But that stability gives scope to the authoritarian impulse.

At different times, Jody and Vonny give way to the impulse to leap in a car and jam down the accelerator and go, without thought of destination.

But yet he smiled, nor was he sorry that he had given way to the dictates of a kindly impulse.

Although the Spanish were bad governors and very bad administrators, to check the deleterious influence of new the dominators gave to the greater impulse two great archbishops, Carlo and Federico Borromeo.

Give a somewhat greater degree of strength to the impulse and you'll want that mouth to be impure.

It was too late to avoid recognition; and besides, as John was now actually on the way home, it hardly mattered, and he gave way to the impulse of his nature.

But his harsh tone suggested that the Taliban leadership may be moving toward a new phase in which attempts to win recognition and financial aid from abroad give way to the impulse to shut out the outside world, particularly the West.

As they approached the cave entrance, he held his neck rigid, refusing to give way to the impulse to duck.

You're going with me and you're lucky I don't wipe that smile off your face by giving way to the impulse to lay you across my knee.

He gives way to the impulse to turn sharply.