(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.
Goad
Definition:
(v. t.) A pointed instrument used to urge on a beast; hence, any necessity that urges or stimulates.
(v. t.) To prick; to drive with a goad; hence, to urge forward, or to rouse by anything pungent, severe, irritating, or inflaming; to stimulate.
Example Sentences:
(1) They have informed, advocated and sometimes goaded participants in a way that will be entirely familiar to people in Europe.
(2) Thereby, it serves as a goad to thinking about conflicts between pregnant women and their fetuses in a way that emphasizes relationships rather than rights.
(3) The three young men were trying to get to grips with a troubling scene in which they lark about with a baby in its pram, poking it, pulling off its nappy, goading each other until they stone it to death.
(4) Francesco Totti has escaped with a spell on the naughty step for goading Lazio fans in the wake of Sunday's Rome derby, but has been fined €10,000 for each thumb he pointed down in a bid to rile them up.
(5) The public conscience has been stirred and professional groups--doctors, lawyers, legislators and law enforcement agencies--goaded on many occasions by feminist groups, have deliberated the various aspects of this problem.
(6) Where Google News has a sentence that tells you what the story is, Goad notes: "Facebook often has the first paragraph, so they're stealing – if you want to use that word – more of the content."
(7) I can’t tell if he’s goading him, or wanting him to join in, or do something differently.
(8) We had two young daughters who would goad him into conversation, as children will.
(9) He used a number of accounts to goad his victims when they attempted to block his comments, saying police "would do nothing" about his tirade of abuse.
(10) Goaded, taunted and tormented by the prosecution, Pistorius was perhaps his own worst enemy during cross-examination, suffering surprising memory lapses and appearing evasive, agitated, petulant and self-contradictory.
(11) Baillie, Scottish Labour’s effective interim leader at Holyrood while the party votes on a successor to replace Johann Lamont, had goaded Salmond.
(12) To a packed Bundestag, Merkel said it was "absurd" to claim Germany was trying to "dominate" Europe – an accusation which has become ever more widespread after one of her MPs made goading comments that "Europe was now speaking German" .
(13) Locals say the gangs were goaded into the violence by others from their factions elsewhere in Rio.
(14) We have a president-elect who penned in journalists at his rallies, has continued to goad the press even after his election win, and who has history of threats against journalists.
(15) He heard the boos and the goading battle cries: "No Surrender to the IRA", "Judas!
(16) But our state must resist the temptation to be goaded into tackling complicated issues with simplistic, divisive laws.
(17) "Twitter is no longer purely in the domain of early adopters; rather it is becoming a universal tool which is being used increasingly by all types of internet users, regardless of their online preferences," Goad noted.
(18) "A typical website in the UK receives around two in every five visits from search engines and obviously, the vast majority of those come via Google," according to Robin Goad, research director at Hitwise UK.
(19) Not like at the Spectator garden party, where one eyewitness described the two cabinet ministers goading each other “like a pair of rutting stags locking antlers”.
(20) He has only ever talked about his experiences once and was angry with Frischmann for revealing this in a moment of weakness as she was being goaded about her 'privileged' upbringing.