• More than anyone else, Warren was the prod for the high court's subsequent hyperactivism, which has since infected the rest of the country's judicial system.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • Upon second request, she might listen, but again ignore the prod.

    FORBES: It's Not Nagging: The Power of Persistent, Redundant Communication

  • Instead of threatening the future of America's guitars, though, one veteran musician hopes the furore can prod the industry towards a sustainable future.

    BBC: Are Gibson guitars killing the rainforest?

  • By this week it had become a flaming political row in Spain, and one of the rare events to prod the European Union into almost instant reaction.

    ECONOMIST: The Prestige oil spill

  • Elections give voters the chance to prod it in the right direction.

    ECONOMIST: Governing Japan

  • By typing over the old commands, he can push the turbocharger to run faster or prod the fuel injector to add more fuel.

    FORBES: How to Hack Your Car

  • He did not always take the cattle prod.

    ECONOMIST: Jim Clark

  • The WTO thus needs to decide on a strong leader from the four candidates on offer, someone who can prod the world's trade ministers to live up to the ambitions they promised at Doha.

    ECONOMIST: Trading places

  • For more than a year, the owners of the Kings, the Maloof family, former owners of the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, have used the threat of a sale to outside investors to prod the city of Sacramento into putting together a new arena package.

    WSJ: Seattle Hopes for Boost In Pro-Team Franchise

  • And the late pressure paid off as Lita pounced on to Welsh's cross to prod the ball past Waterman from close range in the 90th minute.

    BBC: England U21 1-2 Holland U21

  • In developing Asia, the dominant banks fear losing their loan book to disintermediation, and governments have failed to prod the banks to develop capital-market alternatives, except in Hong Kong and Singapore.

    ECONOMIST: But in Asia they will take time to build

  • Mr Koizumi claims to be pushing through many modernisations to government and the economy, but in the absence of an opposition to prod it along the push has slowed.

    ECONOMIST: Japan's opposition

  • The chimpanzees, all members of an adult family group at the zoo, had to prod sticks into holes in the pipes to change the direction of the dice and get them to fall in the right place.

    BBC: Chimpanzee at Whipsnade Zoo

  • Ariads scientists will try to prod the gene into producing more or less bone formation protein, switching the gene on and off.

    FORBES: A hail of silver bullets

  • That could prod the countries to head off fiscal irresponsibility by involving themselves more deeply in each other's tax and spending policies.

    WSJ: As Ireland Flails, Europe Lurches Across the Rubicon

  • He might prod the government to do the right thing against Goldman.

    FORBES: It's Getting Harder To Defend Goldman Sachs

  • But China will continue trying to prod the North Koreans into reforming the economy and opening the country more to the outside world.

    ECONOMIST: North Korea's succession

  • This should be enough to prod the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to scrap its arbitrary mandatory retirement age of 60 for commercial pilots.

    FORBES: Fact And Comment

  • The only live wire is Shakur, with his deep wariness of life, who has a couple of sprightly scenes that prod the picture awake.

    NEWYORKER: Poetic Justice

  • When weather permits, NASA planetary geologists and biologists poke and prod the rocks and waterways of the island to dig up clues about terrestrial and perhaps martian natural history.

    CNN: Mars 'colonists' undaunted by bad luck, punishing weather

  • But if doctors can preserve remaining insulin production in their new patients, they might someday be able to layer on other drugs that would prod the insulin-producing cells to slowly regenerate.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • As our internet was down, we paired it straight to the phone, but it required a little fiddling to get it working first time out -- that was until we'd given it one more sync with the phone to prod it back into life.

    ENGADGET: Withings WS-30 WiFi bathroom scale hands-on Hands-on

  • She would undo most if not all of the "structural" reforms that have been put in place in recent years--mayoral control, performance-based pay, charter laws and other choice schemes, reliance on entrepreneurship and market incentives, federal efforts to incentivize and prod the system to change in constructive directions, testing- and results-based accountability and more.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The Bush Administration should gently prod Prime Minister Tony Blair to begin the necessary process of deflating and derailing this misbegotten French initiative.

    FORBES: Put it where it belongs

  • Alastair Cook again seemed out of sorts and was feeling for the ball outside off-stump, a hesitant prod fizzing off the inside edge through a large gap between bat and pad to uproot his leg stump.

    BBC: Pietersen century rescues England

  • That users could choose to shut off the flow altogether would be a prod to advertisers to create the appearance of value in their marketing messages.

    FORBES: Move up http://i.forbesimg.com t Move down

  • After all, they have the best advantage of all: the 3D multisensory surround of product that can prod and inspire all the senses.

    FORBES: Best Buy Ready To Think Outside The Big Box?

  • Once an animal is in a chute, the small space where an animal is held just before it enters the ring, she said, a prod can only be used on the shoulder of a horse if the judge, contestant and owner of the animal all agree that it is needed because a horse will not leave the chute.

    BBC: Are rodeos a form of culture or cruelty?

  • The revamp reflects a big push to prod users to spend more time on the site and curry favor with brands hoping to be noticed by Facebook's users.

    WSJ: Facebook Unveils Sweeping Changes to News Feed

  • Some 2, 000 members converged on the Capitol on Tuesday for a rally and to prod their senators to support the measure -- causing opponents to cry foul and claim the debate was scheduled for the Legionnaires' benefit.

    CNN: Flag desecration amendment fails in Senate

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