Usage examples of "impulso" in Spanish with translation to English

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Sólo un intelecto masculino nublado por el impulso sexual podría llamar al sexo atrofiado, de hombros estrechos, caderas anchas, y cortas piernas, el sexo débil. Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex.
Tengo un impulso de comprar algo. I have an urge to buy something.
Era difícil resistir el impulso de retorcerle el cuello a Tom. It was hard to resist the impulse to wring Tom's neck.
No pude resistir el impulso de aplaudir. I couldn't resist the urge to applaud.
Tom sintió el impulso de salir corriendo. Tom felt the urge to run away.
Los hermanos Wright lograron hacer volar un aeroplano impulsado por un motor. The Wright brothers succeeded in flying an airplane driven by an engine.
Es la inteligencia del hombre la que tan a menudo lo hace comportarse más ridículamente que las bestias. ... El hombre es impulsado a inventar teorías que den cuenta de lo que sucede en el mundo. Desafortunadamente, en la mayoría de los casos, él no es lo suficientemente inteligente para encontrar las explicaciones correctas. It is man's intelligence that makes him so often behave more stupidly than the beasts. ... Man is impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations.
Se lo pregunto a usted, el que impulsó esta iniciativa. I'm asking you, who promoted this initiative.
Episodios previos a extinciones masivas fueron provocados por desastres naturales, tales como los asteroides, pero esta es impulsada por el ser humano. Previous episodes of mass extinctions were driven by natural disasters such as asteroids, but this one is driven by humans.
La Segunda Ley de Newton enuncia: "La fuerza es igual a el cambio en el impulso por el cambio en el tiempo. Para una masa constante, la fuerza equivale a la masa por la aceleración." Newton's Second Law says: "Force is equal to the change in momentum per change in time. For a constant mass, force equals mass times acceleration".
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