Sentences with phrase «knee jerk reactions when»

We often have knee jerk reactions when we're outside our comfort zone: to fight, to run, to shut down.

The knee jerk reaction when one loses money in the market is generally one of two things.

Knee jerk reactions to complaints that result in the indiscriminate culling of cats also produces another knee jerk reaction when people start bringing them home in big numbers to keep them safe.

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Walsh said she had a «knee - jerk» negative reaction when she heard Bloom was representing Weinstein, but changed her mind when she thought about projects Weinstein worked on that benefited women and heard Bloom's explanation.

De drew directly from his experience at the NSA when explaining that knee - jerk reactions to share too much and too little information with the public are dangerous.

The knee - jerk reaction when a company wants to pretty up its balance sheet is, often, to sell off expensive non-core assets.

Nischal Shetty, CEO at WazirX, said «knee - jerk reactions» like these can cause the future generation to be left behind when the rest of the world moves ahead.

It's something else entirely when the community responds to that news with knee - jerk reactions of name - calling, inflammatory accusations, and boycotts (Goose Island news, for example).

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.

When I read what most investors have to say about a company - it could be Domino's, it could be U.S. Lime, etc. - they have too quick, too knee - jerk a reaction to the business.

I have to admit that I have a knee jerk reaction to the goat / ram - as - devil presentation, as I understand that such imagery was a way for the early Established church to villianize pagans via propaganda... so when I see it used today as continued propaganda, I tend to be offended.

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.

Because you can analyze all you want, but if you're simply going to be subjective in your analysis then the conclusion you draw will likely be the same one you drew when you initially had a knee jerk get Wenger out reaction.

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

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..

It is probably a simple knee - jerk reaction to Giroud's injury, but is Zigic going to be of any use whatsoever, except as a target man when we get corners and free - kicks.

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.

When this happens, our old trauma comes back to life — not as a memory of the past, but as a fear - driven, knee - jerk reaction.

The knee - jerk reaction when someone cheats on you is to want to kick the «no - good so and so» out.

When handling temper tantrums, it is imperative that you relax your knee - jerk reaction to control and micro-manage your child's behavior.

«What I rejected before was a knee - jerk reaction,» in which lawmakers immediately proposed legislation that hadn't been thought through when a gun tragedy happened, Higgins said in the interview.

Whether it's a double - take or jaw - drop, people tend to have knee - jerk reactions when they see a beautiful person, and BeautifulPeople doesn't try to sugarcoat that fact.

Whitney Engeran - Cordova, the Senior Director of the Public Health Division for AIDS Healthcare Foundation said: «When other popular mobile dating apps were firing off legal notices or moving to shut down our STD prevention messaging in a knee - jerk reaction to our billboards, SCRUFF is to be commended for taking the more prudent approach by acknowledging the importance of encouraging STD prevention and awareness to their millions of users.»

Of course diversity has little - to - nothing to do with the validity of any property, but far too many have knee - jerk reactions when properties that feature some form of diversity fail.

That being said, her initial knee - jerk reaction when Haynes called her up for «I'm Not There» was telling him that he was insane.

I knew last month when Amazon announced the changes to the payment schedule for the KU / KOLL programs that there would be the immediate knee jerk reaction we see so often where Bezos and company are concerned.

The knee - jerk reaction is understandable, but look on the bright side: those who should be ignoring the «a few typos are okay» heads - up are the ones who will use that as an excuse to call things «good enough» when they really aren't, so their blurbs and sample chapters will be more likely to accurately reflect their content.

When equities take a beating, people tend to get nervous and their knee - jerk reaction is to load up on GICs and bonds.

Certainly, there will be times when you need to employ discretion, mainly in exiting Forex trades, but by and large you can map out what you are going to do before you enter the market, therefore there are no surprises and no knee - jerk reactions to whatever unfolds after you enter a trade.

And when the U.K.'s latest jobs report was finally released, the pound jumped even higher as a knee - jerk reaction because the report looked good on the surface, with the jobless rate for the three months to September unchanged at a record low 4.3 % and the number of people who claimed unemployment benefits increasing only by 1.1 K in October, which is less than the expected 2.9 K increase.

I know there's a knee - jerk reaction to saying, hey, gambling is not a business or trade, but again, when the activity is extensive and routine, in addition to producing significant income, the IRS can and does consider the activity as self - employment, and requires self - employment taxes.

You obviate the human emotion that makes us first and foremost bad investors, the «sell when you're down» knee - jerk reaction.

Initially invested in whole lot of schemes, panicked when NAVs fell, sold few schemes at knee - jerk reactions, made short - term capital losses....

Don't act rashly: «You shouldn't have a knee - jerk reaction to anything when it comes to investments,» says Jason Heath, a fee - only financial planner with Objective Financial Partners in Toronto.

A knee - jerk reaction can cause you to sell when prices are low, rather than hold onto an investment that has the potential to rebound and erase paper losses.

Despite the knee - jerk reaction to sell telecoms when interest rates start creeping up, investors should take solace in the very secure and stable business that BCE runs, which has been rewarding shareholders for well over a century.

For many years, when people have asked me if I'm good at video games, my knee - jerk reaction is to say no.

When something visual triggers an emotional response that feels so palpable, the knee jerk reaction may well be to imbue it with bodily allusions but these only lead back to ones «ego».

I'll go off on a tangent here: it is beyond ridiculous that when people see rats in a neighborhood, the knee - jerk reaction is to immediately blame the person who is daring to compost food scraps.

When coaching or speaking to lawyers about the importance of networking, the knee - jerk reaction of many is «you got ta be kidding me; I would rather take the bar exam again than network!»

One could say that when AT&T unveiled its own unlimited data offering, it was a knee - jerk reaction.

When this occurs, the knee - jerk reaction is to blame the resume for the lack of responses, but the resume is only effective if you have a strong search strategy to accompany the document.

The knee - jerk reaction is to immediately start looking for another job, and possibly even resign from your current position abruptly when things aren't going well.

The typical knee - jerk reaction in a down market is to slash advertising and then rebuild it when the market recovers.