Sentence examples for common urge from inspiring English sources

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Two years ago, Mr. Sivak was beset by a common urge: to redecorate.

That way lay the prospect of impressive shows of power.Mr Neustadt's two great examples were Roosevelt's New Deal of the 1930s, when bipartisanship was forged out of national despair, and Ronald Reagan's first hundred days, when unity sprang from a common urge to cut taxes.

Peter Dendle, an associate professor at Penn State Mont Alto, has written about the common urge to be a part of "the courageous first generation of naturalists who traced down strange new species in poorly mapped regions to be on to something that even the professors of Harvard do not know about, or to benefit from a cure about which the National Institutes of Health are ignorant".

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A disgusting but all-too-common urge to both glamorize and demonize, all in the name of entertainment and celebrity?

UKIP, which has no representation in the Commons, urged MPs to back Mr Afriyie's call for the referendum to be brought forward.

Mr Cameron has come under fire in the past for personal comments he has made in the Commons, urging shadow transport secretary Angela Eagle to "calm down dear" and suggesting Conservative colleague Nadine Dorries was "very frustrated".

I don't quite know what to make of it myself except to explain it as the common exhibitionist urge, but amped up because there are no consequences: you'll get banned from the site, but you won't be arrested like Pee-wee Herman. Pee-wee Herman

Consuming breast milk plays into a common kinky urge to be infantilized.

An unfortunate private incident involving Gregory and a common natural urge had been surreptitiously taped in study hall.

Two expat friends of mine had bumped into one another in Damascus, learned they had me in common and urged me to visit.

Regarding this line of objection, Kumārila and his commentators finally fall back on an appeal to common sense, urging that it is unreasonable to encourage doubt where no specific cognition of any deficiencies explicitly raises one; otherwise, as the commentator Sucaritamiśra puts it, "there would be the unwanted consequence of annihilating all worldly discourse".

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