Sentence examples for less impulse from inspiring English sources

Forty per cent of food ending up in landfill or the bin is unacceptable and completely avoidable: planning ahead with what is in your fridge would lead to far less impulse buying.

It's Criminology 101 that many crimes are committed under the influence of drugs and alcohol, and that people who assault, rape, and murder show less impulse control in other aspects of their lives as well.

If you've not met the Joker's volatile on/off girlfriend – first introduced on Batman: The Animated Series in 1992 before transitioning to comics – Harley Quinn is like Miranda Richardson's Queenie from Blackadder II but with a giant hammer and less impulse control.

Compared with a SDBR, the proposed OCV-PD could make DC-based DFIGs less influenced by overcurrent faults in the all power situations with less impulse currents; Moreover, it has overvoltage protective ability that SDBR does not possess.

Although Henry of Ghent organizes his treatise on the good in Summa 41.1 in accordance with Aquinas' discussion of the good in De ver. 21.1, the essentialist interpretation of the concept of being that he established had only limited possibilities, and even less impulse, to account for the fundamental difference between the transcendental good and moral perfections.

While some children are old souls, very gentle and calm, there are other kids who might have less impulse control.

Callers may be motivated by a guilty conscience, a desire for reward money, a keen sense of justice or some less classifiable impulse.

Meanwhile, in the San Francisco Bay Area, a less coherent impulse, termed Funk art, flourished in riposte to the slick styles of the L.A. movements Light and Space and Finish Fetish, in favor at the time.

In Florida, Greta tries to reignite its spark, but Ellen's single status has set her off-­kilter, making her envious, manipulative and man-mad: there's no friendship in her, much less any impulse toward guidance.

Pamuk has a flattering faith in his readers' intelligence, relying on us to figure out what qualities and quirks have been passed down through the generations of men in the family, not just the obvious (alcoholism) but the less common impulse to amass, record and find answers in encyclopedic compilations of knowledge.

A close read of those recent acquisitions shows how they're getting there or, for some less promising impulse buys, how they're not.