Sentences with phrase «knee jerk responses»

«Its impact is devastating to communities where it occurs and often leads to knee jerk responses from authorities that often do not prevent further self - harm and fail to help us understand what is occurring in communities for these events to occur.»

They also warn against knee jerk responses of removing children from families in crisis, rather than working with their families.

The problem is actually the way people misrepresent the positions of others — as you have done here — and use words to purposely trigger knee jerk responses in people, such as «communal», which to many will bring up images of socialism and whatnot — Jim]

I despair at the back to basics knee jerk responses to these figures.

While I would label myself a conservative, I find the knee jerk responses of the Republican candidates to be pandering for votes, and any candidate that presents a thoughtful response to national and global issues wil at least get a hearing from me.

What an idiotic, left wing zombie knee jerk response!!!

And they only have the knee jerk response to base their opinions on.

The whole 1970's arguement represents little more th the usual knee jerk response from political journalists long isolated from the real world.

The moratorium was needed, she said, because of a «knee jerk response from certain quarters... expressing horror that scientists were brewing up deadly diseases.

The death of Ayen Chol was a terrible tragedy but it does not justify the knee jerk response that ignores the advice of experts in the area of dog bite accident prevention.

Dr Curry, it's probably a simple knee jerk response to dismiss Pournelle as merely being an old guy with no climate qualifications, but in my book when a guy with a 170 IQ and arguably the smartest cookie in the room says something, it's usually a good idea to listen.

I know what drives the reaction, the knee jerk response of applying to every insurance company who will accept an application.

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

Not exact matches

The knee - jerk response of some to that might be «Good!

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.

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.

However, the best course of action usually isn't the knee - jerk reaction, but rather a carefully thought - out and planned response.

While volatile markets occasionally present a challenge for global investors, it is our view that a knee - jerk reaction is rarely the best response.

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.

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

Typical knee - jerk response from a jerk.

Our knee - jerk responses to any questions about sexuality have been reminiscent of purity culture, with slogans like «save yourself», «flee», and the like.

My knee - jerk response was he's arguing again!

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

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

John, is it passionate responses, or knee - jerk reactions?

A knee - jerk reaction is an immediate response to something.

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..

A number of speakers questioned the knee - jerk response which always looks to greater volumes of production as the answer to any food - related issue.

That's the only proper knee - jerk response, right?

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

I added that square because of that knee jerk defensive response I have seen umpteen million times on the net.

My «knee - jerk» reaction was, wow, I wonder what's going to make her have that type of response?

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.

as a knee - jerk response to the most negligible of activities (eating, drinking, coloring, jumping, swinging) in hopes [however unconscious] that our children will repeat the desired action in the future is detrimental to their overall ability to learn and self - motivate.

And «no» is a knee - jerk response that I have when my child is in danger.

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

A knee - jerk response («Don't you talk to me that way, you bad boy!»

To all those whose knee - jerk response is «a child needs both parents, a father deserves time with his child» or something like it, please do some research.

My knee - jerk response almost bursts out of me: words meant to strip my child of her dignity in order to restore the good opinion of a bunch of strangers.

«My point is: What has been the knee - jerk response in NewYork?

It seems, if I read this right, that the public revenue is being tapped as a knee jerk political response, and no real evidence of need or accountability is in open debate.

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.

The knee - jerk response from Cameron is about trade union donors, of course.

«After years of austerity which have increased pressures on schools, the funding reforms must be managed in a way that does not add to the existing pressures on schools or result in «knee - jerk» responses that increase the burdens placed on teachers.

However, Mr Brown resisted Mr Cameron's calls to ban the extremist group Hizb ut Tahrir, continuing his refusal to adopt a knee - jerk response to the recent terror scare.

A distinction can also be made between the moderate scope of the Coaliton's planned reforms, and the fundamental scope of the reforms pledged as a knee - jerk response to the inadequately anticipated consequences of the Scottish independence referendum.