Sentence examples for impulse to respond from inspiring English sources

These play to a primitive impulse to respond to immediate opportunities and threats.

Conway told me that she understood Trump's impulse to respond once he's provoked.

Our reservations are not over the impulse to respond militarily but over the long-range effectiveness of policies that rely heavily on the use of force.

The Senate panel's action capped a day of fierce debate in both houses of Congress that indicated there is a widespread impulse to respond to the deadly chemical weapons attack but deep divisions over how much latitude the president should have to do so.

SO strong was the impulse to respond to the disaster, both to help and to send a message that Wall Street was still ticking, that Elizabeth T. Davy, a lawyer, left her 6-week-old daughter, Lily, and 3-year-old son, Colin, with a baby sitter and headed in to the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell on the Monday after the attack -- even though she was on maternity leave.

Cognitive control was evaluated during a task in which subjects were asked, on occasion, to inhibit the impulse to respond in the same physical direction as the stimulus and instead respond in the opposite direction.

For this task, the child is asked to remain still with their eyes closed for 75 seconds and inhibit impulses to respond to distracting sounds.

From the "Dirty Harry" films to "Mystic River," an Eastwood movie usually revolves around a confrontation with absolute evil, and the natural impulse is to respond to it with violence.

David Edelstein writes that there "is a good case to be made" for Clint Eastwood's artistic development ["Dirty Harry Wants to Say He's Sorry (Again)," Sept. 28], but acknowledges that "from the 'Dirty Harry' films to 'Mystic River,' an Eastwood movie usually revolves around a confrontation with absolute evil, and the natural impulse is to respond to it with violence".

Those advisers reflected Mr. Obama's own conflicting impulses on how to respond to the forces unleashed by the Arab Spring: whether to side with those battling authoritarian governments or to avoid the risk of becoming enmeshed in another messy war in the Middle East.

It is to some extent inescapable, since differences in the strength of the sexual impulse and the ability to respond are based on neurophysiological differences.