Sentence examples for bad impulses from inspiring English sources

Only starting in the '30s were organized labor and organized liberalism able to restrain the bad impulses of the business system.

He is generous with his characters, even at their worst, but he also regards them with a measure of detachment as their good intentions go astray and their bad impulses bear terrible fruit.

Readers also responded to Neil Genzlinger's City Critic column about playing miniature golf as a way to curb bad impulses: I was delighted to read your informative and insightful article on the Van Deusens and the influence of the Dutch here in N.Y.C.

And, according to the court arguments of Bob Bennett, Mr Clinton's private lawyer, two other things curb the bad impulses of the chief executive: lack of time (he is too busy governing the country), and the constant scrutiny of the press.

Bad impulses seize each of Moore's beguiling characters: an obsessed filmmaker who ignores ominous cardiopulmonary warnings; her niece, who experiments with petty thievery and politically motivated vandalism; a young hot-dog vendor who feels threatened by the Russian hoodlum living upstairs.

Because of his situation, he acts on his bad impulses.

It's not a bad impulse: If we were literally blind to race, there'd be no discrimination.

The duality of his nature was explained by the existence of a good and bad impulse, personified by two angels, yetzer ha-ṭov (the good inclination) and yetzer ha-raʿ (the evil inclination), which enter each man after birth.

"For a lot of Mexicans, the big impulse is 'Well, that's just too bad, but at least we got rid of the bad guys,' " said Jorge Castañeda, a former presidential candidate.

I think when we want something bad enough, impulse and instinct take over.

In fact, it might be the case that -- exactly because they aren't accountable to the electorate -- the justices are best able to recognize when a bad majoritarian impulse is going to cause the government to run roughshod over the rights of minorities that are necessary to real freedom and that are protected only by the Constitution.