The internet was supposed to be the great leveller, breaking the monopoly of elites on information and creating a new democratic impulse.

Careless expressions of the democratic impulse have been way too strong.

Unable to dismiss them as leftwing extremists, however, he has offered grudging respect for their democratic impulses.

But that's as far as their democratic impulses go.

These democratic impulses led to a marked conservatism in style, such that the artistic leadership of the years 1900-1916 all but disappeared.

Because, after the initial shock, my immediate impulse was to want to know more.

The immediate impulse — to grab my phone and photograph it — was foiled by an empty pocket.

They were not pushed by the immediate impulses and pressures of the moment.

Your initial impulse will be to overcome difficulties as swiftly as possible.

So, forgive my initial impulse.

Projectiles produce an initial impulse from the muzzle blast with a shock wave traveling radially outward perpendicular to the path of the supersonic projectile.

The initial impulse was to be heard above the noise of lively rent parties.

As it travels outward, this initial impulse forces the wire out of its resting position all along its length.

And ordering his body to do something that every natural impulse in his brain would have tried to override and reject.

Rather than striving to control the natural impulse to plunder the watery commons, governments have often encouraged it by heavily subsidizing the fishing industry.

It's a collective shrug of the shoulders, a self-protective act that's an entirely natural impulse.

That was the hardest thing about this part, having to shut down my natural impulses and instincts.

It's as though his therapy and his natural impulses are permanently at odds.

The religious impulse had been strong in him from the beginning.

He points out that the religious impulse has changed, 'metabolised' in a sense, over the years but has always been there.

Following the religious impulse means attempting to find meaning - not just meaning in life, but the meaning of life as a whole - through a relationship to 'something transcendent'.

Even mathematics had a religious impulse behind its teachings.

Yet he could perceive religious impulses in imaginative literature that did not have patent religious designs.

A first glance at the results suggested that statins had almost no effect on their violent impulses.

He says that by the time he was a young man he could no longer control his violent impulses.

Nevertheless, there have always been occasions when students turned violent impulses upon themselves.

What happens when deep resentment meets violent impulses and an overwhelming desire for fame in the same person?

Yet the violent impulses have gone too far.