Sentence examples for urges toward from inspiring English sources

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Toddlerhood is a time when the urges toward independent movement and exploration emerge with tremendous force.

"Goodbye First Love," like Jannicke Systad Jacobsen's recent "Turn Me On, Dammit" (from Norway), resists the usual urges toward moralism, condescension or exploitation.

She has fine support from Johnson's Mister, whom she urges toward a late and not entirely motivated redemption, and Kyle Scatliffe and Danielle Brooks as her stepson and daughter-in-law.

But surely at the top of any prohibited list of questions should be those about an applicant's stance on the war, an issue that is already generating far too many punitive urges toward those who think the "wrong" way.

The birds are converging -- millions of them, flapping along their annual routes and propelled by primal urges toward this favored resting spot at the tip of the Jersey Shore.

Repeatedly, men experience homicidal urges toward their mothers, wives and paramours; I counted at least six examples of the impulse, which seems rather a lot for a novel that's not a murder mystery (though one actual murder does occur).

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Not that the prime minister normally needed urging toward romantic escapades.

Then that local gathering was placed in the wider world and urged toward activism.

All urged toward the light..

There's a wonderful old American postcard tradition of gigantism, a mixture of (and gentle mocking of) a national, but especially Western, urge toward bravado, braggadocio, and pride when it comes to this country.

For two days now, Og had wandered aimlessly from one sparsely attended colloquium to another, trying to make sense of such weirdly punctuated panel topics as "De[con]struc(t)ing Australopithecus" and "The Urge Toward Biodiversity: Primitive (Wo Man's Genetic Differential Component".

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