And maybe another reason he didn't want her in a fight was because he wasn't sure which way her instincts would impel her to jump.

In one way it would be nothing to grieve over, but he is my father after all, and the filial instinct impels me to his assistance against my better judgment.

For Davidson, because we contain the divine within us, our unfettered natural instincts would impel us to act morally.

I hope that Dr McKeith's instincts, as a fellow-scientist, will impel her to accept this challenge.

Urgency and instinct impelled Linden into motion.

His instinct for self-preservation impelled him to give guarantees as to future conduct.

Every instinct of his nature would have impelled him to dash wildly away, had there not suddenly and for the first time arisen in him another and counter instinct.

Then as now a strong instinct for survival impelled people forward.

The nonconformist instincts that used to drive people from the suburban subdivisions into the bohemian city now impel them to remake the suburbs so they feel more quirkily urban.

We were now all rising and moving out into the hall, as though a common instinct of coming trouble impelled us.