Word: instinctively
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With 20 seconds left, Bevilacqua initiated from behind the cage, on the goalie's right. He split dodged, so effectively that his defender slipped, which allowed him through. When he got within range of the crease, natural instinct took over...
Delia is a pop singer who leaves a mean husband and two baby daughters in Cayro, Ga., to run off to Los Angeles with rock star Randall Pritchard and his pretty-good band, Mud Dog. Ten years later, her homing instinct kicks in after Randall is killed in the spectacular motorcycle wreck that hooks the reader on the first page of the novel...
Perhaps no form of government," said Lord Bryce, "needs great leaders as much as democracy." For democracy is not self-executing. It takes leadership to bring democracy to life. Great democratic leaders are visionaries. They have an instinct for their nation's future, a course to steer, a port to seek. Through their capacity for persuasion, they win the consent of their people and call forth democracy's inner resources...
...jump, had to be able to impress my friends, had to carry out this ultimate exercise of will over instinct...
With oil prices in the doldrums and a 2 million-barrel glut in the supply, producers are forced to suppress their instinct to make up the revenue shortfall by pumping a few extra barrels -- production cuts are the only way to restore the good times...