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They have cognitive impairments like poor judgment and poor impulse control, problems that make criminal justice a revolving door.
In fact, a child living with poverty is likely to perform worse on tests of language and impulse control before they even turn two.
And it's hard ... The previous speaker has, I think, really painted a very good background as to the impulse behind my work and what drives me, and my sense of loss, and trying to find the answer to the big questions.
John Hockenberry: Why is the creation, the impulse to create Second Life, not a utopian impulse?
When you've suffered a loss or a trauma, the impulse can be to guard your heart.
It's an impulse that we all have.
A casual impulse, a fancy, never thought of until now, hardly thought of even now ... No, more than impulse or fancy, the girl knows what she's doing, the girl means something, the girl means to mean, because it occurs to her in that instant, that beautiful or not, bright yes or no, she's not who she is, she's not the person she is, and the reason, she suddenly knows, is that there's been so much premeditation where she is, so much plotting and planning, there's hardly a person where she is, or if there is, it's not her, or not wholly her, it's a self inhabited, lived in by her, and seemingly even as she thinks it she knows what's been missing: grace, not premeditation but grace, a kind of being in the world spontaneously, with grace.
One way is with something called a TENS unit, which you can wear under your clothes and it sends an electrical impulse to the nerves and muscles and no one really knows how it works, but we think it might be the gate theory of pain, which is counterirritation.
Simply put, when the impulse is to change the world, the academy is more likely to engender a learned helplessness than to create a sense of empowerment.
That means your memory, your judgment, your impulse control deteriorate, and the brain areas for anger and anxiety are activated.
Now, marketing has done a very, very good job of creating opportunities for impulse buying.
Yet we've never created the opportunity for impulse saving.
But what does voluntary mean in a community where, when a girl gets raped, her father's first impulse, rather often, is to murder her out of shame?
When these neurons interact, the chemical reaction emits an electrical impulse, which can be measured.
And every emotional impulse in me says, "I can't."
Your brain will attempt to shut-down as part of a primal impulse of self-preservation.
And without spoiling the big, nonsensical twist ending, just take my word for it: the fascinating incompetence of the first scenes gives way to a deep cathode-tube-smashing impulse.
The impulse is to prop up sterling reputations and careers and relationships in this most civilized corner of the world.
This was an impulse pick up for me from the local video store.
Your impulse is to rush home and play a recording again to confirm that Wagner got it right, Syberberg got it wrong.
As a fan of actors such as William Shatner (Impulse, 1974) and Ron Liebmann (Up The Academy, 1981)I never thought an actor could capture the "intensity" like Shatner and Liebmann in those roles, until I saw Boothe as Jim Jones!
I bought this game on an impulse buy from walmart.
What's more, it explores the odd impulse of suicide in a very frank way, not pulling any punches in what it shows, yet not dwelling and over-sensationalising the subject matter.
Impulse), Arthur Curry (Aquaman) and Victor Stone (Cyborg) to investigate the Project 33.1.
I checked this out as an impulse when browsing through the movie store and couldn't have been any more pleasantly surprised!
She also said that Robert Blake portrayed a person with anger and impulse control who had a conscience but couldn't control himself superbly.
It's a childish impulse at heart, but great when you're deconstructing philosophies.
In satirical cases, the childish impulse is justified by the purpose of the deconstruction.
It was an impulse thing I know.
From the acting on impulse as some have said to the manipulating of the office of the president, to propel a sideways political agenda, to racial-profiling, finding, weeding out those who wish to kill Americans and dance and party all night afterward, I say, this was interesting.
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