Sentence examples for the main impulse from inspiring English sources

The main impulse behind Britain's annexation was to protect its sea route to India.

American involvement in the Middle East is clearly the main impulse of the hatred that has been directed at America.

I think the main impulse is to strip things to their skeleton, to rid them of their flesh and surface.

"I'm happy if we're getting the scare crowd," said Mr. Shamberg, who said the main impulse behind the film had always been to entertain.

About a half-century later, Bernard Bailyn, of Harvard, wrote "Ideological Origins of the American Revolution," setting a benchmark for those who consider ideas to have been the main impulse.

The main impulse, though, is most likely economic: producers' ever-growing realization that they need to appeal to female viewers — the decision makers when it comes to television viewing — in every kind of programming.

One of the main impulses of the avant-garde in all the arts was to incorporate indigenous and African artistic traditions into the mainstream of Latin American life.

The main impulses here were whistling harmonics, racing slides up and down the fingerboard and rubbery sounds made by digging the bow hard into the strings.

One of the main impulses for the development of theories of objects were the problems that arose in connection with intentionality.

On one of the rare occasions he agreed to talk to the press, his main impulse was to downplay the scale of his impact on the scene.

The SC is composed of the preliminary impulse (PI) and main impulse (MI) superimposed on the stepwise increase (DL) (Araki 1994).