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In a pure survival-oriented sense, you want to dominate and retaliate to protect yourself and prevent further exploitation.

Judith Orloff MD: 4 Strategies To Cope With Anger In A Healthy Way Judith Orloff MD 2011

The survival-oriented plot involves Mackenzie's desire to have Zarinska, an Indian maiden, for his wife.

“The Kipling of the Klondike”: Naturalism in London's Early Fiction 2010

In a pure survival-oriented sense, you want to dominate and retaliate to protect yourself and prevent further exploitation.

Judith Orloff MD: 4 Strategies To Cope With Anger In A Healthy Way Judith Orloff MD 2011

In a pure survival-oriented sense, you want to dominate and retaliate to protect yourself and prevent further exploitation.

Judith Orloff MD: 4 Strategies To Cope With Anger In A Healthy Way Judith Orloff MD 2011

Her position: disadvantaged minorities had more survival-oriented issues in mind.

SF and Immigration Thoughts Steven Barnes 2010

Her position: disadvantaged minorities had more survival-oriented issues in mind.

Archive 2010-04-01 Steven Barnes 2010

As my wife likes to put it, we battled like dinosaurs, the most primal and survival-oriented parts of our brains activated and firing like Gatling Guns.

Peter Schwartz: Low-Down, Dirt-Poor, Hands-to-Heaven College Application Parental Blues 2009

For a creature built to live cooperatively in a hive structure, this is obviously not a survival-oriented behavior.

Bees again: finally this problem is beginning to get onto the general radar… | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit" 2007

This kind of remote, empathic knowing is the sort of ability that a survival-oriented organism might develop, because this ability favors the physical survival of the person in need, and therefore procreation.

Dr. Larry Dossey: I Feel Your Pain: Fact or Fiction 2009

If only because the minimization of unexcitement is a stark contrast to the side of our existence that deals with the more survival-oriented feeling states.

On Expertise 2008