Sentence examples for useful instincts from inspiring English sources

"I love the history of my field," de Waal writes in his book's prologue, but, for most of the twentieth century, "the two dominant schools of thought viewed animals as either stimulus-response machines or robots endowed with useful instincts".

Essex Man was useful shorthand for why Thatcherism was successful, thought Heffer: "The barrow boy who uses instinct and energy rather than contacts and education.

The Liberal Democrats are still a useful check on his instincts: there is unlikely to be any revival of his pro-marriage tax policies, for example.

So even though our instincts can be useful guides, it's also important to not take our feelings too seriously.

Much of that can be credited to Johnson's superb shot-contesting instincts and ever-useful size, both of which could be missed in Atlanta this season.

If you ask yourself honestly, you will probably have at least some instinct to keep useful nuggets of information to yourself.

EXTRAPOLATING from the adage "two heads are better than one", a group of economists at the University of Iowa has learned how to turn the instincts of individuals into useful predictions of the future.

Our instincts tell us to ignore it.

That burying instinct could soon prove useful.

For a time, Bannon was useful to him because he had the instincts of a political brawler and the ability to convert rabble-rousing rhetoric into something that could be presented to the gullible as a semi-coherent political philosophy.

Millennials, myself included, are often quick to forget the value of more traditional skills in the workplace, skills which are just as useful as our well-honed career survival instincts.