Sentences with phrase «do knee jerk»

@Andrew AFC You should know by now that I don't do knee jerk or negative.

Not exact matches

Christopher Pissarides, a professor of economics at the London School of Economics, said Trump was having a «knee - jerk reaction» to certain groups of Americans who did not benefit from the past several decades of open trade.

He doesn't appear to have any deliberate goals with his rhetorical mood swings; rather, they are knee - jerk responses to particular situations and audiences.

Now I realize that I've written recently about the scourge of stupid and knee - jerk sharing, but in these kinds of specific instances, smart sharing gets the job done right.

Don't have a knee - jerk reaction and quickly change your plan.

He said such knee - jerk refusals are only a viable strategy if you truly believe Trump can not cancel NAFTA — an assessment Harper does not share.

My uneducated, knee - jerk reaction is that American consumers seemed to do well for decades before China joined the international trade order.

Other than perhaps a short - term, knee - jerk reaction, the winner of each presidential election typically has much less to do with the future direction of the stock market than one may wish to believe.

The silver price could experience a knee - jerk decline if the stock market crashes similar to its fall in October 2008 (and if silver does decline, it'll be temporary just like it was in 2008).

What the knee - jerk investors do is artificially drive the share price higher until the market comes to its senses and the stock crashes to earth.

But Pollard doesn't see much long - term planning going on, but rather a «knee - jerk reaction» in the industry «because of how fast the bottom's been pulled out from underneath them.»

So you do see the knee - jerk reaction, which is a ballistic missile is fired over the Sea of Japan, over Hokkaido, Japanese yen rallies.

Now, knee - jerk FED supporters (insert name here) will maintain that is what Bernanke did in presenting QE1, QE2 and QE3 — but he certainly had the support of a democrat - controlled HOUSE and SENATE in 2010.

Africans do not have the reflexive, knee - jerk negative response to words like abstinence and fidelity, such as we find among Western AIDS activists.

I can see how the knee jerk reaction is to «prevent people from doing X.», but taking away peoples freedom to live their lives they way they want isn't the answer.

Neither, however does a knee - jerk belief that everything is due to the individual, that nothing is shaped by outside forces and the structure of civilization.

Because my husband doesn't speak your politically correct language and instead responds in a knee jerk reaction to what he sees here, you immediately circle around and start wagging your fingers as you did me.

Part of why I think Jesus talks so explicitly about loving our enemies and turning the other cheek is because it isn't our knee - jerk reaction; it doesn't necessarily come naturally to us.

What do we have to offer in their stead — beyond the knee - jerk glorification or condemnation of technology?

Now, before some of you exhibit the republican knee - jerk effect (and in all fairness the dems have their own version), exclaiming how I blow the things out of proportion, or that equating economic sanctions with abortion is not only wrong, but evil, or how easy it is to just play the race card, remember this: You do not serve a political party, but God.

And our knee jerk reaction is that freedom does not tend to lend itself to man reaching higher but lower.

That doesn't make the article religious in origin though, and this vitriolic response is a bit too knee jerk.

This is what Bill Nye is going on about: we have a nation full of knee - jerk reactionaries quick to dismiss what they don't even posess a high - school level understanding of, simply because it doesn't fit perfectly with the mindlessly repeated dogma they've been indoctrinated with since birth.

You obviously didn't read the article and the word «Jesus» just set you off on a knee jerk anti-Christian rant

Frankly, this blog strikes me as one of those deals where the former pastor figures out that all the other religious people are wrong, and he doesn't want to be one of those «fundie douchebags» (to quote one of your fans), and so he starts spewing cynical knee - jerk vitriol against anything that smacks of conservativism or evangelicalism or whatever.

I don't believe we can scare people into loving God or that an uninformed, frantic, fearful knee - jerk prayer to avoid damnation is what this is all about.

But hopefully if the Republicans do hold majority in the house and senate, maybe they won't be so knee - jerk resistant to Obama's ideas.

«We're doing close to $ 15 billion worth of trade with the Arab region and this is a very important area of our economy and trade obviously contributes to prosperity so it's important for us to view these issues objectively and calmly and not to resort to knee jerk reactions and biased comments.»

In summary, don't have a knee jerk reaction to the label «heavy metals.»

My knee - jerk reaction was um no, it's too cold, but she's so dedicated to walking even when the temps are below zero, that I agreed if for no other reason than I didn't want to be a wimp.

I got ta say, you did fantastic work raising a complete ponce whose face causes a knee - jerk negative reaction from any grown adult.

What effect did this truly have besides this ACL breaking Knee Jerk reaction of a comment section

I don't know the answers — I'm just giving observations — and when you analyse things — it really isn't a «knee jerk reaction»..

I didn't like this article, fans have the right to protest and as much as it infuriates me to see knee jerk reactions against the manager, it also bugs me to see mindless support for the manager.

When certain players don't feature in a match there is always a convenient knee - jerk reaction contending that X or Y would have been game - changers etc..

Of course they do, but you get nowhere in this game from making knee - jerk decisions.

Cooley went on to state that, «key numbers do factor into our oddsmaking because the public tends to react to them in a more knee - jerk fashion.»

Recognising some good doesn't mean that it is good enough, to me though it would show an educated intelligent individual who isn't as prone to knee jerk reactions.

I do not doubt there is sometimes embellishment on high stick things, but do no forget sometimes it's simply a knee jerk reaction to seeing a stick coming at you — you flinch — even if it misses you.

Before you give me knee jerk reaction, read my contents and do not only NOTICE their english names.

Before I react like the jerk of the proverbial knee, I do not want Arsene Wenger to be fired as I have a lot of respect and admiration for what he has done for the club as he is, and always will be, a legend.

I don't think either reaction is wrong, your knee jerk attitude is the problem!

I don't understand this knee - jerk reaction from some fans.

If he has a poor playoff performance people, not myself, my knee - jerk and call him a bust, similar to what they are doing to Sheary, for getting he his a young player who will have some ups and downs and slumps adjusting to the league.

@strontium Since I always try to default to F1 and FIA people being pretty smart and pretty professional, once you remove all the negative armchair fan rhetoric that is, I would suggest that the reason the fins are just reduced and the t bars are gone but for a much smaller lower gearbox wing according to Lowe, is that going by what Brawn has talked about they don't want to make knee - jerk decisions that will only continue to help the bigger teams who have the resources to adapt more quickly, and harm the lesser teams that can not.

I always have the knee - jerk reaction to get defensive when it's brought up, like I'm worried the questioner will think I didn't try hard enough or didn't have the right information.

I find I have to remind myself to do it because my knee jerk reaciton is to yell too much.

I have a knee - jerk reaction against this kind of boy / girl declared difference, but in DS's case, it did seem to be true: he wanted to practice walking for months, and not much else was interesting.

A knee - jerk response («Don't be such a brat!»)

I talked about how we don't want to overuse «no» in my last post because I don't want it to become a knee - jerk response when I'm feeling frustrated or angry.