Sentence examples for impulse against from inspiring English sources

It seems unthinkable that even a man with a conspiratorial bent like Jimmy Lee Dykes, Ethan's kidnapper, would bear a violent impulse against the familiar small-town universe of school buses and name tags.

With a little of the contortionist's art, it is possible to line up Serialism, Neo-Classicism, Dadaism and the continuing Romantic impulse against the violent political hangovers of post-World War I and the sometimes disastrous remedies used to treat it.

The impulse against roughing up a fellow human would explain other examples in which people abjure killing one to save many, like euthanizing a hospital patient to harvest his organs and save five dying patients in need of transplants, or throwing someone out of a crowded lifeboat to keep it afloat.

First, the whole history of capitalism is one of balancing the entrepreneurial impulse against hazards to consumers.

James thinks that the biggest threat to Hillary's reelection is the public impulse against third terms, though Obama's uptick recently is good news.

Having a friend in trouble with the law pits powerful impulses against each other.

Her actor's instinct to play opposite impulses against each other enhances an already skillfully articulated role.

The cold war had a way of stacking contrary political impulses against each other to create a mutually reinforcing and remarkably stable political whole.

Other mechanisms she described include the projection of one's own feeling into another; directing aggressive impulses against the self (suicide being the extreme example); identification with an overpowering aggressor; and the divorce of ideas from feelings.

With Syrians already dying by the thousands from conventional weapons, Mr. Obama now confronts the most urgent foreign policy issue of his second term, one in which he must weigh humanitarian impulses against the risk to American lives.

And it would, perhaps, begin to turn the tide for public broadcasting in the 21st century, helping it to realise its potential as an ocean of freely shareable and remixable material in an era of copyright wars that pit citizens' creative, cultural impulses against the commercial entertainment sector.