"impulse" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Q. So if the egalitarian impulse is strong within us, can we assume that institutions like slavery were unnatural blips in human history?
- Not, he hastens to add, that the egalitarian impulse is wholly pernicious; American democracy was founded on a dialectic between elitism and egalitarianism.
- Gundersen regretted his egalitarian impulse the moment he stepped down.
- His critique of President Clinton's ill-fated plan for universal health insurance, which embodied, he writes, an "egalitarian impulse," is skillful: "Congress was told all or nothing, and nothing was the response."
- When do a leader's egalitarian impulses devolve into spinelessness and a need to pander to the herd?
- In an egalitarian impulse that seems intrinsic to Hindu heterogeneity, the idea that the gods should be accessible without priestly mediation had been gaining strength for some time.
- But the situation is bursting with the contradictions and tensions that come with trying to reconcile modern egalitarian impulses with fidelity to ancient religious texts.
- Voltaire, Diderot and Montesquieu all wrote about the missions, praising the egalitarian impulse behind them.
- The permit-but-discourage formula on abortion offers the chance to test our national soul by appealing to its basic egalitarian impulse.
- Though the new country was to be a daring trial in self-government, it was expected to be guided less by egalitarian impulses than by the aristocratic beliefs of well-bred gentlemen.
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