Sentence examples for impulse not to from inspiring English sources

Still, I applaud your impulse not to jump to conclusions.

But, given what he felt he'd seen, one understood his impulse not to bother with it.

Another recurring theme of Ms. Rodham's musings is the familiar late-adolescent impulse not to grow up.

But regional officials' itch to intervene may be at serious odds with local residents' impulse not to budge.

It's an ungenerous impulse not to try harder than one has to, and it pinches the spectator's heart.

My concern here is more with cultural protectionism — the impulse not to conquer the rest of the world but rather to tune it out.

"We've decided, against our initial impulses, not to try to discourage anyone who wants the CD from buying it or reviewing it," Mr. Cantor says.

The over-the-top crudeness of the films makes it easy to forget their subtly radical impulses, not to mention the sheer unlikeliness of "Harold and Kumar" as a studio franchise.

The chopping tool, Mr. MacGregor writes, "represents the moment at which we became distinctly smarter, with an impulse not just to make things but to imagine how we could make things 'better.' " Exhibit B is even better: an Acheulean, or mid-Paleolithic, hand ax that dates back about 1.3 million years, when cooking had become the norm.

And with that comes the impulse not only to establish a strict sequence in which issues will be considered but also to dole out pieces of a decision so that various parties often, different corporate functions can work on them separately.

They had seen that the most generous impulse, not subjected to the law, may engender a shameful deed.