Sentences with word «kneejerk»

"Kneejerk" refers to an immediate or automatic reaction made without thinking or considering the situation carefully. Full definition
Its literally facebook level of kneejerk reactions.
Anybody can slash and burn inventory and generate quick cash, but the aftermath of kneejerk business decisions can haunt you for months to come.
But instead of beginning a new year with kneejerk resolutions to change this, do better at that, what if we made time for real reflection?
Meant to say at the end, we need to provide service to Lacazette and he will score goals, he may need a bit of time to adapt so we fans need to relax a bit and not make kneejerk twitter posts!
I ask Christians to use their minds and ignore these appeals to kneejerk emotional diatribes.
They can be myopic, characteristically failing to distinguish between kneejerk opposition to anything new versus legitimate concerns about what's needed for effective implementation.
Simon Hughes, who has responsibility for women's prisons, criticises government policy as kneejerk and unsuccessful
The nuances of coalition mean that thankfully such kneejerk reactions are no longer possible.
Nick Clegg, speaking at the pre-manifesto launch, told Politics.co.uk he had been a longstanding advocate that drugs policy in Britain has been «blighted by kneejerk prejudice».
Farron's speech at conference was full of anti-Tory remarks, and Farron attacked the government's response to the riots, saying «we stood up against the witless kneejerk populism of the Tories after the riots».
We fought against the bankers, we stood up against the witless kneejerk populism of the Tories after the riots, we've fought against tax cuts for the rich and we came out fighting on the NHS, and I'll tell you what, we will continue the fight for our NHS.
My initial kneejerk for this one is a little different - since it sat outside, and since it runs FOR A WHILE before it shuts down, and since a cooldown does get it running again... I think it's overheating.
krugman's bow to co2 and climate change is utterly kneejerk; it has become the prerequisite kissing of the pope's ring, a kneel to the authority of the new leftist universalist religion.
But one thing is for certain, the man can write and one shouldn't kneejerk away from his work because of some stereotypical religious negativity.
Only The Times report was something of a throwback to the old kneejerk Popeknocking days: «Critics,» wrote one Richard Owen, «said that putting a Ratzinger - Bertone alliance at the top of the Vatican hierarchy meant that the Church would be in the hands of «arch-conservatives» at a time when many Catholics, especially in the Third World, are calling forreform.»
I think the first kneejerk is Gotze but would anyone really be comfortable about that?
Kneejerk anti-immigration rhetoric is ruling the day - and it's a very ugly kind of politics made even worse by the coalition's spending cuts agenda.
JS Mill's description of Conservatives as inherently dimwitted and irredeemably nasty is a favourite default, copy and paste, kneejerk riposte for the progressively smug and English «nationalism» is, clearly, seen as both dimwitted and nasty.
#CQC has worked hard to restore confidence in its work.Crucial it is not distracted by kneejerk priorities.
The NYPD gave the usual kneejerk denial — in about 500 words and with bullet points — when a city report eviscerated the department's Sex Crimes Unit as incompetent and...
Labour's kneejerk critics can sometimes sound like the People's Front of Judea asking what the Romans have ever done for us.
Someone, presumably the talented young screenwriter W. D. Richter, working with relentless kneejerk facility, has seen fit to write it into the story — a vivid, entertaining and shamelessly manipulative «crusading» melodrama about the impact of a reform warden on a barbarous penal institution.
Such moments elevate «Rush» out of kneejerk repetitiveness.
Michael Kozlowski, you sir are doing a great disservice by helping to propagate ridiculous misinformation and an even more ridiculous kneejerk reaction.
Sure, there is always anti-capitalist kneejerk sentiment to be harvested, and some folks just want a chance to dump on Amazon because Amazon is successful.
That way, you'll be less likely to make an uninformed kneejerk reaction to news that turns out to be exactly the wrong move.
The Wii U was a big flop and Nintendo needs a home console that does well and from this worry there has been a big kneejerk reaction against anything even remotely negative.
It can make you emotional and irrational, tempting you to make kneejerk follow - up trades that are outside your trading plan.
Regulators and advocacy groups agree, though, that kneejerk regulation is not what is needed; rather, the need is thoughtful regulation and an increase in education.
Kneejerk responses to the lobbying scandal and terrorism in Woolwich are inherently weak.
Paul Flynn, chair of the British Medical Association's consultants committee, said: «Although we need to find urgent solutions to these problems, kneejerk reactions are not going to be helpful.
At times in the initial xxxGates period I did also have the impression he was trying to moderate his initial kneejerks, but damage done.
an over [r] eliance on central planning... delude the warmers... bow to co2 and climate change is utterly kneejerk; the prerequisite kissing of the pope's ring, a kneel to the authority of the new leftist universalist religion.
He was once a government whip and so knows the sort of kneejerk - prone individuals he is dealing with.
«Your kneejerk reaction is to act, immediately,» says Moss.
The dollar initially plunged by a similar amount, though it also recouped some of its kneejerk losses to trade 15 per cent lower at 0.8884 francs.
So when investors hear that interest rates may rise, some assume it's bad for bond investments and want to sell out of the market in a kneejerk reaction.
This led to a kneejerk reaction from automated systems following the desperate words of a European socialist who can not live without Britain's sponsorship.
Any sort of trade variance now would just be a kneejerk reaction.

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