Let's hope this letter prods them to reflect and reconsider.
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It prods society to criticize itself and learn from mistakes.
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And it never really prods itself to go beyond that.
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There were jobs for the "Prods," as Protestants were known.
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She prods them further: how did it get to the internet?
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But there must be more, and Wes prods her for answers.
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"Lindsay Prods Banks: Aid Stores in Slums," its afternoon sibling chirped.
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And the pokes, pricks and prods toward health still seem infinite.
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Emma prods Adèle toward philosophy and the examination of her own desires.
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The same reason anyone's family prods them towards heterosexual life choices: procreation.
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In this scene the reporter prods her to "share something personal" about herself.
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Even so, Morris prods Bannon on the scrims he has erected for himself.
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The greatness of Ionesco is that he prods you: he tells you, Think.
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These people were beaten, suffocated, and had their nuts shocked with cattle prods.
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Clinton's careful collection of tweaks and prods is no match for the challenge.
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Choosing one, he prods a clearly suffering woman to share her harrowing story.
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In turn, he prods those teams for more information about their decision-making.
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Heitkamp told the Post that Trump often prods her about her party affiliation.
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They also poured water on him, and shocked him with wires and prods.
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Zurga prods his townspeople into urgent business: A new village headman must be chosen.
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Each note prods the other instruments to respond with splattering, skittish figures and bursts.
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" DeGeneres then prods her guests with, "Never have I ever been drunk before noon.
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To wit: Early curling irons looked like cattle prods — and were just as dangerous.
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Workers use electric prods to vibrate branches, causing olives to fall to the ground.
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It prods and pokes viewers with unsubtle emotional cues, like a reality TV show would.
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It has come to represent a crisis tipping point that prods a nation into action.
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Despite his attempts to filibuster the conversation, Kelly got in several prods about his position.
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"Now's the time!" he prods when Sam hems and haws about revealing Jon's true heritage.
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Bashir's paper prods at the Gilens data even more and finds a number of holes.
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Who's her Slurpee-sipping sidekick who remains impassive as she prods him with her stiletto?
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It costs extra work but prods a kind of conscientious thinking that may not otherwise occur.
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He took his time to strike me with sharp prods from the point of his sword.
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In extreme cases, trainers have been documented beating their horses into submission using whips and prods.
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It's another factor that prods states to simply serve fewer people and give them less help.
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Deng Yufeng wanted to create art that prods people to question their lack of data privacy.
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At best, third parties serve as prods to force the major parties to adjust their agenda.
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Guards beat him with metal bars, whipped him and shocked him with cattle prods, he said.
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" Innovations don't just proceed by science alone; as Foer continues, "the culture prods them into existence.
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More often than not, in Bennett's published interviews, the people she prods disagree with her views.
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In the interview, Massu said, of la gégène — torture with electric prods from a generator — 'Listen.
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Then she sees Hugh Grant in the crowd, and prods the journalist to ask the question again.
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A carbon tax is a concealed stick with which government prods us in the direction it prefers.
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Each president gets a two-page spread that often prods readers to picture themselves in his shoes.
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It prods them to practice simple gesture controls, issuing simple voice commands, and creating their own effects.
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During the daytime portion of the date, Peter prods 23-year-old Hannah Ann about her age.
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BEIJING — Deng Yufeng wanted to create art that prods people to question their lack of data privacy.
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A new volume of essays reflecting on Mr Piketty's book, published this month, prods economists to do better.
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Plus, if you conk out and start snoring (definitely unattractive), it gently prods you out of your stupor.
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It prods the fissures that appear when we hurt those we love reflexively and never atone for it.
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Claire ever-so-sensually prods Frank to perform oral sex on her on a table among the rubble.
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As Bat-Bruce moodily pushes and prods and Wonder-Diana smiles and smirks, the newbies jockey for position.
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Suddenly, over a dozen armed police officers bore down on her, and some beat her with electric prods.
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She also mentions that he's heading for "big changes" and prods him about a mysterious near-death experience.
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If you think addiction couldn't happen to your nearest and dearest, Robinson gently prods you to think again.
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Emma prods Adèle toward philosophy and the examination of her own desires, and soon, tensions erupt with force.
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During drinks, Robin's boss prods her about why her wedding was called off, which is already a tad uncomfortable.
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The crisis team pokes and prods at all parts of Facebook to see what might be vulnerable to manipulation.
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With a toothy grin, Zhang prods his screen, prompting the phone to play a mildly irritating trance-pop song.
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A Normal Lost Phone prods you into specific actions, and I think its ending is meant to feel hopeful.
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Julia Roberts and Steve Carrell are both taking in $600,000 per episode: Roberts for Homecoming from Universal Cable Prods.
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I'm sitting here working on the iPad Pro's chief competitor the Surface Pro 3 as Msft touts Apple prods.
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These backward leaps act like cattle prods, jarring us out of the somnolence that densely talkative films can induce.
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Studies show that push notifications -- those little pings and prods you get to check your apps -- are habit-forming.
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You were tortured with cattle prods, among others things—both alone but also in a sort of social way.
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But echoing your parents' claims that visible tattoos make you unhirable, Paredes prods clients to think about their lifestyle.
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Reisman prods Celeste and tries to get her to admit that she's being abused, while Celeste evades and deflects.
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Their fear of a backlash from Trump stalwarts, and of emboldening Democrats, prods them to hold out a little longer.
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After a couple of encouraging prods to the animal's butt, the tired moose moves forward and clamors back onto land.
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After several pestering prods from Stephen Colbert, Ina Garten has finally responded to his numerous requests to cook with her.
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Part of the reason is that the Federal Reserve has kept interest rates low, which prods consumers to spend more.
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Or would she receive a different, more direct form of physical punishment and be tortured with cattle prods and open flames?
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By lowering rates, the Fed could foster a labor market that draws in disadvantaged workers and prods companies to raise wages.
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By lowering rates, the Fed could foster a labor market that draws in disadvantaged workers and prods companies to raise wages.
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Stampede prods the viewer to consider how artists use animals to represent human traits and critique the world we humans live within.
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He prods with a jab which does nothing, then throws a telegraphed bomb of an overhand right and squares himself up completely.
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Sanders prods Israeli leaders in speech He called for the United States to work with both sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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FSOC has another important function — it makes sure other regulators do their job and, if they don't, prods them to do so.
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No excuse for a story's probes, prods, provocations unless they promise to produce, at a very minimum, the possibility of a cure.
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Sleek and minimal, it seems a perfectly normal pitcher from, say, Umbra or Ikea, but Mr. Smeets prods it like something rotten.
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It is a show that prods viewers to consider "the institutional and symbolic polarization that increasingly defines American society," Ms. Fraser said.
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As I dress, Ross wags his tail and prods me with his cold, wet nose, which never fails to make me smile.
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This posting prods buyers to anticipate that a shortage of face masks will only grow worse, so stock up on gloves now!
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The NBC News/SurveyMonkey online poll gives three options: Clinton, Trump, or "No Answer," which more firmly prods respondents to make a choice.
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It prods you to share your location when someone asks "Where are you?" or offers simple pre-written replies within conversations, and more.
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Well-designed insurance prods farmers to invest more in seed and fertiliser, because they are less worried about being wiped out by drought.
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As the robot prods a block, a cuff on its "wrist" detects the resistance so it can tell if it's free or stuck.
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Sure, it was just a few pokes and prods, but those hard-won cheekbones had me thinking about what else I could conquer.
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Jack doesn't say a proper goodbye; it's only when Kate prods him to go outside does he do so, and it's too late.
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If, as expected, Ms. Nixon prods the governor on those issues, watch for Mr. Cuomo's comments on such issues to be closely parsed.
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As the song starts playing, Dr. Davis-Boutte prods at the midsection of Ms. Rideau, who is lying facedown on the operating table.
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The group OUR Walmart, which prods the company to improve wages and benefits, alerted The New York Times to the changes in coverage.
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Consumers often complain to the commission about potential violations, and it prods companies into changing practices by threatening fines if the issues persist.
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That's a significant milestone, so the judge prods her to turn around and announce it to the courtroom audience, which explodes in applause.
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The exhibition Stampede prods the viewer to consider how artists use animals to represent human traits and critique the world we humans live within.
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Sure it's exciting when you first feel your baby's odd little pokes and prods, which can happen any time from 18 to 25 weeks.
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To me, supporting blacks in their continuing struggle honors those black children attacked with police dogs and cattle prods in Alabama 50 years ago.
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It starts as a series of random grasps — the big, red robot pokes and prods clumsily at objects on the table in front of it.
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" MR. NOVAK Despite all the artificial pushes and prods in production and market share, Mr. Novak routinely remarks that "fundamentally the market is balancing out.
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Farnsworth's overblown language — the references to invasion, the invocation of disease, the mood of threat — prods Americans toward identifying a problem and embracing a solution.
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Trump continues to apply public pressure to Republicans to "take control" of the investigations and prods them to bring the probes to a conclusion soon.
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In a whirlwind of White House leaks, prods and announcements leading up to Saturday's 100-day milestone, one unifying characteristic explains everything President Trump is doing.
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The goal, Tribby told me, was to make sex tech look less medical—no more rigid vagina prods in varying shades of beige—and more approachable.
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Aunt Lydia uses torture, such as shocking Handmaids with cattle prods, whipping them, and partially blinding one divergent Handmaid in an effort to gain complete obedience.
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The astronomer's discovery dissolves what we thought was the Omphalos — Earth — and prods us to search for a new point to center us and our lives.
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Where the Paris Agreement on greenhouse gases prods countries to promise to make changes, IMO 2000 is the rare global standard that everybody's supposed to follow.
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This is a four-stage process that compares suggested compensation amounts between genders, and theoretically prods the company to make adjustments if any statistical gap is observed.
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Yet, by sheathing her photographs in a little mystery, Silva also prods our curiosity: Good Boy 0372, beyond a striking photobook, is an unexpected entryway into education.
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Those citizens didn't have to know a thing about science; they only had to subject themselves to invasive questions and the pokes and prods of medical exams.
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In the boiler room at the end of the corridor, they hanged their fellow citizens by their wrists and shocked them, as they screamed, with cattle prods.
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In other words, you need to fall for Emily as much as Kumail does while she pokes and prods him, encouraging him to come out and play.
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The deposit rate is already minus 0.4 percent, in effect a penalty that prods banks to lend money rather than to hoard it at the central bank.
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In most mainstream cinema, the story tugs you along — or prods you into its mazelike corridors and toward dead ends — encouraging you to wonder what happens next.
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If we can't trust him to do it without occasional prods from reporters, then we should abandon the grand jury system in exchange for trial by media.
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Having to stick a probe under an arm, or under a tongue, is fine for adults who've learned to tolerate the pokes and prods of doctors and nurses.
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The one-year-old project prods local cops to publish data on their operations in a bid to increase transparency and build trust with the communities they police.
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Shortly after electrocuting Byron, the deputy jumped on her, dug his knee into her chest, and "forcefully" removed the taser prods from her body, according to court documents.
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However, for Jake Warden, a 15-year-old aspiring makeup artist, the back of his shiny iPhone is the perfect tool for squeezing and blending liquid makeup prods.
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It said it did not allow the use of prods in its operations, and would talk to its trucking company about the electric prod seen in the video.
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Strange bonds transpire: a head rests on someone's behind; a foot prods a butt; a penis pokes through two bodies; hair is intertwined with hair and other body parts.
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The government promises to buy itself more cars, and to lower interest rates on housing for public servants, but neglects stronger demand-side prods such as rural public works.
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Facebook has, at least recently, been offering an opt-in prompt that prods users with a big blue button to "continuously upload" contact data, including call and text history.
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" DJ Envy prods for further clarification on if it would be career-ending for Kanye, and J. Prince says coolly, "For sure, he would've been twisted with this one.
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Millions more struggle with out of pocket costs so high, even after paying their premiums, that prods them to forgo needed care, putting their health and life at risk.
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With dancers appearing only periodically, the installation prods us to contemplate how an institution might structure our gaze and, consequently, how looking might objectify indigenous women's bodies in particular.
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But, as Travis prods her, she eventually acquiesces to her son with the practiced shrug and very loving smile of someone who has been in this spot many times before.
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In Claude Chabrol's suspense classic, the secretive maid (Sandrine Bonnaire) of a wealthy family takes up with a postmistress (Isabelle Huppert), who prods her to rail against her bourgeois employers.
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The 13-page report, culled from court testimony, veterinary records, and medical research, offers accounts of bullhook abuse and examples of electric prods being used on elephants at the center.
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By scanning several thousand people, healthy and sick, while subjecting them to burns, pokes, prods, and electric shocks, she has pioneered experimental methods to survey the neural landscape of pain.
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They attested to murders, rapes, beatings and tortures — one inmate, Danny Bennett, died after he was shocked with cattle prods and left unconscious under the sun in 100-degree heat.
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The device prods you to reach your goals throughout the day, with specific requests to knock out steps, and you'll get a call to action after long periods of inactivity.
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One reason, I think, is the cunning score, by the British composer Patrick Gowers, which, with its spiky strings, prods Hazan's essay in nonfiction toward the realm of a thriller.
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Using this as a jumping-off point to push further into the #MeToo discussion, Vanasco prods at the question of whether committing a terrible act makes one a bad person.
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Music cues provide unnecessary goosing; cheap re-enactments trace the shooter's whereabouts; and the director, who is sometimes on camera, intersperses good questions with manipulative prods to his grieving subjects.
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In these playful, popping works, Novitskova prods park-goers to consider the ethical enormity of current scientific developments and the blurry boundaries of what we consider a photographic or objective image.
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AFP journalists also reviewed public documents that showed government agencies overseeing the camps purchased 2,768 police batons, 550 electric cattle prods, 1,367 pairs of handcuffs, and 2,792 cans of pepper spray.
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Built for perpetual war to keep the British in Ireland, it has lost its war, and with it the enormous, animating reservoirs of feeling and meaning that kept the "Prods" loyal.
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Trump said he would submit a rebuilding proposal to Congress after taxes, but that could be complicated if the White House prods Republicans to try to repeal and replace ObamaCare again.
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"Often, what it takes to manage these animals in a way that allows people to share space with them is that they're physically abused, disciplined with whips, bars and prods," she said.
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It uses what it refers to as a "machine learning algorithm" to pick out one person per day as your Most Compatible, and prods conversations forward with an "anti-ghosting" Your Turn feature.
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Most smaller robots went down after a few prods with a spear or projectiles to the face — at least what I think is the face — but bigger specimens require more careful combat tactics.
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They forced him to sleep naked on a freezing wet mattress, they strung him up on the wall and left him in stress positions for hours, and they electrocuted him with metal prods.
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He was stuffed into a police vehicle, beaten, and then driven 200 or so miles to the capital, where he was taken to a jail and beaten again with plastic tubes and electric prods.
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In Tokarczuk's characteristic style, the novel prods at the self-image of Poles as Europe's morally oppressed by highlighting what Tokarczuk described in a television interview as "horrendous acts" of colonization they committed themselves.
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To keep the leaves from folding over on themselves, he pokes and prods them occasionally with chopsticks, then gently removes them from the oil to let them rest and drain on a paper towel.
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Fatigue in modern life doesn't just come from adverts, but the often never-ending stream of prods and pokes that remind you that your life is being measured out in ways beyond your control.
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Golf, on the other hand, prods me to keep inventing new theories, because it's easier to come up with one that explains my perpetual failure than it is to keep my left arm straight.
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Rodeos and bull-riding are often criticized by animal welfare groups, and the bull-riders association is at pains to highlight its rules against the use of cattle prods and other inducements to buck.
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The person seeking recovery who seems to come in with the best possible attitude versus the person who comes in looking beyond hopeless prods the viewer to make a distinction that is ultimately false.
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Actress Ann Dowd, whose cruel Aunt Lydia controls rebellious handmaids with cattle prods and ritual humiliation, said she hoped the series would fire up viewers to take to the streets to defend women's rights.
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"It's a wake-up call that prods thinking about the board's fate - how to reform it, and when," said Wang Jin, a lawyer at Hiways Law Firm, who represents some New Third Board companies.
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Because speaking of misery porn and watching women suffer pointlessly, from what I've seen so far, all they do is slowly absorb lethal radiation while shoving soil into bags and getting shocked with cattle prods.
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Kyanna Simone Simpson, as Sasha's levelheaded best friend, prods the show into life whenever she's onscreen, and Lili Taylor is a welcome presence in a small part as doyenne of a creepy Aquarian healing center.
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Last year a retired general, a veteran of more than one coup d'état, felt compelled to accuse the military of colluding with the nomads, who have lately traded their wooden cattle prods for AK-47s.
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In fact, since voters approved Brexit three years ago, the mere prospect of it has harmed the British economy, economists and business executives say, as it prods companies, investors and job-seekers to go elsewhere.
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In the August issue of Allure, Kylie gets grilled by big sister Kim Kardashian — and as only a big sister can, Kim prods Kylie to open up on the subject of any beauty regrets she might have.
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He's retired from competitive figure skating, but now hosts a talk show on ice, teaching the likes of Todrick Hall and Lilli Singh to skate as he gently holds their hands and prods them with personal questions.
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While there, Jane's best friend, Lina, prods her to join Cynder — the show's version of Tinder — and then makes the profile for her, resulting in Jane's going on a surprise blind date that doesn't exactly go well.
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I delight in how pedantic and technical these conversations can be, the conviction and force driving a wacky, pie-in-the-sky trade proposal, the way a host surgically pokes and prods at a caller's logical fallacy.
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After an early unsavory use of "aversives"—punishments, including the use of electric cattle prods, to discourage undesired behaviors—Lovaas and his colleagues settled on an intensive regime of bit-by-bit positive reinforcement of desirable behaviors.
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It is also a place of reckoning, as the book explores and prods Western norms—such as the gender binary or the commodification of nature—that have so often run up against the cultures of Indigenous people.
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"The irony of Mr. Sessions' nomination is that, if confirmed, he will be given a life tenure for doing with a federal prosecution what the local sheriffs accomplished twenty years ago with clubs and cattle prods," she wrote.
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At times, it does seem as if the writers have strung together a roster of coming-of-age movie clichés, including the caring teacher (Hayley Atwell) who recognizes Javed's talent, prods him to write and champions his cause.
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Grace prods the reluctant Del into teaching her how to clean houses and coaxes him out of his shell — which, it turns out, he assumed before the apocalypse, when he was a lonely librarian living in the town.
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It's also what has developed within it, namely an ecosystem of influencers and micro-influencers, sponsored content, and painstakingly curated lives — in short, the kind of envy and aspiration that prods people into typing in their credit card info.
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For one thing, specialists and policy advisers say, it encourages central government officials to hide or falsify data, and it prods local officials to do the same, to meet tough provincial growth targets that feed into the national one.
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Backstage, after the show, the hall was so crammed with well-wishers pushing ever closer that the designer was practically pinned against a wall at one point, guests demanding elucidation and jabbing iPhones toward her face like cattle prods.
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Beneath the wild catharsis of the comedy, the play's sneaky surprise is how it prods us to consider the common good, our duty to the people we love and the blighted choices we're capable of making when we're afraid.
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Margot Silverman, a police expert on serial killers, spree killers and stalkers, is properly worked up by these taunts, which also prods into action Joona Linna, a living legend in crime circles and the heavyweight of the Kepler series.
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Clinton prods DNC for intervention In another email, an attorney for the Clinton campaign appears to advise the DNC on how to respond to a dispute between the two campaigns over how much money Clinton's operation had raised for state parties.
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Host Conan O'Brien prods Ford about why he's been so vocal about wanting Han Solo to die (there's a long history), and there seems to be an intimation that this is the reason he came back for the new movie.
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China's earliest inhabitants probably lived somewhere between the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers, but thousands of years ago the Han Chinese began setting out in search of new homes, spurred on by the familiar prods of overpopulation, war, famine, and unrest.
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From the 1970s to the 1990s, the Chicago Police Department snatched up more than 100 African-American men, including my good friend Aaron Patterson, torturing them with cattle prods, beating them with telephone books and even suffocating them with plastic bags.
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TOKYO, June 20 (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan kept monetary policy steady on Thursday, preferring to save its dwindling ammunition for deeper economic troubles as a darkening global growth outlook prods major central banks to drop hints of additional stimulus.
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Violet Gamart (Patricia Clarkson), the resident grande dame, has other ideas: She wants to transform the historic dwelling into an arts center, and prods her nephew, a member of Parliament, into sponsoring a bill that will lead to Florence's eviction.
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But when he prods her, Rebecca reveals that the journey to bring Randall into the Pearsons was far from easy — especially given her own feelings as she was mourning the loss of one of her triplets during childbirth, but Jack was persistent.
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Perhaps the only group singularly focused on that mission is A Continuous Charity (ACC), a 501c(3) non-profit based out of Irving, Texas, that promises to help Muslims secure interest-free loans, but also prods at the larger status quo in America.
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AFP journalists who reviewed more than 13,500 publicly available government documents also describe disturbing purchases made by government agencies that oversee the so-called education centers: 2,768 police batons, 550 electric cattle prods, 1,367 pairs of handcuffs, and 2,792 cans of pepper spray.
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Earlier this year, animal rights group PETA claimed in a 13-page document that elephants at the Florida compound are abused with electric prods and bullhooks, are "prone to arthritis, infection, and psychological stress," and show a significant risk of contracting tuberculosis while there.
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But even with its faults, I can see why people enjoy Pokémon Go — it's cute and nostalgic (if I ever get a Psyduck, I might have a meltdown), and it prods you to leave your house and go out into the world (Tajiri's fundamental plan).
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The doctor pokes and prods her unapologetically, grilling her on the scars lining her back (as we learned in season one, Julianna was hit by a bus a few years prior) before x-raying her spine, her ribs, and her hips, lingering on her pelvic area.
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In Public Disgrace videos, a woman (or a few) is stripped, bound, and subjected to a series of torments, such as getting zapped with electrical current or flogged, while another performer (or a few) prods and penetrates her body to the cheers and enthusiastic insults of onlookers.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads At the raucous Insanitarium with Blowhole Theater, part of early 20th-century Coney Island's Pavilion of Fun, clowns and dwarfs poked patrons with cattle prods, pushing women over jets of hot air so their skirts blew upward as onlookers gawked.
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Smith says that each area has its own prevalent form of torture: Severed limbs were common in Sierra Leone's civil war; Chinese refugees have often been tortured with electric cattle prods; in Cameroon, it's falanga, a form of torture involving beating the soles of someone's feet.
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Two activists I know have told me in detail about their horrendous treatment during detention: one, in Beijing, was savagely beaten and shocked with electric prods; the other, based in Guangzhou, was interrogated continuously for four days and nights, until he suffered a physical breakdown and lost consciousness.
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Jeffrey Gardner, the American detective in charge, is the soul of compassion; but he'd be more inclined to give up on the file if it weren't for Jenny Quinlan, a trainee constable who prods him into letting her work his case along with a similar killing outside London.
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Veep was really a vision of Washington that suggested everyone harbors a little bit of Trump, because to want to be in politics — which seems, frankly, kind of dreadful — requires the kind of madness that prods one to keep returning, lured by proximity to the halls of power.
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The director, Rick Famuyiwa ("Dope"), accents her discomfort by shooting her from below, lights burning hot overhead, as the Judiciary Committee chairman, Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. (Greg Kinnear), prods her to repeat the name of a porn actor — Long Dong Silver — she said Mr. Thomas discussed in her presence.
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You can also get a sense of what goes on in the camps by examining the lists of equipment that the Chinese government agencies order for the camps — in one case, that included 2,768 police batons, 550 electric cattle prods, 1,367 pairs of handcuffs, and 2,792 cans of pepper spray.
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The trove will give researchers chilling insight into the grisly period from the 1970s to the 1990s when the Chicago Police Department's infamous torture crew rounded up more than 100 African-American men who were shocked with cattle prods, beaten with telephone books and suffocated with plastic bags until many confessed to crimes.
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Cracks and fissures along racial lines emerge over the course of the evening — the couple's son prods his parents, challenging their motivation in buying and displaying art that relies on black suffering; Virginia wants recognition and validation for her work as an ally; Charlotte wonders what exactly they see in her, want from her.
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Drawing on his extensive experience as a columnist "whose lifetime output mainly has been a thousand words or so a week commenting on current affairs," he catches our attention quickly, sets up questions that need answering and writes in a clear, conversational, short-sentence manner, addressing the reader with rhythmic little pokes, prods, provocations.
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Season three is both the most mature exploration of this theme — in that it constantly pokes and prods at that idea to find holes in it (a Milch specialty), but also in that it makes ever more clear that whatever good America used to stand for, it's since been subsumed by far darker portents.
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A decorated Vietnam veteran who had collected 13 police commendations, Mr. Burge and detectives under his command were accused of extracting confessions from more than 100 people while questioning them in the 1970s and '80s by shocking them with cattle prods, smothering them with plastic typewriter covers and pointing guns in their mouths while pretending to play Russian roulette.
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"As the player pokes and prods Kasumi's body with the PlayStation 4's motion controller, she tells him 'I don't like it,' and uses a word that directly translates to 'bad' that is often used to flatly deny permission," Engadget said of the game's PlayStation VR release (under the title Dead or Alive Xtreme 3) in 2016.
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So while smartphone technology has taught us to be accustomed to being continuously disturbed by digital prods and pings, at any and all times of the day or night — to the point of mobile OSes including a 'do not disturb' setting to manually switch off intrusions we otherwise now expect — Apple's championing of facial recognition technology positions face-scanning and face-reading to become the new normal.
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Some academics I interviewed told me they actually think the term "concentration camp" is more accurate here (and considering the electric cattle prods and other methods that are being used in the camps, there's a solid argument to be made for that), but that they have so far avoided using the term because they didn't want the public to think they were just being hyperbolic.
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"Her son is developing an eating disorder, and I wanted to tell her it's because our mother was a monster and you're becoming exactly the same … I never felt comfortable enough in my own skin … Always trying to please them, to please everyone, get them to like me … After we hung up, I wanted to eat the phone I was so mad …" The librarian listens and prods and nods.
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The new piece of world-building, anchored by season 1 breakout Emily (Alexis Bledel), shows both the darkest depths of man, considering the heinous futures Gilead has condemned the women of the Colonies to, and the best parts of ourselves, as out there, near-death and seemingly at the edge of the nation, the inhabitants are able to show each other real care and affection (amid cattle prods, barked orders, and gruesome biological corruptions).
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Just one data point on that: The Washington Post reported today on a letter Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow, Coretta Scott King, wrote opposing Sessions's 1986 nomination, arguing that it would be a blow to her late husband's work for racial equality: The irony of Mr. Sessions' nomination is that, if confirmed, he will be given a life tenure for doing with a federal prosecution what the local sheriffs accomplished twenty years ago with clubs and cattle prods.
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