Professional instinct prevailed over personal feeling.
She should have felt better, more relaxed, but instead, some insistent instinct to the contrary prevailed.
Last night his instincts and his team prevailed.
They were going too fast to stop, but instinct prevailed and Denise slammed on the brakes.
The generous instincts of the woman instantly prevailed over every personal consideration imposed on her by the position which she had assumed.
But cooler instincts prevailed and he rose reluctantly from the simple white cane chair he had chosen for the portrait.
I have faith that the higher instincts in each of us will prevail rather than fall apart.
But at the last moment, instinct prevailed.
His natural instinct to divide his thoughts carefully into two different classes before he expressed them to her prevailed.
Strange, he thought, how the instinct to survive prevails, no matter what.