When the flash of a neighboring firefly is detected, the voltage across a capacitor experiences a sudden impulse, advancing the firefly's charging cycle closer to its neighbor's.
Unlike most of his Foggy Bottom brethren, however, Bob White didn't merely represent state interests -- the primary job of any diplomat -- but struggled to advance a too-little honored American impulse to protect human rights.
Planning in advance, to avoid impulse buys but also to maximize your ingredients, is the first rule by which to live.
It displays an urgent outpouring of pent-up creative energy from a director well advanced in his career but tapping into ideas, impulses, and talents that somehow have been kept under wraps throughout his decades of artistic activity.
Therefore, politicians and the government together must provide innovative impulses in order to support and to advance the current development towards electricity generation based on renewable energies.
The theory is, if aliens can get it together enough to be able to create technology that looks to life beyond their solar system, they have advanced enough as a species to put their primitive, warlike impulses behind them.
Next is advanced an even more titillating notion: Female suicide bombers are motivated by a desperate feminist impulse.
The Forced Migration Studies Program at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, which has examined the nation's continuing xenophobic impulses, concludes that local political leaders often instigate the violence as a means to advance personal agendas.
But many of us know that the interrogative impulse can get us into trouble with civic or activist partners who want art-making to advance us toward a pre-determined goal.
They feel less like the upshot of the "chaos theory" that many analysts advance about President Donald Trump — which would suggest the risks are calculated — and more like the fallout from an "impulse theory" — which would suggest they're not.
But while the anecdotes advance the action, they contribute to a sense of nostalgia which battles with the play's psychological impulses.
