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The negotiations continued to falter for the next several months as the Israeli leader resisted prodding from the White House.

She says she confronted Bietz and his daughter after she saw him leaning over the sea lion and prodding it with a knife.

After working for several years as a federal public defender, she decided to run for judge at the prodding of a mentor.

The final straw came when a cleaner was filmed restraining the elderly man and violently shaking the bed frame before prodding him with a walking stick.

The reductions in water use will be politically difficult, Castle said, but she noted that the seven states have a history “with prodding from the federal government, to ultimately come to agreement around solutions.”