Some old guerrilla or criminal or outlaw instinct.
They must use the criminal instincts that got them kicked out of the force to save Hong Kong from a devastating terrorist attack.
Among them were, of course, killers and men of criminal instincts, yet I was playing for those others.
The criminal instinct in me had gotten the upper hand.
He had a double choice of victims, and he made it with criminal instinct.
This was exactly what Eric Veldon had been doing; but he had made no effort to obliterate the criminal instinct.
A prisoner is freed from jail after experimental brain surgery removes his criminal instincts and his memory.
But it was no criminal instinct, inherited or acquired, that turned Bijah from the paths of righteousness to the shadowy trails of crime.
Of course, the words of psychologists, sociologists and economists are contributing to the development of the criminal instincts of young people.
It is true," continued the criminologist, "that certain men have criminal instincts.