• Bergman wants to portray the powerful, often destructive desires and impulses lying beneath placid social exteriors.
• I had a sudden impulse to tell the woman pouring the wine that I loved her.
• Driven by a mad impulse, I strolled up to the road in front of the cab, and stood before it.

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• Even so, in this process the educated must provide the initial impulse; they must make the masses conscious of themselves and of their destiny.
• The individual provides the impulse which sets the process of litigation in motion, but the institution - the law - defines the terms.
• One of the main impulses for devolution in the 1980s and 1990s was the need to defend the social democratic settlement in Scotland and Wales from the neo-liberal attack.

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• Implanted osteogenic stimulators deliver electrical impulses directly to the site where bone regrowth needs to occur.
• Unlike its electrical predecessor, an optical switch does not convert the signal to an electrical impulse before directing it.
• Using this device he was able to show that the currents traveling through nerves and muscles were in the form of small, brief electrical impulses that we now call action potentials.

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• This will open the door for the realization that man exists within a huge field of gravitational and magnetic impulses.
• The process of minimizing an impact force can be approached from the definition of the impulse of force.
• This hypothesis has been around for decades and the study of it has failed to generate enough positive data to lead us to believe that sound waves instead of ion flux is how impulses are generated.