innate need

collocation in English

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innate
adjective
uk
/ɪˈneɪt/us
/ɪˈneɪt/
An innate quality or ability is one that you were born with, not one you ...
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need
noun
uk
/niːd/us
/niːd/
the state of having to have something that you do not have, especially something that you must have so that you can have a ...
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(Definition ofinnateandneedfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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That is because nature has endowed us with theinnateneedto survive, and to survive in nature one frequently has to be extremely cruel.
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At its heart, is the insight that human beings are highly social animals, and have aninnateneedto communicate and interact.
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Dogs in particular have aninnateneedto please their pack leader, and will go to almost any lengths to achieve this.
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This term is defined as humansinnateneedto affiliate with other life such as plants and animals.
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This requirement fulfillment includes theinnateneedand intrinsic urge that happens to every human.
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It also symbolises aninnateneedand tendency of every human to do a heroic deed and a desire to be remembered for it for times to come.
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Moreover, the claim that human syntactic ability is innate needs to take into account the fact that the genetic distinctions between humans and chimpanzees are slight.
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Organisms, on the other hand, have purposes with internal origins; they have purposes that originate in their innate needs.
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But those realities must include the satisfaction of people's innate needs.
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Unless a new social contract satisfies these three innate needs, it will not stick.
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I suggest three dominant innate needs in all of us that must be accommodated in any effective social contract, needs that are denied in our present arrangements.
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The grounds are innate needs.
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Innate needs, like that for caloric intake, are genetically determined and therefore shared (with the usual genetic variance) among all humans.
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