But the move felt instinctively right at that moment.

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"I lived about two blocks away and instinctively I just drove that car right home, " he said.

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"I was so scared because I instinctively knew something wasn't right, " she said.

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"Every motorist and business in Britain instinctively knows that 'something's not right', " he said.

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By contrast, Mr Jospin has had no such helpful precursor: France's right, like its left, believes instinctively in the state's superiority and in the public sector's honourable and essential role.

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Instinctively, he kicked across it with the outside of his right foot to arch it over a back-pedalling Shay Given into the top corner.

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But what remains is the portrait of a man who, right up until the end of his life, acted instinctively for what he deemed to be the greater good.

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