Sentence examples for upon instinct from inspiring English sources
It was not an easy chance and the Tottenham Hotspur striker relied upon instinct to steer the half-volley towards goal.
We may assume, however, that these other living things, unlike ourselves, rely upon instinct to moderate their hunger and lust, for unregulated desire means conflict and eventual extinction.
A cynic might take such facts as meaning that people subscribe to theories of this sort more as a matter of emotional than of rational conviction; metaphysics, as Bradley remarked with surprising frankness, consists in the finding of bad reasons for what one believes upon instinct.
He recognized that learning is not something that is superimposed upon instinct, but that it itself arises out of instinct and serves, among other things, to modify and refine instinctive behavior patterns to suit present conditions.
On offense, he relied more upon instinct and improvisation at game time.
It's really the basis of all language and if you're serious about the experience of music, you learn to keep both sides of your brain open and rely upon instinct rather than premeditation.
I wish this for them because if in reality their kids fell short of the perfect pictures their moms painted of them, if they displayed a healthy dose of teenage angst, or acted upon instincts sparked by their immature teenage brains, then these women were merely putting on a show for each other and their friendship is built upon sand.
In addition to breeding chickens, cattle and other animals, Sir John wrote several influential pamphlets on animal keeping and breeding: The Art of Improving the Breeds of Domestic Animals (1809), Observations upon Hawking (1826), and Observations upon the Instinct of Animals (1836).
"The decision to come to Chicago was based upon an instinct," Oprah says on "Oprah's Lifeclass".
They were heavenly bodies without bodies.... "The shadow planets act upon us from a distance and focus our minds upon our instincts.
The ones I build certainly call upon those instincts".
