Sentences with phrase «not knee jerk»

I have seen comments about climate researchers motives and biases by regulars that are based on comments or actions by some researchers which call into question their motives or biases, but those are not knee jerk assumptions.

Adult policies and not knee jerk left wing twaddle from the perpetually confounded fringe neo-socialist left like the webster.

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.

And that's not a knee jerk, emotional reaction.

I think ElNeny was NOT a knee jerk signing, he was a cheap option of something Wenger wanted but couldn't get the permission to spend on at that time, Xhaka.

Its not knee jerk.

Let's hope that his replacement will be a well planned and coordinated affair, not a knee jerk reaction to the noises from fault finders

wenger been holding us back for years its nothing new and its not a knee jerk reaction.

It is not a knee jerk reaction.

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Layoffs should be a last resort, he says, not a knee - jerk reaction.

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.

Some lawmakers have already called for new regulations and congressional action since the shooting, while others have said there shouldn't be a «knee - jerk» reaction to the violence.

Secretary Clinton may try to re-negotiate environmental and labour issues in the treaty, but let's not typify a knee jerk reaction since she has publicly committed to find common ground and purpose to boost the US economy and promote free trade with like - minded partners.

Christopher Pissarides, a professor of economics at the London School of Economics, said Trump was having a «knee - jerk reaction» to certain groups of Americans who did not benefit from the past several decades of open trade.

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.

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

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

Don't have a knee - jerk reaction and quickly change your plan.

He said such knee - jerk refusals are only a viable strategy if you truly believe Trump can not cancel NAFTA — an assessment Harper does not share.

A Country Garden spokeswoman said the closure of the sales centers was «not a knee - jerk reaction» to the policy and reflected a shift to selling internationally.

It was a knee - jerk reaction because no one wants it to happen and the brain can't get itself around the possibility.

«The important thing is not to have a knee - jerk reaction to the headlines.»

Writers are still valuable, and the pivot to video may have been a knee - jerk reaction — though not completely in vain.

But Pollard doesn't see much long - term planning going on, but rather a «knee - jerk reaction» in the industry «because of how fast the bottom's been pulled out from underneath them.»

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.

Trading based on short - term price movements and emotional, knee - jerk reactions is not investing, it's speculating.

There was a knee - jerk reaction to blame the machines on the swift decline, and perhaps they exacerbated the selloff, but let's not forget that human beings are perfectly capable of sending stocks lower.

With shares down sharply, the reaction to phase III trial results for the lupus drug has been «knee - jerk» and probably not fully reflective of the outlook for the...

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

I can see how the knee jerk reaction is to «prevent people from doing X.», but taking away peoples freedom to live their lives they way they want isn't the answer.

Because my husband doesn't speak your politically correct language and instead responds in a knee jerk reaction to what he sees here, you immediately circle around and start wagging your fingers as you did me.

Part of why I think Jesus talks so explicitly about loving our enemies and turning the other cheek is because it isn't our knee - jerk reaction; it doesn't necessarily come naturally to us.

Looks to me like your knee is jerking wildly and can't find a target.

It is nice to see the college not having a knee - jerk expulsion reaction to LBGT students but the inst!tution is in a real bind.

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.

And our knee jerk reaction is that freedom does not tend to lend itself to man reaching higher but lower.

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

It's the life sciences, like evolutionary biology and genetics that are often stuck in the intellectual quicksand of ill - informed, knee - jerk atheism, while the hard sciences are bumping up against boundaries beyond which their methodology can't take them — boundaries that may define the meeting ground between scientists and theologians.

It is such a knee jerk reaction that you can not help yourself.

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

And while I'm not a knee - jerk Republican, Boehner has a good point when he counters that the deficit (that is, debt and taxes) is equally a moral issue.

Donald Trump, to his credit, is the only Republican that said he won't knee - jerk vote Republican if he loses the primary.

This is what Bill Nye is going on about: we have a nation full of knee - jerk reactionaries quick to dismiss what they don't even posess a high - school level understanding of, simply because it doesn't fit perfectly with the mindlessly repeated dogma they've been indoctrinated with since birth.

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.»

John, I'm sorry, but writing a post in your blog about yet another example of why you feel a certain way about a certain topic is NOT a knee - jerk reaction!

Frankly, this blog strikes me as one of those deals where the former pastor figures out that all the other religious people are wrong, and he doesn't want to be one of those «fundie douchebags» (to quote one of your fans), and so he starts spewing cynical knee - jerk vitriol against anything that smacks of conservativism or evangelicalism or whatever.

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.

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..