Sentence examples for control your instincts from inspiring English sources

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

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

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.

Black cannot control his predatory instincts: he grabs two irrelevant pawns.

The suggestion that some Americans "can't control their base instincts" without someone with a badge surveilling them is the kind of logic that led to mass incarceration and the war on drugs, he said.

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.

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 mission that our mainstream media has claimed for itself is to continually reflect back to us our inability to control our worst instincts.