Sentences with phrase «just knee jerk»

But it needs to be thoughtful, targeted action, not just a knee jerk response to a crisis.

An avalanche of emails (and I don't doubt there will be a lot of KDP authors who don't think this through and just knee jerk do exactly what Amazon wants) is going to make any difference at all.

fact is — we just knee jerk to media rumours and gossip and then lay the blame on the Arsenal mgt for not securing a signature.

Not exact matches

Of course, sometimes you need to vet the tech your team uses for security or other reasons, but is that really, actually the case this time, or are you just reverting to «no» as a knee - jerk reaction?

However, that afternoon's bullish knee - jerk reaction faded quickly, causing both the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average to wipe out all their Fed - day gains (and then some) just two days later.

Just mention options and even some of the most seasoned investors will have the same knee - jerk reaction: «They're too complicated... too risky... too expensive.»

But this is just that — a knee - jerk reaction.

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).

However, that afternoon's bullish knee - jerk reaction faded quickly, causing both the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average to wipe out all their Fed - day gains (and then some) just -LSB-...]

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

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.

Now it just so happens that MOST of the Catholics are knee jerk liberals and voted for Obama..

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.

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.

Just the usual knee - jerk response which is why so many dislike you.

Shouldn't worship of a prophet of any religion send them knee - jerking to the comments section — or is it just Christians they hate?

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

The knee jerk reaction would be «eff him, let's not clean him up just dump him as he is.»

AND you'll be on bended knees, wishing you had said «Lord» instead of «Jerk» just a few moments earlier!

Just want to encourage everyone to listen carefully to what Jeremy is teaching, and to guard against knee jerk reactions against it BEFORE processing what he is saying.

The incorporation of this defeat into the evidence for the prosecution is just another sad tumble around the carousel of hysterical drivel that must be kept spinning, spinning, spinning away, lest anybody get a chance to look beyond the savage and dispiriting sideshow of jerked knees, pointed fingers, and baseless, spittle - flecked invective, to the dark and rotting brand below.

I just object to simplistic, knee - jerk responses to complex problems.

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

Just how bad must a team perform before we apportion a good dose of blame on them rather than knee - jerk to slag the manager?

@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.

The firing of Jorge Costa by Gabon just 70 days before they host the African Nations Cup continues a sorry tale of panicked and knee - jerk decision making by African football federations.

All lies, just like Wenger's management a lie.This is without doubt the most embarrassing defeat of Wenger's era, and I struggle to find a worse one in my lifetime.This should be Wenger's last game as Arsenal manager, and I call on him now to resign, this is not a knee jerk reaction, merely final recognition that time is up for this arrogant lying man.I felt really sorry for Thierry Henry.

I have been through 6 Superintendents and countless top level bureaucrats in that time and made plenty of enemies myself — just so you know that I am no knee - jerk supporter of school districts or school bureaucracies.

But sending the kids to camp shouldn't just be a knee - jerk reaction to summer break.

There's a LOT of stuff which gets discussed that I don't agree with but I always try to be respectful and give replies to people based on actual knowledge and not just knee - jerk reactions.

Pflock: I've learned to challenge myself to make sure every «no» is warranted, not just a knee - jerk response.

Unfortunately the solution is not a knee - jerk rejection of all things medical, because that means going back to the bad old days when everyone knew someone who had died in childbirth, and babies weren't just expected to survive like they are now.

Am I just betraying my knee - jerk liberal love of Big Government, or do you think that's a valid concern?

You can tell yourself your knee isn't going to jerk when you hit it... but it does, just as much the hundredth time as it does the first, and it stops as soon as the stimulus stops.

Or is this just a knee - jerk reaction to a misleading headline?

Whilst the severity of the outbreak must be recognised, we also need a proportionate response, and a knee - jerk ban on enabling members of the public to interact with farm animals would be just that.

Just want to be clear about the knee - jerk «both parties are the same» argument that will no be doubt be used.

According to him, those are just knee - jerk approaches to the issue which needs proper solution such as ranching.

Gun control legislation certainly isn't going anywhere — House Speaker Paul Ryan suggested as much on Thursday morning, when he said Congress needs more information on what would be an effective policy: «I think, as public policymakers, we don't just knee - jerk before we even have all the facts and the data.»

Plus, don't underestimate the number of knee - jerk liberals who will vote for Wu just because he has the endorsement of the New York Times.

We want to not just have a knee - jerk reaction to this event even though it is a big deal,» Thornberry said.

The exact mechanism behind the L - dopa signal is still not completely understood, but one thing was clear: It was effective at getting the spinal cord to send chemical signals that stimulated the cats» otherwise immobile legs — and not just in a knee - jerk automatic response, but in more complicated steplike, rhythmic patterns.

«Matchmaking is just a knee - jerk reaction for me,» she said.

«But to me, the knee - jerk reaction, if I had to, is Ava Duvernay, who I think would just kill it.

As just a knee - jerk observation, this looks like Gosford Park meets The Royal Tenenbaums with the beauty of something like Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

Oh, and by the way, describing my response to your comment as «knee - jerk» just exposes how arrogant you are.

Just a ragbag collection of knee - jerk reactive sound bites led by the issue du jour.

I'm not going back to a dark place, I just had to get this out while the topic was still fresh on my mind, and just speaking personally, it's hard to keep myself alert to some of theses things because I can't take part myself, not because I'm knee - jerk skeptic, I just wanted to make that clear.

Huge number of myths around indie publishing and going to a traditional publisher, so many that most writers won't think of indie publishing, will just knee - jerk right into the old agent / editor / publisher system without one thought of going another way.

* Chazz definition: A backlash article is an article written to assure the reader that the writer is the sane voice of wisdom when in fact they're really just knee - jerk contrarians railing against all evidence.