Sentence examples for controlling desire from inspiring English sources

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An obsession with tabloid headlines gave rise to a controlling desire to appear tough, from which the government has never recovered.

The mind losing sight of the fact that persons are around him, is occupied by the one controlling desire, a desire which absorbs every faculty of his being.

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These results have important ramifications for controlling desired morphology for polymer electronics, such as organic photovoltaics (OPV), organic field effect transistor (OFET) and photo-detectors.

Such novel apparatus, by reliably and automatically controlling desired ball flight characteristics without neglecting air drag, allows for a systematic investigation of naturalistic interceptive tasks.

These were related to food consumption habits (so-called health food, timing, food color choices), prejudices and attitudes related to obesity and problems with controlling desires.

In the ebb and flow of movement, and the ominously shadowed music, we sense a measured, controlled desire.

It is, as London recognized, a moral problem: the inability to control desire, and thus to direct the course of one's own life.

Perhaps Dreiser could afford no more than the chicken; and perhaps he could afford better and he glowed because his ability to control desire gave him a feeling of strength and even of power.

Remember, these are the Red Sox, and they are capable of self-destructive behavior in their intense, out-of-control desire to beat the Yankees.

What F.I.I. does is create a structure for families that encourages the sense of control, desire for self-determination, and mutual support that have characterized the collective rise out of poverty for countless communities in American history.

A couple of good new ideas for trying to rein in the government's out-of-control desire to collect every bit of data on every phone call we make came through my email this morning.

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