"We wanted to know how much prodding they will need," he said.

Just a prodding of what every man already carried within him.

But after some prodding, he gave it a try anyway.

His public prodding was crucial in making the industry do a better job.

Of course, there are times when prodding is not needed to bring out a crowd.

After the first went through the opening, the others followed with little prodding.

She got a child on the phone who with some prodding admitted his name.

Congress has been doing its own prodding on the matter, with another bill introduced this week.

And at such a pace as her own prodding could never have won from them.

To the contrary, she's the one doing all the prodding.

But despite some prodding, he never did get around to answering.

With a little prodding from his mother, Joy, he could name the year: 1978.

But finally, after more outraged prodding from me, he got to the bottom line.

"Men do need some prodding in seeking treatment," he said.

Sometimes, the prodding comes in the form of verbal abuse.

If any state needs federal prodding to achieve better results, Utah does.

On Friday afternoon, with some prodding from the executive committee, he let go.

The head nodded back at the prodding of his toe.

Further prodding revealed that they had been at a birthday party.

And they may have occurred only in response to Claire's prodding.

But he added: "You need the prodding of this legislation."

But it appears that the college did not undertake the change without some prodding.

So it is possible that he will require no further prodding."

He stopped, though, feeling a curious prodding in his chest.

Nor does the wheel want to return to a neutral center without some prodding.

But perhaps most important, no one is prodding him to go.

Yet there was never any sense of the music being prodded.

But she was prodding me in the back with it.

Even then he would have to prod her through every step.

When I prodded for more information, she was ready to move on to the next question.

It was hard enough to talk myself into going on without prodding him along as well.

I had been prodding the President to get out into the open and meet the people more.

I never can get over how you have to prod people to do things for their own good.

He has not been able to prod them into success.

At first, the students needed to be prodded to post.

She prodded the force field that kept the cold out.

She used it to prod me into the living room.

So why did I have to prod him to dance with her?

She looked surprised, then prodded him to return to the living room.

He prodded the body with his foot, then turned away.

This time I made it all the way to my room before he prodded me.

Jack prodded me even as I tried to force the idea out of my head.

But if true, he said, it might finally prod the government to focus on the needs of its people.

I had her angry enough to talk, but prodded just a little more.

Perhaps his title should be the next you take for your own, she prodded.

Or they can be prodded, but not pushed, to go home.

She prodded him in the side, with her foot, he thought.

The driver prodded her ahead of him into the building.

Talk of the war came up only when prodded by a reporter's questions.

Something that felt like a small tree prodded her; in the back.

He looked back at me and brought the prod up close.

He felt the prod of a gun in his side.

The prod he'd just used fell where his feet had been a second before.

Clearly, the girl needed a prod in the right direction.

The insurance companies are probably giving him the prod, too.

His back was to the table now, and he had dropped the prod on it.

She was not sure that her mental prod did any good now.

His firm prod was enough this time to get her moving.

People poke and prod, which is bad form in this world.

For some, if not many, it would undoubtedly be a prod.

There's no prod more effective than bringing a woman into the house.

I believe that my suggestion also could serve as such a prod.

She reached out and poked him again with the prod.

The guards never lay a hand on you, much less a prod.

There was no misunderstanding the prod in her hand, though.

The thought was a knife's prod to his back, keeping him moving.

He pulled the prod out and crouched back down against the building.

She assisted the movement with a prod of the gun.

The wizards were great ones for the prod as a means of getting attention.

He moved his prod back from Logan's neck about two feet.

To me they seemed just a little too much on the prod for honest ranch hands.

These were especially cryptic, but in all cases, perhaps with a little prod, his call was put through.

The remarks were seen as a mild prod to act on the issue.

Give it a prod and you'll see what I mean."

It was directed by 75 Prod and is once again animated.