Sentence examples for impulse at work from inspiring English sources

But I understand the impulse at work here.

You've probably seen this kind of bozo impulse at work in your life.

Most breeders seem to love their cats, but there's another impulse at work, too.

There is really a puckish impulse at work in Ms. Rowling's declaration, a provocation evident in the books themselves.

There might seem to be something renegade, even anti-capitalist, about this, but there's a business impulse at work: an attempt to survive as more people replace visits to the mall with visits to retail Web sites.

The “Protestant” impulse at work in their new conception of tauhid ultimately demarcated a Muslim political majority from minority groups that were perceived to transgress the boundaries of this definition, such as the Ahmadis, Ismailis, and Bahais.

Often, however, there are darker impulses at work.

Like all nascent social movements involving myriad interest groups, there are inchoate, atavistic impulses at work.

There seem to have been two very different impulses at work in this volume.

In the war's aftermath the Latin artists were spurred by modernizing impulses at work in architecture, design and science.

Moreover, it reorients our thinking about art museums in the United States, demonstrating that there were important democratic, utilitarian, and civic impulses at work behind them.