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A minute later, they were being prodded into a truck like animals to be taken to a detention camp.

Prodded by some far-sighted diplomats, Australia was one of the first countries to wake up to the economic potential of China.

These words can only use certain occasions, as if prodded language abuse, sometimes hurt each other's feelings.

If anything, the judges seem to have prodded the government into a firmer line.

Police prodded her with electric shock clubs until she blistered on her chest, hands and feet.

If Iran can be enticed or, more likely, prodded out of its serial nuclear deceit, the world will indeed be safer.

That episode also prodded many scientists to ratchet up their efforts to understand tsunamis and communicate their danger.

If you know something needs to be done, do it without being prodded.

They just threw me in this cell with you after they poked and prodded me and now I just hope they won't kill us.

I prodded a pretty young marshmallow cretin girl with my crop and made her sprawl on the ground.

The PEMGroup case is the only time that local regulators have prodded banks to cover 100% of retail investors' losses, officials have said.

Prisoners prodded, whipped and steered by stone-faced cadres into holding cells to be crammed side by side, like decaying logs.

Together, we moved slowly into the chaos as she gently prodded me forward.

Doctors poked, prodded, x-rayed, and even cut open parts of my body to assess and repair the damage I had done.

Prodded by the White House, seven Cabinet chiefs announced their departures soon after Nov.

One investor prodded Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook to see the play "The Agony And Ecstasy Of Steve Jobs. "

Prodded by tight regulation, the banks were much more conservative in their lending than their American counterparts.

That contrasted with statements reflecting religious experience, which prodded the brain to retrieve memories and imagery of self in action.

The Obama administration has repeatedly prodded Europeans to shore up the euro.

A 64-year-old UK man withstood 300000 volts of electricity when lightning struck his fork as he prodded sausages on a barbecue.

Awkward or wordy phrasing or unclear sentences and paragraphs should be mercilessly poked and prodded into shape.

The facts prodded at my imagination.

If China remains part of the problem, it may need to be prodded .

I was not delivered unto this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd .

On Monday, rebels who had taken over a military airbase outside the capital prodded two new prisoners in the bed of a truck.

I prodded these eggs with a pipette and sucked the contents out completely so that only the shells remained.

The government prodded supportive business executives to help finance the league and its 12 teams.

Parasites thriving in the Connection Machine prodded sorters to devise a solution more efficient than the ones they found without parasites.

As long as the sufferer is not prodded too hard, or denied a clear view of television, no ethical rules are violated.

And as the energy industry adapts to new conditions, that architecture is being poked, prodded, explored, and expanded.

They prodded (at) the animal through the bars of its cage.

They are also prodded to look ahead, explains Robert Morris, who helps devise the firm's research strategy.

Brokerage clients will be prodded to give up paper account statements for cheaper electronic documents.

The girl started laughing as he prodded me out.

She prodded me on the shoulder with her thumb.

Others may relish more their sudden freedom from being relentlessly prodded to spend and consume.

" Yet, I smiled inwardly each time they prodded Hannah to touch with " one finger.

The toad cannot be prodded, pushed or shoved.

"It's an honor, because she was very special, " she admits when prodded.

He teased them, prodded them, showed them how he had learned to use his shoulders and arms.

He prodded a fork into the kidney and slapped it over : then fitted the teapot on the tray.

Bush did. Mr. Bush prodded China for years to adjust its exchange rate with little success.

When he was done I went over, gave him some money and prodded at his memory.

Mr. Bush prodded China for years to adjust its exchange rate with little success.

With such nagging she prodded him day after day until he was tired to death.

EARTH excepted, the most probed and prodded planet in the solar system is Mars.

Prodded by Italy and Spain, the EU imposed duties on Chinese and Vietnamese footwear imports in 2006.

And they prodded into exercising by being forced to jump and jump until they were exhausted.

Prodded by Beijing, Mr. Kim experimented with economic liberalization in 2002 by allowing some markets to form.

Regrettably, not much should be expected from a neutered Japan on that front, unless actively prodded by the US mentor, that is.

" Zhuge Liang prodded Huang again by saying, " Though you are valiant, I am afraid you are not Zhang He's match because you are too old.

Prodded with commercial brands in China set up a branch office, the product's packaging labels gradually.

he prodded water buffaloes through the rice-fields, but also received a suspiciously good education.

Can't you remember? The friend prodded.

And prodded me on with great vigor and pride.

But they were prodded by the bond market: yields were over 10% in 1982 and around 6% in 1993.

a book that prodded the nation into a belated concern for theimpoverished

That happened in Japan in 2002-03, when zombie banks were at last prodded to own up to their bad debts, and in America last year.

The FDA has prodded new rules. New rules are designed to