The nationwide vaccine campaign was deemed superfluous on the basis that it was for them to chivvy vulnerable patients into getting the jab. Flu outbreak: Lessons from the shivers | Editorial

Given so many of us have our own private health and fitness goals it might help to chivvy people along. Cheeseburger Gothic » Hammered.

So what can be done to chivvy along a reclusive pop genius? Don't Give Up, Dr Dre's new material will be arriving soon!

He doles out brisk advice and the occasional terse chivvy. Alain Ducasse gives Paris's poorest women a lifeline

If Cameron wants to liven things up, he should chivvy his hosts on a more intriguing question. Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev: So which of the old allies is truly in charge? | Tom Parfitt

Walking on will only disturb them again and again, and having no wish to chivvy them the length of the beach we detour along the track through the dunes, regaining the sands with the gulls behind us and miles of beach ahead. Country diary: South Uist

As the tension eased he jerked his head, and warily the toughs began to chivvy the laborers into the trucks again. Static

Soon after we arrived, when Joe had gone below stairs to chivvy the porters about our bags, and Annette and I were alone, I excused myself to visit the privy along the way. THE NUMBERS

To chivvy the unconjugal to conjugate may to be store up greater unhappiness. David Cameron should honour his marriage vow