(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.
Rapidly
Definition:
(adv.) In a rapid manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) An automated continuous flow sample cleanup system intended for rapid screening of foods for pesticide residues in fresh and processed vegetables has been developed.
(2) We attribute this in part to early diagnosis by computed tomography (CT), but a contributory factor may be earlier referrals from country centres to a paediatric trauma centre and rapid transfer, by air or road, by medical retrieval teams.
(3) It is followed by rapid neurobehavioral deterioration in late infancy or early childhood, a developmental arrest, plateauing, and then either a course of retarded development or continued deterioration.
(4) Because cystine in medium was converted rapidly to cysteine and cysteinyl-NAC in the presence of NAC and given that cysteine has a higher affinity for uptake by EC than cystine, we conclude that the enhanced uptake of radioactivity was in the form of cysteine and at least part of the stimulatory effect of NAC on EC glutathione was due to a formation of cysteine by a mixed disulfide reaction of NAC with cystine similar to that previously reported for Chinese hamster ovarian cells (R. D. Issels et al.
(5) The level of gadd45 mRNA increased rapidly after X rays at doses as low as 2 Gy.
(6) Rapid overgrowth of all cultures with the E. coli necessitated the use of selective media containing antimicrobial agents to which the E. coli was sensitive.
(7) Our results indicate that increasing the delay for more than 8 days following irradiation and TCD syngeneic BMT leads to a rapid loss of the ability to achieve alloengraftment by non-TCD allogeneic bone marrow.
(8) Mannose receptor mediated uptake by the reticuloendothelial system has been suggested as an explanation for the rapid removal of ricin A chain antibody conjugates from the circulation after their administration.
(9) Collagen production of rapidly thawed ligaments was studied by proline incubation at 1 day, 9 days, or 6 weeks after freezing and was compared with that of contralateral fresh controls.
(10) We have developed a new procedure for the rapid preparation of undegraded total RNA from cultured cells for specific quantitation by dot blotting analysis.
(11) A significant correlation was found between the amplitude ratio of the R2 and the sensitivity ratio of the rapid off-response at short and long wavelengths.
(12) The adaptive filter processor was tested for retrospective identification of artifacts in 20 male volunteers who performed the following specific movements between epochs of quiet, supine breathing: raising arms and legs (slowly, quickly, once, and several times), sitting up, breathing deeply and rapidly, and rolling from a supine to a lateral decubitus position.
(13) This is an easy, safe, and rapid alternative for the emergent treatment of superior vena caval syndrome.
(14) Recognition of the distinctive morphology of MH and the performance of ancillary studies on cytologic preparations should facilitate the rapid diagnosis and early treatment of this aggressive disease.
(15) This is rapidly followed by a gamut of changes leading to demyelination.
(16) It is suggested that the rapid phase is due to clearance of peptides in the circulation which results in a fall to lower blood concentrations which are sustained by slow release of peptide from binding sites which act as a depot.
(17) From these results it was concluded that FITC-Con A staining method applied to smear specimens is more advantageous in the rapidity and the simplicity for tumor cell diagnosis than section specimen method.
(18) Intranasal challenge of allergic subjects with the allergen to which they are sensitive rapidly produces sneezing, rhinorrhea, and airway obstruction.
(19) An intravenous bolus of 300 micrograms.kg-1 of 3-desacetylvecuronium was rapidly injected into the jugular vein.
(20) The fall of the cell number in the liquor cerebrospinalis was more rapidly in the GAGPS treatment.