(1) From there, I graduated to the main board, where Peter chivvied me to be bolder, to complain more loudly about BR's hopeless record on equal opportunities, to make my weight felt.
(2) Ms Sturgeon spoke on the close of a consultation which confirmed that the Catholic and, indeed, many other churches retain their power to chivvy their faithful into picking up a pen: two-thirds of a record-breaking 77,000 respondees registered resistance to the change.
(3) The government chivvies its contractors to do a thousand things correctly.
(4) But, he added, courts should not be used as "an instrument … [to] chivvy parliament into spring-cleaning the statute book".
(5) Every society has some people with all manner of problems: however much you chivvy and bully them they are unlikely to appeal to employers.
(6) The great Luxembourg leak last year and the work that Margaret Hodge’s public accounts committee did in chivvying Starbucks to come clean about its Dutch dealings in 2012 led to the measures now being taken.
(7) The near-vertical rock faces were far more challening than I was expecting and – though it pains me to say it – I wouldn't have made it to the top without Rob there to chivvy me along.
(8) The striker gestured with his outstretched arms and initially dragged his heels as he made his way off, until Flamini came across to chivvy him along.
(9) The company employed Carter-Ruck to chivvy journalists into obedient silence and then, having secured the mother of all super-injunctions, made the mistake of warning journalists that they could not even report mentions of Trafigura in parliament.
(10) UN warns over global fallout from debt crisis in poor countries Read more The IMF hopes the debt data published in its half-yearly fiscal report will chivvy governments into action before it is too late.
(11) He disliked his schooldays, although he was a useful rugby player and remembered with deep gratitude "Joe" Craddock, a master who proved kindly under his gruff exterior, and who chivvied the boys in his German class to such effect that Judt still commanded the language more than 40 years on.
(12) Meanwhile, on the coast of Somalia, armed ganglords chivvy the locals into a piracy expedition.
(13) And he was chivvying people into the government lobby!
(14) But the real issue is why the international community, after a seven-month air campaign, neglected post-conflict reconstruction.” “When Gaddafi died, Libya actually had, by the standards of most post-conflict states, pretty good chances of making a smooth transition to peace and stability,” Chivvis explains.
(15) We are not in the same situation but the rights that women assume here – not to be abused or raped, to "aspire" to equal representation in public life and at work – are being chivvied way.
(16) In the end, he was killed by his own citizens,” Chivvis says.
(17) When the Sainsbury's queue fascist approaches with the intention of chivvying me into the robot pen, I simply say, politely, "No thank you", and stay put.
(18) General Sharif chivvied politicians this year into giving the army sweeping new constitutional powers, including the right to try civilian terror suspects in military courts, in the wake of last year’s attack by the Pakistani Taliban on an army school in the city of Peshawar, which killed more than 130 school boys .
(19) If Cameron wants to liven things up, he should chivvy his hosts on a more intriguing question.
(20) The ad consists of Dana Chivvis, the show’s producer, recording various people on the streets of New York saying the company’s name.