Sentence examples for driven by the thought from inspiring English sources

It arrived at his home eight years ago, as he was literally looking at himself in the mirror, driven by the thought of what sort of blighted life his wife and young family could expect unless he managed a radical overhaul.

Hodgson believes he can emulate Giovanni Trapattoni, one of the managers he admires the most, by working into his 70s and is driven by the thought of trying to make up for the disappointment of the last World Cup, when England went out at the group stage for the first time since 1958 and were eliminated after only six days.

The above decision was driven by the thought that refluxing in an inert atmosphere, will control the defect formation and lead to a smooth surface, thereby providing identical surface sites, resulting in an enhanced catalytic activity of the nanocomposite formed.

Typically, supervenience claims are driven by the thought that one can only affect the higher-order (in this case mental) properties of an event or object by affecting its lower-order (physical) properties.

In other stories, they are other Australians or anyone driven by the anxious thought that memory is both too much and not enough.

When Kosgei, 28, won the Bermuda International Half-Marathon in early January, finishing nearly three minutes in front of her nearest competitor, she was driven by the same thought that pushes her to the trails each morning as she faces another day apart from her son, Michael — prove that the sacrifice is worth it.

I wrote lines and lines of iambic pentameter, speaking it round the house to myself, trying to get to the point where I might be able to improvise the verse fluidly, hoping that if I could, the writing would be driven by the desires and thoughts of the characters, rather than aesthetics or metric requirements.

"I generally find that people out in the big wide world do [ask more interesting questions] because they are less driven by the issues of the day and more driven by deeper thoughts," Gillard said.

The association between SE and negative affect might be driven by the protective role of SE, particularly for responding to disruptive behaviour and controlling upsetting thoughts against negative affect.

The thought is that MELD relates to renal and liver function, whereas the serum ECM markers describe the hepatic ECM remodelling driven by the disease, thus complementing each other.

Winning teams are driven by the players.