Sentences with phrase «by kneejerk»

Nick Clegg, speaking at the pre-manifesto launch, told Politics.co.uk he had been a longstanding advocate that drugs policy in Britain has been «blighted by kneejerk prejudice».

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The dollar initially plunged by a similar amount, though it also recouped some of its kneejerk losses to trade 15 per cent lower at 0.8884 francs.

My problem is the kneejerk hatred of American power which won two world wars and the cold war and the fact that we yes WE protected Europe for years and still without our military presence many of the countries of Europe (who by the way will not arm and participate) would be overrun first by the USSR and later by Islamofascists.

It's just kneejerk and short - sighted to dismiss other recent expensive signings by us.

Miliband, whose schoolboy persona is that of the insufferable swot who likes to make the teacher uncomfortable by pointing out her spelling mistakes, had a kneejerk response ready to go.

Elected houses have to pander to the public, the public are generally stupid; in return for a vote politicians set aside all petty considerations (like the law, morality, basic human decency and common sense) and pass stupid, kneejerk, dangerous laws (the only people to disagree with Her Majesty's government passing dangerous laws in the name of anti-terrorism were a bunch of out - of - touch 90 - year - old judges, who have been replaced by a tame political supreme court).

I didn't understand the kneejerk TFA antipathy by Vasquez Heilig, a California education professor, and Brewer, a TFA alum who left K - 12 teaching after two years.

Michael Kozlowski, you sir are doing a great disservice by helping to propagate ridiculous misinformation and an even more ridiculous kneejerk reaction.

My kneejerk reaction is to say Nintendo's original version is, by default, definitive, but I wouldn't blame you at all if you chose the PC version.