate with the news media, a step that has been in place since 2016.
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But with the proliferation of more natural-looking fillers and more transparency on social media (with a few taps, you can watch endless Hyperlapses of lips being prodded with a needle and slowly expanded), I started to consider them.
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Cowsert changed her name on social media after a reporter prodded her for an interview some years ago, and she isn't connected with her family online, so she felt safe making some pro-Abrams pronouncements on Facebook in July.
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Many of the film's most visually scarring scenes—the brain being poked and prodded with a pencil, the protagonist drilling a hole through his head—last as afterimages, burned in the back of your eyes for days to come.
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U.S. President Donald Trump has prodded Japanese automakers to boost more jobs in the United States as the White House has threatened to impose tariffs of up to 25 percent on imported vehicles, on the grounds of national security.
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Waters, who is quickly becoming President Trump's harshest congressional critic, prodded Mnuchin during a House Financial Services Committee hearing over why she hadn't received a response to a May letter she sent him about Trump's financial connections to Russia.
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He said that for a manslaughter conviction one would need to prove the defendant directly caused the death and there could be an argument that even though she prodded him, it was ultimately the victim who made the decision.
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He also said the numbers show the need for Congress to provide enough resources to keep up with a surge in migrants arriving at the Southwest border, and prodded lawmakers to increase the number of beds needed for detention.
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Peter Navarro, Mr. Trump's hard-line trade adviser, had long prodded the president to formally withdraw from the old Nafta deal, and Mr. Trump has frequently threatened to do so during meetings with his staff members and foreign leaders.
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The 1991 hearings were a surreal spectacle, as senators prodded an obviously uncomfortable Ms. Hill through awkward testimony about penis size, pubic hair and a pornographic film star known as Long Dong Silver — shocking public discourse at the time.
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As journalists from Mexico prodded and probed him, trying to get a read on how much deference the coach's game plan would show the defending champions, he insisted quietly, but firmly, that the team would not compromise its identity.
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A year ago, prodded by a reader who wrote eloquently about how women were underrepresented on the letters page of The Times, we started the Women's Project, aiming to correct that imbalance and better reflect the diversity in society.
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The two countries have seen a surge in bad debt and non-performing loans, but those assets are still for the most part with banks, which may be prodded to clean their balance sheets and create buying opportunities for Oaktree.
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After breaking his silence about the romance by, well, refusing to speak about his girlfriend in a new interview with British Vogue for its October issue, the Favourite actor is continuing to demur when prodded to speak about their undercover courtship.
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Similarly, spending $90 on a ticket and dragging yourself out to some haunted mansion to be blindfolded and prodded by a stranger is its own kind of stress, one that might outweigh whatever relaxation you could possibly get from it.
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Obama has also forced Abe to publicly declare his support for the 1993 Kono Statement acknowledging state responsibility for coercive recruitment of comfort women, and prodded Seoul and Tokyo to overcome the comfort women issue at the end of 2015.
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Bono, who is a supporter of the Clinton Foundation, prodded a recording of Trump about his plans to build a wall along the Mexican border during an interlude in U2's "Bullet the Blue Sky," reported the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Viewers are intended to view Lorelai's humble life as a small-town innkeeper and her close, borderline obsessive relationship with her daughter as aspirational, and are never really prodded to ask how much she has given up to get there.
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It has prodded them to seek serious conversation about humans' profound disagreements over morality and the nature of truth — questions that campus liberals, despite their professed concern for dialogue and critical thinking, often avoid in the name of tolerance and inclusion.
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And I feel like you did that a lot for me, where I would get like, tweaky or in my own head, you just kind of prodded me along and just said, don't worry about it just do it, it's fine.
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Having been poked and prodded for weeks now, I wasn't phased by the needle, and the next morning, I did notice more of a glow in my face, thanks to the nutrients in the IV. Maybe it was placebo effect?
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Prodded by Bernie Sanders and his supporters, Clinton has also called for feminist economic policies that include paid family leave, a major boost in the minimum wage (women are nearly two-thirds of minimum wage earners), and significantly expanded child care.
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In a stinging report issued Tuesday morning, the EPA's Office of Inspector General (OIG) said the agency didn't even have a legal justification to provide a security force for Pruitt until auditors prodded agency attorneys for more than a year.
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That was offset by a dip in comparable sales in Europe and Japan, which prodded overall same-store sales numbers one percent lower and kept the company's shares broadly flat on Wednesday after a 21 percent gain so far this year.
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U.S Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer's comments overnight that the issues between United States and China are "too serious" to be resolved, prodded investors into scaling back risk as hopes of a swift resolution to the bruising U.S.-China trade dispute waned.
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When Swisher prodded him on controversial posts from InfoWars' claiming that the Holocaust was fake or the Sandy Hook shooting didn't happen, Zuckerberg agreed they were false posts, but they should be moved down a user's feed rather than removed entirely.
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"If prodded by the United States, Brazil could take a stronger public stance against the Maduro regime, using the influx of refugees as its excuse to act," said Jana Nelson, a former State Department official who worked on Brazil policy.
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Due to the pluripotent nature of the stem cells—meaning they have the potential to become any number of different cells—these cells could be prodded into developing a 3D structure reminiscent of a developing human brain, although much smaller.
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Finally, in recent years, Hollywood and television, prodded by a group of extraordinary aging actresses (Helen Mirren, Meryl Streep and Diane Keaton among them) are just beginning to move away from stereotypes and to explore the truths that Shakespeare articulated.
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Experts have said that the prep schools have been prodded to be more transparent and to settle after watching what happened at Penn State, which agreed in 2013 to pay $59.7 million to 26 sexual abuse victims of Mr. Sandusky.
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Prodded by J Street, Friedman will be challenged about his past support for Jews in the community of Beit El. The world may villainize the families as settlers, but they have every right to live in the land of Israel.
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While populists have rarely won the White House, they prodded those who did, like Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt, who enacted progressive policies expanding government power over the "malefactors of great wealth," as the first Roosevelt put it.
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However, Trump feels "prodded by the Chinese, humiliated," Cramer said on "Squawk on the Street," pointing to what he calls the latest "provocation" — China's Communist Party reportedly ordering all state offices to remove foreign hardware and software within three years.
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He argued for a single-payer European-style health care system — almost certainly an unattainable goal — and thereby prodded Clinton to the point that she has now said she would like to give people the option to buy into Medicare.
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Although the federal health care law that was passed under President Obama, which prodded both insurers and health systems to deliver less-expensive medical care, encouraged some of the merger activity, many of these entities were likely to combine anyway.
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President Donald Trump prodded Republican senators on Twitter over the weekend to use the "nuclear option," a last-ditch way for the majority party in the Senate to overcome obstruction by the minority party by forcing a simple majority vote.
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As her reincarnation loop continues — in episode two, that loop is so speedy that it's played for farce — Nadia is prodded out of her perpetual sense of pointlessness; her apprehension of death is no longer making her human needs seem futile.
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Although you may still be left with bumps just waiting to be prodded, we remind you yet again to be wary of popping blemishes in the first place, since you're creating an open wound and increasing the possibility of scarring and infection.
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"In the past if I have ever done a photoshoot with so much as a t-shirt on, I have starved myself for weeks in advance and then picked and prodded at every picture and then normally taken the picture down," he wrote.
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All the criticism reminds me of something both John and Logan said during our conversations—John when I asked about how contrived some of his posts were, and Logan when I prodded him on the logic behind those sexy dog costume shots.
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The Hyderabadi got a taste of what her life will be from now on when she was pulled and prodded as she made her way through a throng of reporters desperate to hang on to every word coming out of her mouth.
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Get-out-the-vote exists to tell people that their vote is especially important; it also ensures that even people who aren't inflamed with the desire to vote are prodded to the polls (while their peers in safe states might not be).
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The Trump administration, largely through chief of staff John Kelly when he was serving as DHS secretary, has prodded Congress to come up with a permanent solution for the program, which would answer the complaints of it being done through presidential authority.
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In a dusty pen on the side of the road, he prodded a white ram costing 1 million CFA francs ($1,715) - a Rolls-Royce among sheep made expensive in part because it had been raised with good quality food and vaccinations, he said.
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The Trump administration, largely through chief of staff John Kelly when he was serving as homeland security secretary, has prodded Congress to come up with a permanent solution for the program, which would answer the complaints of it being done through presidential authority.
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Back in Israel, Raz worked as a drummer in a disco and as a creative director at an ad agency; prodded by a girlfriend to pursue his artistic ambitions, he started taking acting lessons and getting roles in various theatre and TV productions.
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Two activist investors who have prodded the Williams Companies for nearly three years to improve shareholder returns sent letters to the pipeline company's board on Friday explaining why they had quit the board and vowing to continue their dissident battle from the outside.
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The king, meanwhile, is being prodded to act by Robert Cecil (Mark Gatiss), a humpbacked enforcer who is determined to eradicate Catholicism by any means necessary, which includes subjecting practitioners to hideous deaths and creative means of interrogation every time he apprehends one.
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The Indian government has prodded the country's largest bank, state-run lender State Bank of India, to step into the breach and lead the planned rescue of Yes Bank, a measure some said might not be enough to stem sector-wide panic.
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At WGST, he alternated condemnation of the White House-bound Bill Clinton, an early Hannity bête noire, with lighter fare, like a one-off April Fools' Day segment in which he prodded young callers to vow not to engage in premarital sex.
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Though law enforcement officials would not discuss specifics or allow photographs of evidence, each jumble would be tested and prodded, with technicians hoping to unlock insight into Mr. Conditt and the small but active group of people like him: America's domestic bombers.
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But what definitely won't suffice is a climate strategy built out of wishful thinking: the proposition that countries can be cajoled and prodded into increasing their ambition to cut emissions further, and that laggards can be named and shamed into falling into line.
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For more than a year the White House, spurred on by Mr. Trump and officials in the White House Office of Legislative Affairs, has prodded Mr. McConnell to invoke what has been referred to on Capitol Hill as a "mini" nuclear option.
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She prodded him into saying that he had not examined any of the underlying evidence before deciding not to charge the president with obstruction of justice — a moment that drew praise from the national affairs editor of the left-leaning magazine Mother Jones.
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In addition to Jerusalem, Mr. Abrams checked off the administration's decision to provide lethal weapons to Ukraine, its imposition of harsh sanctions on North Korea and Mr. Trump's criticism of NATO, which he said had prodded members to spend more on their militaries.
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Mr. Trump, who tweeted his support only on the morning of the primary, was cajoled into the endorsement by his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., who prodded him a few times on it, according to two Republican officials familiar with the conversations.
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The DEA had to be prodded into making its decision by the courts: In June, the Arizona-based Scottsdale Research Institute asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to demand the DEA go through the growing pile of applications.
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In an effort to winnow the field, Flip the 49th invited all five candidates to a forum on Friday night, where they'll be asked to speak directly to their paths to victory -- and if none exists, they'll be prodded to drop out.
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Why didn't A.G. Sessions replace Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, a Comey friend who was in charge of Clinton investigation but got.... Trump publicly prodded Sessions to investigate Democrats and probe his conspiracy theories about abuses by the FBI and Obama administration.
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But there came a time, early in the fourth quarter, when Hamblin jostled inside, pushed and prodded backup Connecticut center Natalie Butler, and finally, with seconds left on the shot clock, got her shot away, into the rim, circling almost endlessly before dropping.
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"It's the old PRI and they have a mindset, where they expect even the incredible to be taken at face value by society at large, especially when prodded by the elites," said Federico Estévez, political science professor at the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico.
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Prodded by a mutual friend, nine years ago, Mr. McKenzie, a lifelong bachelor living in San Antonio, decided to pursue an opportunity to meet Ms. Adams, a mother of four who was going through a divorce, and living 1,800 miles away in Woodside, Calif.
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Mr Mattis is a figure of rare credibility within the Trump administration, revered by his peers as a "warrior-monk"—a ferocious battlefield commander who carried works of Roman philosophy into combat, and prodded his officers to think hard about the ethics of killing.
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"In the past if I have ever done a photoshoot with so much as a t-shirt on, I have starved myself for weeks in advance and then picked and prodded at every picture and then normally taken the picture down," Smith wrote on Instagram.
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In recent years, Republicans have aligned themselves with the views of Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, in suggesting that Israel should not be prodded to engage in talks, because the Palestinian side has shown no sincerity or seriousness as a potential partner for peace.
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"I am filing this lawsuit for every woman who's been pinched, prodded, cornered, felt-up, pushed against a wall, grabbed, groped, assaulted, and has spoken up only to be shamed, demeaned, disgraced, passed over for promotion, fired, and forgotten," Carroll, 75, said in a statement.
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Sen. Rand PaulRandal (Rand) Howard PaulGraham promises ObamaCare repeal if Trump, Republicans win in 2020 Conservatives buck Trump over worries of 'socialist' drug pricing Rand Paul to 'limit' August activities due to health MORE (R-Ky.) on Wednesday prodded at the controversy over Sen.
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Big picture: The U.S. "has long prodded its European partners to match its economic sanctions against high-ranking Russians, but it has encountered resistance because Russia's business ties to Europe are so much deeper than to the United States," the NYT's Ellen Barry writes.
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In addition to his aid efforts, he has prodded Major League Baseball into requiring that all teams have Spanish-language interpreters available to help Latinos speak with the news media and has chided baseball for not contributing more to the sport's infrastructure in Puerto Rico.
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But Mr. Carson, who has privately fumed about what he regards as the unfairness of being singled out for criticism, resisted doing so until Thursday's hearing, when one of the panel's Republicans, Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, gently prodded him to be more contrite.
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Today was the 211th morning I've packed lunches for my three children, prodded them to put on their shoes and hunted for library books under the couch since learning that my home state of New York had been hit by a dangerous respiratory virus.
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Quarantined alone in an institutional chamber that suggests a waiting room in hell, with its fishless aquarium and pathetic plastic plant, the inhabitants of "Arlington" are coaxed, prodded and — if the word fits, and it does — tortured into what amounts to singing for their supper.
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Thompson prodded McCaul to hold hearings to see what their panel could do to address the issue, pointing to the overwhelming conclusion held by the intelligence community that Russia attempted to sway the 22019 election and may try to interfere in U.S. affairs again.
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To ensure a steady supply of flavorful, fatty pork, he prodded his friend Anders Tveite, a chef turned farmer, to start raising Mangalitsa pigs, whose woolly coats allow them to live outside all year, even in these rough mountains, still snowcapped in early July.
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He sought a meeting with the president, and Mr. Krogh made it happen, standing witness as Presley hugged Nixon, talked about playing Las Vegas, prodded the president to produce some gifts for his bodyguards and, famously, asked for and received an honorary drug agent badge.
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"Good news for George Herbert Walker Bush: As of today, he is no longer the biggest wimp ever to serve as President of the United States," Ann Coulter, the conservative commentator who prodded Mr. Trump to take a firmer stand in December, wrote on Twitter.
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So, which is the really creative party in this process: the algorithm that needs to be prodded and cajoled for months to turn out something half-interesting, or the people searching for an aesthetic result and making all of the decisions to get there?
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He allegedly asked the woman if "it would have happened for us" if they met in a bar, and prodded her about whether she was flirting with him, outside of other comments he had made about the appearances of female colleagues, the woman alleged.
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But Shionogi, Japan's most profitable drugmaker by operating margin, has become open to more risk - prodded into seizing more sales for itself by a looming patent cliff that will see a key HIV drug and three combination medicines exposed to generic competition in nine years time.
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In early March he prodded state legislators who were grappling for consensus on school safety measures by urging them to enhance school security, improve mental health resources for at-risk youth and pass legislation to keep guns away from those who pose a risk to society.
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The owner of the property, Jason Badger, on Friday prodded through a left-behind satchel of ammunition — fit for rifle, shotgun and handgun — and discarded garbage bags holding crumpled grade-school textbooks and journals lined with notes in neat cursive and the primitive doodles of children.
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The sources said Halper reached out to other Trump campaign aides in the summer and fall of 6900, including Carter Page (who became the subject of the FISA warrant) and senior adviser Sam Clovis, though it is not clear if the FBI prodded him to do so.
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House Democrats, prodded on by rank-and-file lawmakers from conservative districts who are eager to promote their own border security ideas, are poised as early as Friday to outline more than $5 billion in measures they support, a far larger sum than they initially entertained.
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Whether it's an obese person being called a "massive fatty" and presented with a death certificate on "Fat Families," or an 8-year-old girl's "biggest embarrassment" being poked and prodded on "Embarrassing Bodies," for two decades we have been invited to laugh at others' expense.
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This is both dumb and richly paradoxical when one considers that Mr. Trump has continued to attack Hillary Clinton's use of a private email account and server as secretary of state, and has prodded his Justice Department to restart an inquiry that cleared her of criminal wrongdoing.
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I was 11 in October 1991, when Professor Hill sat before an all-male panel of Senate Judiciary Committee members and was prodded to tell, in excruciating detail, her account of being sexually harassed years earlier by Judge Clarence Thomas, who would soon after become Justice Thomas.
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At a news conference after the official memorial ceremony, a forum normally dominated by reflections on the past and appeals for a peaceful future, a reporter prodded Mr. Abe about the alarmingly here-and-now problem of the nuclear ambitions of the North's leader, Kim Jong-un.
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As Mr. Goldberg told it, he had prodded Chuck Barris, then ABC's director of West Coast daytime programming, to create "The Dating Game," in which a bachelor or bachelorette would choose a date from among three unseen members of the opposite sex after asking them questions.
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In recent days, Mr. Trump's aides have gently prodded him to drop the attacks on the intelligence community and mollify nervous Republicans by showing that he was moving ahead with forward-looking reforms of the sprawling intelligence-gathering bureaucracy, according to two people close to the discussions.
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President Donald Trump has prodded his attorneys in recent days to arrange for him to be interviewed by special counsel Robert Mueller's team, despite their warnings that doing so could increase his legal exposure, The New York Times reported, citing three people briefed on the matter.
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The final agreement to buy the F-35 was approved by the Obama administration with strong backing from Congress—the same Congress which recently prodded the government to increase planned military aid for Israel to $38 billion over the next ten years, the largest such assistance package in history.
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A prosperity preacher, Paula White, spoke at Mr Trump's inauguration, despite grumbles about her hard-sell techniques, with worshippers prodded to make such "demon-slaying, abundance-bringing" donations as $229, chosen to honour I Chronicles 22:9, with its talk of Solomon earning respite from "enemies on every side".
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In an emotional speech in which he thanked his family and declared his time as president the honor of his life, Obama gently prodded the public to embrace his vision of progress while repudiating some of the policies that Trump promoted during his campaign for the White House.
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And he has prodded Mr. Trump, too, to shift direction at key moments: Mr. Christie was among the senior Republicans who privately urged Mr. Trump to dismiss his campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, who was widely distrusted by national party leaders and other members of the Trump inner circle.
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"When I just look like s— and want to go outside and eat a churro and not have anyone up my a–," Kardashian West replied when Statter, co-founder and co-CEO of Blended Strategy Group, prodded her to name her "least favorite thing" about being a celeb.
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Four minutes later Ronaldo, who put Real on the way to a 2-0 win in the first leg of the last-16 tie with a stunning strike, released Rodriguez with a delicate pass and the Colombia forward prodded the ball between the legs of keeper Wojciech Szczesny.
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This piece prodded my relationship with femininity in an unexpected way: I can't help but associate long, leopard print coats with a kind of demure and delicate femininity that feels unattainable to me as a queer woman who falls somewhere in the middle of the gender presentation spectrum.
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Intelligence and military officials in Europe as well as in the United States said that over the past year, most aggressive moves have originated not in Tehran, but in Washington — where John R. Bolton, the national security adviser, has prodded President Trump into backing Iran into a corner.
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That column about child marriage, along with other publicity and heroic efforts of many activists, prodded legislators to re-examine the issue, but the strongest opposition to a change has come from conservatives who argue that a pregnant girl should be able to marry the unborn child's father.
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"You have a mixed story here — you won't be able to put them together," Mr. Blum said, even while acknowledging that, yes, it was young, bold love that prodded him to stand up to a Nazi guard and save his sweetheart from being sent to the Treblinka death camp.
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In the case of the housing search, Senator Tom Udall of New Mexico, the top Democrat on the subcommittee, prodded Mr. Pruitt to acknowledge that one of his aides, Millan Hupp, had worked without pay to find a place for her boss to live when he came to Washington.
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Norbert Zelenka, the soothsayer of Frost's title, could be a character out of one of those old Ealing Studios comedies in which Alec Guinness played all of the parts: a milquetoast who transforms himself into a player, prodded by a band of dotty but well-meaning elderly ladies.
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In a recent episode of "Dialogue", a talk show on CGTN, the host prodded his guests into talking about an online essay written by a disgruntled Beijinger lamenting the "emptiness" of life in the city—even though the once-viral piece had been scrubbed from the internet in China by censors.
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Since the late 1960s, when museums were first prodded to reflect social diversity, it has come to be viewed as part of a collection of African American art and the work of an artist who chose to live in France, rather than face race-based persecution in the United States.
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The nomination (one of seven for the film overall) also has the feel of a preemptive strike, after host network ABC prodded the Academy to contemplate changes that included a "popular film" category, frustrated over a parade of nominees that relatively few members of the potential viewing audience had seen.
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If all this seems lacking in the gravitas implied by the heritage of its author, who was born in Israel to a family of Yemeni descent and served in the Israeli Army, just try picking up this book without having your preconceived notions prodded into a mess of noisy contradictions.
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Applied to VR, the effect is naturally more immersive; using Handpose with an Oculus Rift headset, I could see my hands as I prodded and poked a bunny that moulded to the touch like Blu-Tack and interacted with a series of virtual controllers that mimicked analogue dials, buttons, and sliders.
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At the same time that he was meeting with Egypt's president, a senior administration official said, Mr. Trump and his son-in-law and adviser, Jared Kushner, were being prodded by leaders in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates who also revile the Muslim Brotherhood as a political opponent.
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Prodded by the stories of Coogan, Baby Marie Osborne and other children whose Hollywood fortunes were squandered by parents or guardians, California in 1939 passed the Coogan Act, a law to safeguard part of a child actor's earnings in trust, and provided for time off, schooling and limits on working hours.
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They point to gains in the Middle East, where Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is transforming Saudi Arabia; in Asia, where China is doing more to pressure a nuclear-armed North Korea; and even in Europe, where Mr. Trump's criticism has prodded NATO members to ante up more for their defense.
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Officials with the Department of Housing and Urban Development, prodded by hard-liners like Stephen Miller, President Trump's top immigration adviser, say the proposal, which would prohibit households with at least one unauthorized immigrant from living in federally subsidized housing, is needed to ensure that only verified citizens receive the benefits.
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But if there's anything I've learned in my efforts to pull the iPhone apart, literally and figuratively, it's that there are rarely concrete beginnings to any particular products or technologies — they evolve from varying previous ideas and concepts and inventions and are prodded and iterated into newness by restless minds and profit motives.
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And that's how I found myself a few weeks later at Bicycle Habitat, a high-end shop in Manhattan, getting my sad sack of bones poked and prodded and measured so I could be custom fitted to an S-Works Tarmac, Specialized's top-flight race bike, which costs a mere $9500 or so.
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An apparently typical digression about fraud and the popular vote during a meeting with congressional leaders this week "was greeted with silence, and Mr. Trump was prodded to change the subject by Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff, and Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas," according to The New York Times.
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Year on year, whether I was in the car on the way to see the lights of some distant market town or crushing cheese and onion crisps into flat Coca Cola at a community centre party, "Last Christmas" always prodded me with a shiver of something that felt almost elemental, almost inherent.
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Driven by polls showing that voters in both parties — particularly younger Americans — are increasingly concerned about a warming planet, and prodded by the new Democratic majority in the House shining a spotlight on the issue, a growing number of Republicans are now openly discussing climate change and proposing what they call conservative solutions.
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In a wide-ranging monologue, the "Daily Show" correspondent poked and prodded President TrumpDonald John TrumpO'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms Objections to Trump's new immigration rule wildly exaggerated MORE and his top aides, despite their notable absence from the star-studded event.
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Victims' relatives and friends hovered as a huge rescue operation, including hundreds of workers and neighbors, helped by a crane, a fire engine and dogs, prodded and pushed giant mounds of concrete and other rubble from the flattened building to reveal saris, steel pots and remnants of daily life crushed in seconds.
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The IDP was prodded, successfully, to release three sets of numbers this year: The preferences of voters as they first caucus, the preferences after they had realigned (with supporters of candidates with less than 15 percent support moving over to the caucus corners of candidates with more than 15 percent), and the aforementioned SDEs.
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But, prodded in part by China's development of Gwadar port, which lies barely 100 km (60 miles) from Chabahar on the Pakistani coast, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government has unveiled massive investment plans centered around the Iranian port, offering to help build railways, roads and fertilizer plants that could eventually amount to $15 billion.
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They serve notice that superhero/fantasy movies -- Hollywood's most profitable genre -- can no longer be sneered at or dismissed, and that Netflix and other alternative delivery systems now have a significant seat at the table, in the same way the service pushed, prodded and bought its way to the top of the Emmy heap.
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Four in 10 Americans said they approve of Trump overall, according to the poll, conducted before the release of a rough transcript of a phone call showing Trump prodded the president of Ukraine to investigate Democratic political rival Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's announcement that she would launch a formal impeachment inquiry.
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It seemed strange that he just wanted to eat pancakes with me at my house, so after we'd shared a post-breakfast blunt, I prodded him until he finally shared the bad news: After finding a great new apartment, Gregory had rented a U-Haul and packed it with every single thing he owned.
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Prodded by the Trump administration's plans, Mr. Maas has already declared that Germany will urge NATO to force Russian compliance with the I.N.F. At the same time, the United States should release as much evidence as it can of Russian deployments and meet the Russian challenge by redeploying treaty-compliant land, sea and air arsenals.
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It does cite the fact that Hurricane Sandy in 2012, which resulted in gasoline lines stretching for miles, inoperable refineries and electricity outages affecting 8.7 million people, prodded utility companies in New York and New Jersey to invest billions of dollars in upgrades like elevating equipment and redesigning electrical networks to withstand extreme weather.
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Aided and abetted, maybe even prodded by the leader of the free world, white nationalists, white supremacists and racists of all kinds are emboldened in a way that I have not seen since former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke was running for office in Louisiana in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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Mr. Biden's campaign has said he scored his best week of fund-raising since the second week of the campaign as Democrats initiated an impeachment inquiry of Mr. Trump over a whistle-blower complaint claiming that Mr. Trump prodded the president of Ukraine to investigate the business dealings there of Mr. Biden's son Hunter Biden.
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His latest version of the clock has thousands of supercooled strontium atoms arranged in a three dimensional lattice (imagine M&M's sitting on the peaks and troughs of an egg carton.) The atoms are prodded to start vibrating using a red laser tuned to strontium's frequency and then an optical frequency comb reads out that vibration.
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Other fund managers and economists argue that devaluation would do little to promote sales of Chinese exports that are already competitive, especially in the U.S., and that a sharp devaluation would backfire if countries like Australia, Malaysia and Indonesia were prodded to devalue their currencies in a bid to make sure they remain competitive with China.
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Even if you assume Samsung has made some progress on its bendable prototypes, having worked on the concept for more than five years at this point, there's no doubt that creating a screen robust enough to be opened and closed (and prodded) as much as 150 times+ a day by touchscreen-addicted humans is a huge challenge.
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At the height of the crisis, prodded by incessant pleas for help from Egypt's president, Anwar el-Sadat (calls came in the middle of the night), the irate Soviet leader asked the Politburo to consider additional measures, like parking a Soviet naval force off Tel Aviv, or allowing Egypt to strike deep inside Israel with Soviet-supplied rockets.
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Through Mr. Obama, I have been hipped to the Congolese singer Jupiter Bokondji, prodded to give a closer listen to the hirsute country star Chris Stapleton and reminded of the unadulterated joy of Cardi B, J Balvin and Bad Bunny's "I Like It." His prose, always electric, assumes an extra whiff of fire when applied to music.
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But in the midterms that followed, Pelosi lost 63 of her foot soldiers and her gavel; some in the party felt that President Obama had failed to supply enough air cover for the members who had gone out on a limb for him after Pelosi cajoled and prodded in a manner that L.B.J. would have admired.
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But in the midterms that followed, Pelosi lost 63 of her foot soldiers and her gavel; some in the party felt that President Obama had failed to supply enough air cover for the members who had gone out on a limb for him after Pelosi cajoled and prodded in a manner that L.B.J. would have admired.
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It settled on the ground, where it contaminates the dirt and soil of every place that had a lot of automobile traffic during the generation following World War II. The federal government has poked and prodded at the problem of lead for decades, and the acute water crisis that struck Flint, Michigan, gave it national attention.
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Stop assuming that you know what's best for people, he admonished his listeners, and instead dive into the already-raging public debate of what happens next with AI. What's happening: As scientists in major fields have done for decades, AI experts are being prodded to step out of the lab, get political and help formulate how society confronts what they are creating.
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As part of Lucasfilm's strategy to strain the fragile human hearts preparing for the end of Star Wars (until a new movie in the series comes in 2022), the studio has found yet another weak spot it hadn't already prodded: the possible death of C-22PO, the lanky, lovable gold-plated droid who's been with the franchise since A New Hope.
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I mean, whether you prefer the straight-talking vibe of "YOU ARE BABE" or the inscrutable mystique of "LICK," you have to admit this is one sweet talkin' AI. All of these phrases are the creation of a neural network prodded into life by Janelle Shane, a master of AI nonsense who's previously worked her magic on Wikipedia titles, paint colors, and birds.
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Ivanka TrumpIvana (Ivanka) Marie TrumpDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Trump Jr. dismisses conflicts of interest, touts projects in Indonesia Ivanka Trump talking to lawmakers about gun reform legislation: report MORE prodded at the media, Democrats and herself during an appearance late Saturday at the Gridiron Club dinner, an annual high-end gathering of government officials and elite media types.
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In this case, Mr. Trump has told people around him that he thinks Kim Jong-un, the unpredictable North Korean leader, will ultimately be prodded to cut a deal, and that the bluntness of his language is intended to create a crisis that drives him to negotiate before North Korea perfects a nuclear-tipped missile capable of striking the American mainland.
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"You're going back to over a year ago in what he said about the (Muslim) ban versus what he said later about it, when he made it much more specific and talked about countries where we know that they've got a higher propensity of training and exporting terrorists," she told CNN's Chris Cuomo after he prodded her to share more details of Trump's plan.
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"You're going back to over a year ago in what he said about the (Muslim) ban versus what he said later about it, when he made it much more specific and talked about countries where we know that they've got a higher propensity of training and exporting terrorists," she told CNN's Chris Cuomo during an interview on "New Day," after he prodded her to share more details.
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The town hall is an "opportunity to discuss policies to create a pro-business climate with top Partnership CEOs from all industries," White House spokeswoman Lindsay Walters said Trump has held a series of meetings with chief executives and other business leaders since taking office in January as he has prodded companies to add U.S. jobs and asked how government could reduce regulations to boost economic growth.
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President Donald Trump's attacks on prominent African Americans just before the Thanksgiving break—in which he dubbed LaVar Ball, father of one of the three UCLA basketball players who had been released from custody in China, an "ungrateful fool"—prodded the mainstream news media to once again consider a long-percolating question: Why is he so obsessed with using famous African Americans as political foils?
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Although portions of the show are a bit outdated and cringeworthy—like when Carrie dated a bisexual guy and prodded him with questions as if he was an alien, or when Samantha dated a black guy and suddenly started to incorporate new slang into her everyday lingo—I look forward to sharing this show with my future daughter on a random summer afternoon some day.
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And by transposing some of the grit and silly shibboleths of contemporary city life onto that alternate landscape, the map (and the little blog posts he wrote to accompany it) prodded you to entertain the possibility that this ruined future might not feel like an emergency to those living it, that life in that archipelago might have all the richness, realness and inanity of ours.
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His fascination with the elusive transactions made between life and art, his obsession with memory and the practice of nostalgia, his own experience of expatriation, and his love of games and puzzles and coincidence — all can be found in these pages, pushed, prodded and honed into a variety of shapes, into whimsical fables, old-fashioned character sketches, Poe-like exercises in the macabre, and clever, Postmodernist confections.
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But the clamor inside her caucus grew too loud to resist in the wake of news reports that the president repeatedly prodded the president of Ukraine to investigate 220006 Democratic front-runner Joe BidenJoe BidenWhistleblower complaint declassified on eve of high-stakes testimony Ocasio-Cortez on impeachment: 'I think the ground has shifted' Democrats ask Pentagon to probe delayed Ukraine aid MORE and his family.
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In one, the country's biggest companies are growing a conscience, prodded along by shifts in public opinion and Donald Trump's depredations and their own idealistic young employees, and becoming a vanguard force for social change — with the recent disassociations from the N.R.A. by major airlines and rental car companies just the latest example in a trend that also includes recent high-profile corporate interventions on immigration and gay and transgender rights.
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For its opponents, the same-sex marriage ruling was less frightening for what it did than for what they feared might follow: not just legal same-sex nuptials, but a sweeping legal campaign against the sexual revolution's dissidents, in which conservative believers would be prodded out of various occupations, while their schools and hospitals and charities would be fined and taxed and regulated and de-accredited to death.
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Nor how the Zionism he described in Basel as a "moral, humanitarian movement" would be prodded over time toward messianic nationalism by the violent, still unresolved confrontation with the Arabs of Palestine; nor how the Jewish exercise of power, rather than Jewish subjection to its cruel whim, would test the very ethics that bound Jews to their formless, faceless God during the millenniums of tribulation in the diaspora.
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Sixty-five employees have been working on the project, along with a team of researchers at the shoe giant's Sport Research Lab, poked and prodded around 20 or so candidates to determine who was best suited to hit the goal, based on factors like running economy and VO2 Max, which measures oxygen intake during a workout – that thing that they're calculating when runners wear the mask with all the tubes on the treadmill.
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Prodded by Beijing, the Hong Kong government tried to pass legislation in 2003 that would modernize these laws, many of which date to before World War II. Activists like Margaret Ng, a longtime democracy advocate who represented the city's lawyers in Hong Kong's legislature at the time, opposed the legislation, arguing that it would be better to leave the existing colonial laws on the books, because they would be hard to enforce.
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That panel, along with similar sessions on issues like privacy, artificial intelligence and blockchain regulation, was held on the Las Vegas Convention Center's sleepier upper floors, away from the glitz and buzz of the multistory showroom halls where people poked, prodded or swooned over products like sweat-analyzing skin patches, a DNA-powered wrist strap that warns wearers about poor food choices and smartwatches for kids promising parents real-time location tracking.
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When prodded by Haddad and Martin about using his polling groundwork and other expertise as a means to defeat GOP front-runner Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE — of whom Murphy has been breathlessly critical — he said he would rather volunteer his time toward that end.
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