The paper -- a policy summation that every president is required to submit to Congress -- seems in some sections to be animated by the most enlightened and constructive impulses of the land of Jefferson, Lincoln and the Marshall Plan.
But, because the thirty per cent of Americans who remain die-hard Bush supporters have a death grip on their party, those candidates won't say so, choosing to repress their constructive impulses and sound as shallow and jingoistic as possible while campaigning.
If from the beginning of the year the classroom is stable and reliable, with clear rules, consistent discipline, and greater emphasis on recognizing good behavior than on punishing bad, Dr. Raver believes that stressed-out students will be less likely to feel threatened and better able to regulate their less constructive impulses.
Carlos Lopez, director of Off the Wall, an AIDS education and awareness program founded 10 years ago by Ken Davis, a Yonkers community police officer, and run by the Yonkers Community Action Program, tries to channel the creative impulse into constructive outlets and frames his message in a form that youths can relate to.
All powerful human impulses are constructive as well as destructive.
The trick is to channel those impulses in a constructive direction.
Somehow I was able to find more constructive accommodations for all these impulses.
It can channel our gambling impulses into something more constructive.
His father, channeling those impulses in the only constructive way he could think of, created a better monster of his son's nature: a serial killer of serial killers.
He had done humanitarian work for decades in some of the world's worst war zones, driven by an impulse he likes to call "constructive outrage".
