Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. From LearnThat.org. [Thomas Watson (1874-1956).]
Now my goad is the accusatory spines of unread books on my shelves. From Wordnik.com. [Developing Speed-Reading Skills] Reference
Shira is also known as goad saanja so this flatbread is called saanjori. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference
The goad was a formidable sharpointed instrument, sometimes ten feet long. From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
The tiger turned its attention from Inza to Elsie, and the latter struck at it, as if the goad were a spear. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Merriwell's Reward] Reference
"I've seen oxen driven, and the man who drove them didn't use reins as they do on horses, though he did have a goad, which is like a whip.". From Wordnik.com. [Six Little Bunkers at Uncle Fred's] Reference
He prefers to call the training hooks by the Sanskrit-derived term ankus, meaning "goad," and compares them to dog collars. From Wordnik.com. [latimes.com - News] Reference
The oxen were urged on by a "goad," or long staff pointed at the end, so that if occasion arose it could be used as a spear also. From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
(revised version "goad," Acts 9: 5; 26: 14) of tradition, training, and education; yet he hesitated not. From Wordnik.com. [Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern] Reference
Or are you trying to goad us into a Facebook petition?. From Wordnik.com. [Leave Coleen be. She only wants to save her family] Reference
But novelty was once a powerful goad to do the right thing. From Wordnik.com. [THE BARRIERS, AND BEYOND] Reference
Allecto goad the queen with the encircling Bacchic madness. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
Advance became imperative under the goad of fear and suffering. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
Apollo clash the reins and ply the goad in her maddened breast. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
Low estrogen will also goad the pituitary to churn out more FSH. From Wordnik.com. [Understanding “Perimenopause”] Reference
But that terror was just the goad they needed to make them fight. From Wordnik.com. [The Highest Treason] Reference
But though Albright is goad and conscience, this really isn't her war. From Wordnik.com. [The Good Soldier] Reference
Then an inspiration came and under its goad Wiley almost cursed aloud. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
The city, too, has learned to absorb demonstrators rather than goad them. From Wordnik.com. [The Fire Last Time] Reference
Agharias pulled out the golden haft and found that they had chosen the goad. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
Alas, Father Victor, you forge your own spurs and goad yourself with your own hands. From Wordnik.com. [Riders of the Silences] Reference
Do you think you can goad a man to desperation and leave him as cool as when you began?. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
If the thought of a hostile takeover a year or two from now is a goad, so much the better. From Wordnik.com. [A KNIGHT FOR SONY] Reference
That was the thought which was at once a nightmare and a goad to further desperate effort. From Wordnik.com. [If You Don't Write Fiction] Reference
In the best-case scenario, livedoor's decline could even serve as a goad to further reform. From Wordnik.com. [End of a Rebel Culture?] Reference
Indeed, it may take a trusted "fake newsman" to goad real news programs to stop being so fake. From Wordnik.com. [Amarnath Amarasingam: Jon Stewart's 'Million Moderate March'] Reference
Egypt is like a fair and beautiful heifer: there shall come from the north one that shall goad her. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 28: Jeremias The Challoner Revision] Reference
"If the thought of a hostile takeover a year or two from now is a goad, so much the better," he says. From Wordnik.com. [Sony Is Not Japan] Reference
None other than Howard Stern had her on his show 10 years ago to goad his boys 'club into seeing "Notting Hill.". From Wordnik.com. [Why Is This Woman Smiling?] Reference
A new federal order formally barring the group from Cuban airspace is no guarantee that they won't try to goad Castro further. From Wordnik.com. [Troubled Waters] Reference
Democratic Party spokesman Michael McCurry envisions "a great parlor sport to see who can goad him into saying something he shouldn't.". From Wordnik.com. [The New Mario Scenario] Reference
Shows like "Dora" and "Blue's Clues" goad kids into interacting with the television set; studies show this improves problem-solving skills. From Wordnik.com. [Guilt Free TV] Reference
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