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Example sentences for: prodded

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McLean Credit Union that prodded Congress to take action.
The program, with its combination of rules and incentives, had prodded them to do something they would not have done for themselves.
Its answer: He's bullied and prodded the Legislature to cut taxes and spending.
Several weeks later, CIA officers in Kuala Lumpur prodded colleagues in Bangkok for additional information regarding the three travelers.
Diaz then says that the Food and Drug Administration wants to impose "strict limits on the daily dosage" of ephedrine, the key ingredient in Metabolife, though he concedes (as Ellis prodded him to do in the unedited interview transcript) that "another government agency" (he means the Government Accounting Office) has criticized the FDA's scientific findings.