Sentence examples for primary instinct from inspiring English sources

A motive so much in conflict with primary instinct had to represent some kind of pathology.

She had been acting on instinct and her primary instinct was her own survival.

Everyone I have spoken to in the NHS also says quite categorically that their primary instinct is patient care.

In a usual legal process, the lawyer would seek to disprove a charge, and would do so by exercising his primary instinct as a lawyer: examining the evidence.

As Palestinian journalists and activists, imbued with the spirit of the Arab Spring, become more daring and enamored with the possibilities of new media and social networking sites, the primary instinct of some in the Palestinian Authority has been to crack down.

All he is doing is obeying the primary animal instinct for survival.

Even though fanaticism and nationalism, as primary tribal instincts, will remain in the hearts of humans forever, we have come a long way from watching lions maul people to "dying for" our soccer team.

But memory, Darwin thought, would help resolve such conflicts as the organism learned to regulate its instincts, making the social instinct primary.

This carnival we call a presidential primary indulges our worst instincts, assuring us that complex problems have the simplest of solutions, if only the true villains get their due.

During the primaries, Trump indulged in his instinct for insult when, referring to Fiorina, then his rival candidate for the GOP nomination, he said: "Look at that face!

The basic symptom in autism, if one exists, has been suggested to be a primary (usually "inborn") deficiency in social instinct.