Sentences with phrase «make knee jerk»

Calling fans who with - hold their judgement and not make knee jerk reactions fools is all we need to know about that idiot.

Pretty sure he was traded because after having a bad playoff game that rookie year and Lavi making a knee jerk reaction and scratching him, they went out and signed Bryz to a billion year contract.

Almost everyone makes the knee jerk reaction in saying they want a cute fluffy puppy they can «raise the way they want».

Make sure you understand the counter offer and avoid making a knee jerk decision.

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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.

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.

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

Given your desire to please and the destructive power displeased customers can wield, it's understandable that entrepreneurs have «a knee - jerk, internal wince, and either rush to make things better or defend our stance... and our name,» when confronted with a complaining customer writes blogger Adam Gottlieb.

This keeps you from making hasty decisions based on knee - jerk reactions to standard business hiccups.

That's when knee - jerk investors make the mistake of deciding to get into the action and pick up some shares, driving the price up further.

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

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.

Wilson's right knee jerks to the left as a result of his right shin making contact with Cole's shin.

Of course they do, but you get nowhere in this game from making knee - jerk decisions.

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@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.

Whether you think it's time for Bruce to leave now or be given more time, one thing for sure is that the board are unlikely to make any knee - jerk reactions so soon into a new season.

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.

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

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.

Make a commitment to pausing and thinking about how you want to respond to your child, rather than falling back on the old knee - jerk reaction.

I can tolerate DovBear (TM)'s knee - jerk Leftism, and sometimes even his snarky disdain for Americans who have made aliyah (obviously, we all think we are better than he is).

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

What would you do in a TV debate with leaders of other parties?I'd spike their water with a potent cocktail of skunk and ecstasy and enjoy watching their over-earnest, knee - jerk policy - making dissolve into a heady, Dionysian love fest.

It rejects asylum claims as a knee - jerk reaction, leaving it to judges to grant asylum on appeal, as they apply the proper legal decision - making procedure to the decision.

The shadow Scottish secretary said the last thing any party should do after a heavy election defeat is make «knee jerk reactions and turn in on themselves».

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.

It is easy to have a knee jerk reaction and side with the position that will be initially received with great favor, but if history has taught us anything, we need to look beyond the instant gratification and look at the lasting effects of the decisions we make and support.

Wrong diagnosis will lead us to knee - jerk reactions and piecemeal solutions, which will in turn simply make the situation worse.

An ad - hoc, knee - jerk management of foreign policy will only make us look more ridiculous in the eyes of the world.

The Feb. 11 resolution went on to say that the legislators felt that part of the SAFE Act was «thoughtful,» in its attempt to «reduce instances of gun violence involving New Yorkers,» but that they believed other aspects of the act were «knee - jerk reactions made without the benefit of appropriate contemplation at best or, at worst, disingenuous fee grabs, cloaked as security measures.»

Even if we don't all switch to Bug Burgers, Gracer and his insects are helping to change our habit of making knee - jerk decisions about what we should and shouldn't be eating.

The absence of consensus and the diversity of opinion — ranging from knee - jerk canonization to clueless cries of exploitation — in some way echo the movie's own snapshot of a society scrambling to make sense of things.

Sweet Home Alabama, victimized by knee - jerk reactions to NRG surveys (in addition to reshooting the finale because a bait - and - switch gag made especially gullible preview auds uncomfortable, Tennant removed a subplot that cast doubt upon the Patrick Dempsey character's fidelity to Reese Witherspoon's), is thus paralyzed from the studio logo down; sometimes you're supposed to be provoked, sometimes that's the point.

Making her second feature as a director after Then She Found Me in 2007, Hunt takes a page from Woody Allen in Jackie's Manhattan - centric hyper - neuroses and knee - jerk contempt for the West Coast.

It's enough for some people to have an immediate knee - jerk reaction to him being involved in any film, let alone a remake of an oft - imitated, never - toped genre classic that found the perfect balance between grim humor and gruesome horror while breaking ground with its astonishing practical make - up and creature effects (the great Rick Baker won the first - ever Best Make - Up Oscar for his work on the fimake - up and creature effects (the great Rick Baker won the first - ever Best Make - Up Oscar for his work on the fiMake - Up Oscar for his work on the film).

The knee - jerk sides of cinema, they have the power to quite literally make audiences bend to their will — be it a gasp, a laugh, or a jump.

So you are getting this knee - jerk reaction because schools are so scared that if they don't make a referral, they will be found wanting.»

Teachers are making «knee - jerk» referrals of pupils they feel may be at risk of radicalisation because they are afraid of falling foul of new terrorism reporting laws, experts say.

Education union ATL Cymru said the «very disappointing» results should not lead to «knee - jerk reactions or quick fixes» that will «make matters worse».

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.

As far as many of the knee - jerk reactions over on PG's site, it makes me think that perhaps they doth protest too much.

But sleep on it, mull it over, and don't make any knee - jerk decisions.

For an app that feels like a somewhat fluffy dating tool, low prices seem critical — Tinder needs to catch us on the impulse buy (in the same knee - jerk, gut - reaction way that has made them popular in the first place).

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.

My biggest issue with agency pricing was that it was a knee - jerk reaction by the publishers not only to Steve Jobs» demand for it (assuming he actually made that demand) but also to their fear of Amazon.

Developed as a less than subtle knee - jerk reaction to Samsung's Galaxy Note, the Vu went on sale in Korea earlier this year, and it'll soon be making its way to Japan on NTT Docomo, too.

But for Pete's sake, make an informed decision and quit doing the knee - jerk thing just because you want to please your publisher.

Knee - jerk reactions to market fluctuations can lead to buying high and selling low, making it difficult to stay on track and achieve long - term financial goals.