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At the same time, the demand for women's rights and the bishops' halfway efforts to accommodate it have goaded female traditionalists into action.

From Time Magazine Archive

When the states have not moved fast enough, citizens have goaded local governments into devising ways to slow growth or stop it cold.

From Time Magazine Archive

And this was admirable: for so hot The fire was, that were red Vesuvius loaded, Besides its lava, with all sorts of shot And shells or hells, it could not more have goaded.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

He declared that he was alone to blame, that some act of remissness, some act of even positive cruelty must have goaded the lad into taking such a step.

From A Hero of Romance by Marsh, Richard

I still think that, while the pursuit lay with me, my methods were the more delicate, and that I should never have goaded him to strike as he goaded me.

From Foe-Farrell by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir