Sentence examples for control their instincts from inspiring English sources

Racism may be a strange word to bandy about when discussing gay rights, but when laws against homosexuality were rolled out across the empire, it was to control and subjugate peoples who were considered unable to control their "instincts" and to protect the settlers from "native" cultures that did not punish "perverse" sex enough.

That slander was compounded by myths that Africans were too promiscuous and could not control their instincts.

Straight talk was a way to protect adolescents from themselves by inspiring them to confront and control their instincts.

Some people are better than others at controlling their instincts and impulses; Nixon from all appearances did a poor job of that.

And it's certainly not The Teenage Girl's responsibility to help teenage boys, or college guys, or middle-aged men, control their basest instincts.

The episode illustrates both how mighty men have their failings and how the best of them are able to control their own improper instincts.

"It's an indication of a person having great difficulty controlling their sexual instincts".

"Countries run by dictatorships even try to control human instincts".

If it wasn't indelibly marked on your grocery list, control your instincts and move on quickly.

The latter era, of course, opened on 6 August 1945, the first day of the countdown to what may be the inglorious end of this strange species, which attained the intelligence to discover the effective means to destroy itself, but – so the evidence suggests – not the moral and intellectual capacity to control its worst instincts.

Fawn all you want over the gold and the Milanese band and the leather but a watch is a tool to distract, pummel, and control our baser instincts into a modern world.