Carolyn didn't have the self-protective instincts God gave a flea.

Every self-protective instinct warned her that Matt could be dangerous.

Her "actor's self-protective instinct," she said, has kept her from opening the champagne just yet.

But the fear I had felt before had always been immediate - a surge of hyped-up adrenalin and self-protective instincts.

"It was a self-protective, healthy instinct."

In a bureaucratic environment there is often a self-protective instinct towards overkill in restoration projects.

Polished and civilized as he is, Will has no self-protective instincts when it comes to the laws of the jungle, professional variety.

And afterward . . ." He recognized her hesitation-her self-protective instinct had asserted itself.

Male survivors of childhood abuse are more likely to act aggressively and angrily, while some women appear to lose their self-protective instincts.

Rude health and violent pain were too opposed, but a kind of self-protective instinct would have made Mrs Wilcox hate him.