"But Mr. Greenaway turns this tale of a bullying criminal and his unfaithful wife into something profound and extremely rare: a work so intelligent and powerful that it evokes our best emotions and least civil impulses, so esthetically brilliant that it expands the boundaries of film itself".
Legal scholars said Judge Nickerson, whom President Jimmy Carter nominated to the federal bench in Brooklyn in 1977, showed law-and-order sternness when handling criminal cases while often exhibiting a liberal impulse in civil cases.
Communications technology catalyses a primal impulse toward civil rights that cannot be contained.
Obama said last week that the legacy of discrimination had left a persistent economic gap between blacks and whites, but that the civil rights movement's impulse for equality had spread to Hispanics, immigrants, gays and others.
The source of their shared appeal is not any particular program they promoted, like Social Security or civil rights, but a common impulse to encourage a belief in a better — a more prosperous, safer — America.
In "Blood Diamonds" (Westview Press, $26), Greg Campbell, an American freelance journalist based in Colorado, finds his apocalypse in the Sierra Leone town of Kailahun, a place so brutalized by civil war that the only impulse left is the desire to escape.
This approach does not limit the sources of the democratic impulse to transnational civil society.
Integrated landscape initiatives mainly depend on impulses of local civil society.
Good impulse: But how do civil servants keep a step ahead of financial engineers being paid a fortune to create the next generation of credit time bombs?
Ultimately, the article I wrote was about how the "deinstitutionalization movement" of the 1960s and early 1970s — a movement prompted by the same liberal impulses that gave us civil rights and women's rights — had become a national disgrace.
