Sentences with phrase «in knee jerk»

In light of the WHSmith / Kobo incident (resulting in the knee jerk removal of thousands of self published titles, Orna Ross speaks out for indie authors on BBC Radio 4 ′ s PM Programme, discussing how and when self - publishing works.

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.

Not exact matches

If you haven't picked it up yet, it's well worth a read in full and is packed with examples of how our knee - jerk decision - making machinery can lead us astray, as well as techniques to short - circuit bias.

The popular mood in Russia appears to be different from the government's knee - jerk reaction, however.

He adds that investors» knee - jerk reactions to negative news — such as a recent pesticide contamination scare — are signs of «growing pains» in the new industry.

It's usually a knee - jerk reaction to some uncomfortable modern issue or in defense of one of the many historical myths children in the mainland are taught as unshakeable facts about the world.

Argentina, with its deep devaluation of the peso, China hiding its economic intentions, and Turkey with its knee - jerk movement in interest rates are examples of how governments have perhaps acted «selfishly.»

«Consumers act in sort of a knee - jerk way,» says Helby.

Making it more difficult is that WikiLeaks seems to be misrepresenting the content of the dumps in its widely - viewed announcements, spurring knee - jerk and potentially misleading news coverage, security experts who evaluated the contents of the dump previously told Business Insider.

Secretary Clinton may try to re-negotiate environmental and labour issues in the treaty, but let's not typify a knee jerk reaction since she has publicly committed to find common ground and purpose to boost the US economy and promote free trade with like - minded partners.

While the market could have a knee - jerk rally on an indication of forthcoming stimulus, we think this would likely be short - lived and could end in the red.

Small businesses can thrive in today's challenging economy, but not if they adopt the knee - jerk responses of cutting costs, lowering prices, and hanging on until times get better.

My suggestion is not to make knee - jerk assumptions that the top person in the org chart will make the final decision.

Unfortunately, the result of the knee jerk internet anger has resulted in airline's staff being abused online.

Of course, managing to wring the most value from your unhappy customers requires you to master the knee jerk defensiveness in the face of criticism that nearly all of us suffer from and actually listen to what this angry or upset person is telling you.

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.

In the corporate world, I often see a knee - jerk reaction to stakeholder activism; a rush to mount a defence with lawyers or bankers.

While investors» immediate reaction to the court ruling was of the unsurprising knee - jerk variety, reality started to set in over the last few days and solar stocks took a nosedive as sharp as the rally they enjoyed last week.

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).

Writers are still valuable, and the pivot to video may have been a knee - jerk reaction — though not completely in vain.

«Just hang in there, maintain a long - term perspective and resist the urge for any knee - jerk reactions,» McBride said.

Still, what if, at one point between now and the end of QE tapering, Canadian long - term interest rates were to have the same kind of knee - jerk reaction seen in the U.S. over the summer?

Demand out of China kicked in heading into year - end, in anticipation of the Lunar New Year holidays, while the demonetisation of highvalue banknotes in India led to a knee - jerk spike in demand.

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.»

Given that most politicians» main aim is just to stay in power, the knee - jerk policy responses by the regime of the day is not encouraging, so pondering their reaction to a significant % of the electorate panicking about their mortgages is nightmarish.

Many investors are prone to knee - jerk reactions in times of market turmoil, Spada said, moving into fixed income when the going gets rough, or halting contributions altogether, which can hurt their future account balance more than any investment strategy they select.

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.

«The swift knee - jerk reaction to throw Akin, a strong conservative pro-life, pro-family born again Christian under the bus by some in the Republican Party is shining the light on their actual agenda,» Lane continued.

Just came out of a bad church situation in which I was disrespected as an educated woman, so that was a knee - jerk reaction on my part.

He correctly points out that the Miami Cubans represent no monolith - they are too often portrayed in the media as knee - jerk anti-Communist Republicans - but he fails to grasp fully the community's views on a whole range of pressing social matters, including its relations with blacks, whites, Haitians, and recent Central - American immigrants.

Rather than «knee - jerk» reactions, one way or another, we have to ask how a term is being used by Christians and non-Christians alike, whether its use has been transformed by the Christian message and whether it assists in communicating that message to the culture in which Christians find themselves.

They have some respectable reasons, but the major reason, in my experience, is a knee «jerk reaction against anything that smells like religion or teleology.

Mirroring some questions that Michael Walzer, in 2002, had for the Left after what he then deemed to be a successful military venture in Afghanistan — questions Walzer had regarding knee - jerk criticisms of the war as being beholden to the discredited ideologies of «rag - tag Marxism» and «blaming America first» — Sam likewise wonders if the Right has the resources to offer a similar analysis of contemporary conservatism.

«In contrast, on the left it seems as though there is this knee - jerk embrace of what is more like a militant hostility to faith.»

It is nice to see the college not having a knee - jerk expulsion reaction to LBGT students but the inst!tution is in a real bind.

My own experience in teaching religion and theology to middle - and upper - middle - class undergraduates and graduate students in America for the past decade or so certainly suggests that this way of thinking about religion fits neatly with a strong tendency toward the kind of knee - jerk relativism that is also widespread among those in the same social strata.

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

I speak from my own glaring shortcomings and weaknesses getting up in the morning, my knee - jerk reaction is to go and check Twitter and Instagram before even reading scripture or engaging with God.

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.

Our knee - jerk reaction in times of discomfort has been to reach for our phones.

It's the life sciences, like evolutionary biology and genetics that are often stuck in the intellectual quicksand of ill - informed, knee - jerk atheism, while the hard sciences are bumping up against boundaries beyond which their methodology can't take them — boundaries that may define the meeting ground between scientists and theologians.

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

Scenic vistas are certainly to be valued, but one of the things that has to be resisted is a knee - jerk impulse to keep things in the natural world exactly the way they are in order to continue looking at them.

John, I'm sorry, but writing a post in your blog about yet another example of why you feel a certain way about a certain topic is NOT a knee - jerk reaction!

I think not being able to look at ANY nude images, including those made to reveal beauty (not porn) without having a knee jerk sexual response is a sign of illness in someone's sexuality, because above all things, people are a soul and they HAVE a body.

and «hater» from those for whom the words have become a knee - jerk response to any argument made in opposition to the zeitgeist.

Perhaps this kind of reaction is become a pet peeve of mine, because it seems that every time the truth is spoken in love there is a knee - jerk response, not to refute the arguments (which would be a perfectly legitimate response), but to demonize the speaker as «hateful», etc..

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.

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

Also, Id prefer if people stopped talking like the season is down the swanny when we are still in three comps, wait till after the next three fixtures but if we end up right back in it I would like the swanny talkers to come in here and say ok I've been a knee jerk drama queen before telling us how our world is about to be destroyed.