Constance, would you mind not prodding me?

Without their support and prodding, this Agreement would not have been possible.

No, prodding you to talk, so I can enjoy looking at you.

Gradually, many countries, with prodding from their trade unions, now have some form of benefit protection plan for private pensions.

The Israelis discerned Abbas s weakness early on, and once Hamas was elected in a landslide, had little incentive to help him despite the prodding of the United States.

But early warning means more than ocean sensors and satellites it also implies directing construction away from disaster prone areas and prodding private businesses to develop effective safety and evacuation procedures.

At the opposite extreme, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez s undermining of his country s institutions, prodding it onto a narco state trajectory, places Venezuela alongside Haiti as an exception to Latin America s recent economic success.

It has pointed to emerging tensions in the system, without falling into the trap of forecasting ten of the next three crises. And its peer review mechanism is prodding individual countries to strengthen their regulatory institutions.

The doors open, the kids descend on this table of legs, and they are poking and prodding, and they're wiggling toes, and they're trying to put their full weight on the sprinting leg to see what happens with that.

He had three or four friends with him, and he does that, and they all look, and there was no infection, and they bend over me and they're poking and prodding, and they're like, There's no hematomas, blah blah,

The doors open, the kids descend on this table of legs, and they are poking and prodding, and they're wiggling toes, and they're trying to put their full weight on the sprinting leg to see what happens with that.

Gradually, many countries, with prodding from their trade unions, now have some form of benefit protection plan for private pensions. The latest example is the United Kingdom, where trade unions have spurred the creation of the Pension Protection Fund, which will begin operating next year.

Loss of mutual trust between the parties, and their total incapacity to take even the smallest step towards each other, let alone to observe their commitments without prodding by third parties, made (and still makes) an international framework for peace the only way out of the dangerous impasse.