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    impulse


    impulses


    1. Although his first impulse was to go to Darklow and shake the small town criminal community into information about a beautiful 19 year old girl with a foreign accent who had been forced into the local sex trade, Melinda's information somehow made him believe that he should stay on course, that all these things were related


    2. As I go through one village on the way, I spot a small garden centre and, on impulse, pull in to have a look round


    3. My first impulse was to try and move him onto his mattress, but as I tried to lever his battered body towards the mattress he simply groaned again, moved his hand to cup mine, and then wagged a finger under my nose


    4. So here she was, about to walk down the ramp and into the underpass, with the first dread impulse to run back to the lights and bars rising from the pit of her stomach


    5. When the impulse to inhale again appears do so and at


    6. When the impulse to inhale appears do so and at the same time straighten up again


    7. When the impulse to exhale appears do so and slowly return to the starting position


    8. When the impulse to exhale appears do so and at the


    9. impulse that follows a stagnant pause


    10. When the impulse to inhale appears do so while straighten

    11. When the impulse to inhale appears do so and at the same time


    12. You will want to plop your legs down on the floor in a great rush, but try as hard as you can to resist this impulse


    13. When the impulse to exhale appears do so and at the same


    14. When the impulse to exhale appears swing the ‘axe’ down


    15. without exhaling, and when the impulse to exhale appears do


    16. When the impulse to inhale appears do so and at the same


    17. When the impulse to exhale appears, do so and at the same


    18. A quantum state change is the ultimate impulse


    19. Karen turns up as arranged to collect Jake and, on impulse, I invite her in


    20. Acting upon impulse is usually not a good thing

    21. Heymon interrupted, “But how long does its nerve impulse, if that’s what these state transitions are, take to get across its body? Over a thousand years


    22. As Samuel signed for the check, Harry rose and in a calculated impulse, placed the respective contracts before each of the gentlemen who quickly accepted and signed them; Harry returned them to the document pouch nestled under his arm as calmly as if adhering to the script of a play


    23. We hit Salisbury late afternoon and, on impulse stopped to have a look at the Cathedral


    24. The irresistible impulse to fill the spaces in between the words pulls her forward


    25. On an impulse, he decided to try Latin


    26. “Exactly, that was my first impulse


    27. She was filled with anger and confusion, and knowing that keeping it all inside would drive her mad, she decided to act on her impulse and make sure that at the very least, Rosabell would be honored the right way at that ceremony


    28. I just acted on impulse without thinking too much and now… now it might be too late


    29. The dictionary refers to a calling as a strong impulse or inclination to do a certain thing, follow a certain profession, or course of action


    30. As much as she wanted to resist the urge, impulse got the DRAFTChapter 17 421

    31. So she had acted on impulse and was now wracked with remorse


    32. Instead of an anesthetizing drug, impulse waves from the headband reduced his brainwave activity in a more gradual way


    33. It was an impulse


    34. It is easy to identify in the tides and currents of history times when lack of courage and resolve to confront a threat in its initial impulse ended up costing catastrophically more in its final unraveling


    35. Then; on impulse more than anything else, he pointed the light up


    36. Putting my coat on the rack, I resisted the impulse to simply drop it over my luggage


    37. On impulse Savannah stabbed the bell-push with her thumb, already regretting her action before she’d completed it


    38. On an impulse, she turned off the torch and stood looking up at the sky


    39. On an impulse, I stood up in the stirrups,


    40. On an impulse, I asked a few questions about the

    41. On impulse I slid off my stool


    42. More S-turns, dropping a wing and sliding lower as if on impulse


    43. What a relief! It was a mad impulse to bring her, and it was only once they were a few light years from home, when he wondered if he was letting himself in for a big ordeal


    44. On an impulse, Colling told her that they had


    45. On an instinctive impulse, he reached over his shoulder and pulled out an arrow, and notched it to the string in cautious silence


    46. How can I explain the impulse to hop on a train and visit my brother? Or the eerie calm in Eric’s voice as he questioned me? Or the reason that I exploded and hit Tobias to begin with?


    47. The impulse to share anything is a new one, the impulse to hide as natural as breathing


    48. Impulse had cooled, especially since Dan had bruised her self-respect


    49. Jason would follow the socialist impulse of modern Europe, as well as her attempt at casting off national identities by creating an economic federation


    50. As with one impulse, they swung around and made for Ingleside--but not across Rainbow Valley













































    1. "Yeah, but do you think I am forcing her dead body to twitch using electrical impulses? Do you think if you cut me open you would find some crystal implanted in Tdesi's head?"


    2. "The state changes are more like impulses, that's what I am trying to convey with this


    3. "At the very basic level,"Ava continued, "impulses travel these circuits in a steady state, the pulses circle their group of neurons and the pseudo-particle that emulates does not undergo a state change


    4. impulses of the heart, was first put to practical use


    5. “Acolyte Tometahin has to control his thoughts so well that his nerve impulses encode my signals into Thom’s condensates


    6. It all had to do with controlling nerve impulses thru the bodies closest to Gordon’s Lamp


    7. She tried to give him a long science lesson about how thought was nerve impulses and by using enough of their electric crystals the Yingolian’s could make an artificial mind that lived inside the silicon


    8. “Human souls using electric currents in silicon crystals to think with instead of nerve impulses among neurons,” Ava explained


    9. To use this equipment it was best to modify one’s self to have a nerve bundle growing in the center of each hair, so that impulses could be picked up as chemical signals and synapsed to the photonic amplifiers in the helmet and transmitted over the suntower thru a data-capacity channel


    10. Unwanted ideas, thoughts or impulses plague the mind, such as fears

    11. "But their back yard intersects this dimension in the form of electric impulses in silicon


    12. Adjectives, conjunctions, and prepositions: some sort Of bionomic central force in the monkey seemed to Express itself through the de-centered processes of Rolling grammatical progression and spreading activation That converged around the impulses flowing between The brain-machine interface, with the monkey’s intentions Refined by the computers rationalizing


    13. At this very point millions of impulses are flowing through your nervous system turning into all the actions you perform


    14. The Com-link device would be used to monitor Jimmy’s TIAR experience, transferring his subconscious neural impulses into audiovisual


    15. impulses which starts by activating autonomic functions


    16. Chuckles hissed softly, the synapses in its brains firing electrical impulses faster and faster until the rage had raised a fur ridge along its spine


    17. When principles of non-violence are either self-contained or practiced unconditionally under circumstances (otherwise) calling for a measured response, (sound) judgment and common sense appealing to the requirements of a peaceful, well-ordered society that every citizen (otherwise) owes an obligation, and whose conspicuous merits, perhaps laudable in some instances, however questionable at other times, and where (such) natural impulses are routinely rejected, even more remarkably when Property and Person and at times the Nation, are at risk by (anti-social) individuals determined to provoke harm; weighs in the balance, and where (institutional) recourse is problematical or uncertain, an (individual) is required, inasmuch as it lies within that individual‘s capacity to do so, to discourage such annoyances as they may present themselves to that individual as well as that individual‘s family and friends, however contrary to that individual‘s ―nature,‖ lest that individual‘s misplaced pacifism further encourage mischief makers and bullies alike, by providing license to habitually upset the harmony and safety of private and public concerns as it (otherwise) suits their primitive whims


    18. Secularists and Atheists alike have long expunged Evil (in its purest sense) from its lexicon as a word commonly thought to convey a religious (read: superstitious) connotation consistent with irrational impulses or ideas rather than ―considered reasoning


    19. The challenges confronting any free society lie in the unshakable confidence invested in its citizens as free-thinking individuals capable of making the right choices and exercising proper judgment rather than perceived as sophisticated machines guided by neural impulses connected to some highly developed nerve center


    20. The former, unless given to critical reflection, is (oftentimes) spontaneous; giving rise to whatever pops into one‘s head; the latter generally follows creative impulses and subsequent effects that require additional time to develop

    21. impulses (or motives) may be understood in terms of that individual‘s essential designs or a product of (social) conditioning that in some manner informs that individual of the potential consequences (or effects) of his or her response


    22. It all begins with conditioning and a child‘s (natural) impulses


    23. For these reasons many athletes are given free passes to showcase their (baser) impulses, (reflecting their own true nature, perhaps,) by flaunting such boorish attitudes that seeks to provide ―entertainment‖ value to the lowest elements of our society while enthusiastically dancing to the beat of their own drums without regard to proper style and form


    24. His attention to pleasing Elizabeth slowed his own impulses, so that he felt in control when her movements became more spasmodic, and she began to moan and cry out, first softly, then with more intensity, until her pelvis thrust wildly upwards and he sensed she had had an orgasm


    25. The computer controller in the metaphor has its variety of regimes programmed into it, but how does the brain acquire its various regimes? Experience would be the first and most logical answer, but desire is an eminently older control mechanism, and other less ancient sources have come into existence, creating cooperative control and inhibitory impulses


    26. The eye receives light frequency input that is reflected off structures within this environment and converts this into electrochemical impulses, which it sends to the brain


    27. The latter is a combination of common sense experiences and natural intuitive impulses


    28. appetites are resisted by the temperate understanding, and bent back again, and all the impulses of the body are reined in by


    29. Chemical messages and small impulses of electricity are moving all around his brain


    30. instead of acting on any of those impulses, I called a cab

    31. result of the sensitivity of the mind to impulses sent to it through meditation, it is highly recommended that your visualization


    32. connection I have to arms and legs are the electromagnetic impulses that migrate through


    33. 35 For the affections of our appetites are resisted by the temperate understanding and bent back again and all the impulses of the body are reined in by reasoning


    34. She’s telling me my implant was damaged by the false impulses


    35. Nuke and a few of his staff had gone to save Candace, who was having suicidal impulses that made no sense to her


    36. She complained again of depression and suicidal impulses she found hard to resist, blaming them on the influence of dark spirits


    37. This device sends electrical impulses to


    38. who – it was hoped – could override their instinctual impulses


    39. ourselves to the impulses of the ocean, and everyone could feel


    40. This device sends electrical impulses to nerves under the skin at the base of the head at the back of the neck

    41. Again, that’s just another set of electrical impulses travelling up, this time, from your fingertips


    42. Electrical impulses zapping along to the brain


    43. The worst guilt trip arrived when they declared that the most natural and strongest of human impulses, sex, is a sin unless it is to make babies


    44. • Nerve stimulation – The nerves that supply the back can be supplied with electrical impulses to relieve pain


    45. Chemical changes created trigger nerve impulses, controlled explosions of activity down protein rods and cones, burrowing rapidly into the brain


    46. The prefrontal cortex is involved in delaying gratification and impulse control and moderates the impulses from the limbic system


    47. " In reaching this conclusion in regard to the appetite of the physical nature as expressed in hunger for food, the Son of Man made his final declaration concerning all other urges of the flesh and the natural impulses of human nature


    48. It has been proven that men with great sexual impulses have a broader view of the world than the ordinary men


    49. " Jesus did not want simply to produce a religious man, a mortal wholly occupied with religious feelings and actuated only by spiritual impulses


    50. Even as the maternal memory triggered his filial impulses, he was impelled to reach his father forthwith











































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    Synonyms for "impulse"

    impetus impulse impulsion momentum nerve impulse nervous impulse neural impulse pulsation pulse pulsing caprice whim urge desire motivation proclivity inclination bent stimulus shock surge thrust push pressure flash fancy vagary thought

    "impulse" definitions

    an instinctive motive


    a sudden desire


    the electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiber


    (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients)


    the act of applying force suddenly


    an impelling force or strength