Examples of instinct

• Moreover, proposals that were technically elegant could run up against the instincts of the politicians.

• Our instincts about internal compromise suggest another political ideal standing beside justice and fairness.

• By experience and by instinct, people understood what they could not write about.

• There are simply too many constituencies, too many prejudices and too many conflicting instincts to satisfy.

• With self-consciousness comes a demand for philosophical justification of the state-building process, but that process has been going on in obedience to elemental instinct.

• Individuals in crowds, it was argued, lost their reason and yielded to instinct.

• Their minds and wills atrophied, and they became solely creatures of sensual instinct.

• Various social and institutional arrangements were put into place or expanded to deal with satisfying the gregarious instinct.