Sentences with phrase «on knee jerk»

Yeah know, I had to skip a few hundred posts on this thread, just to say...... I agree with you all, and in all honesty, I voted to fire that creep on a knee jerk reaction to the poll.

The thought of intentionally harming a child or defenseless animal brings on a knee jerk reaction of pure hatred in most humans.

Our transfer strategy isn't based on some sound planning and analysis of what we need to improve and compete, but rather on knee jerk reactions to what's happening in the transfer market.

You obviously didn't read the article and the word «Jesus» just set you off on a knee jerk anti-Christian rant

Not exact matches

The knee - jerk reaction may be to put full - time remote workers on a schedule or move part - time remote workers back to the office.

While the market could have a knee - jerk rally on an indication of forthcoming stimulus, we think this would likely be short - lived and could end in the red.

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.

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.

The proposals of Trump advisors Peter Navarro and Wilbur Ross to rely on tax credits to augment infrastructure investment are a textbook case of the dangers of knee - jerk private sector reliance.

As a general rule, however, «politics have very little effect on the stock market other than short - term knee - jerk reactions,» said Karyn Cavanaugh, Voya Investment Management senior vice president.

Another expert, University of Georgia meteorology professor Marshall Shepherd, said that «while we have to be careful about knee - jerk cause - effect discussions, the National Academy of Science and recent peer - reviewed literature continue to show that some of today's extremes have climate change fingerprints on them.»

The only event that will save Glencore is a massive helicopter drop of more printed money and I doubt even that will move the needle on commodity prices (except gold and silver, of course) other than a brief knee - jerk bounce.

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

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.»

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.

«The swift knee - jerk reaction to throw Akin, a strong conservative pro-life, pro-family born again Christian under the bus by some in the Republican Party is shining the light on their actual agenda,» Lane continued.

It's almost as literal an incarnation of a mental «knee jerk reaction» to thoughts and feelings no other living creature on this planet has.

Just came out of a bad church situation in which I was disrespected as an educated woman, so that was a knee - jerk reaction on my part.

Negatively, as 20th - century Americans, our fixation on personal liberty evokes from us an almost knee - jerk reaction against any and all formalism.

He correctly points out that the Miami Cubans represent no monolith - they are too often portrayed in the media as knee - jerk anti-Communist Republicans - but he fails to grasp fully the community's views on a whole range of pressing social matters, including its relations with blacks, whites, Haitians, and recent Central - American immigrants.

«In contrast, on the left it seems as though there is this knee - jerk embrace of what is more like a militant hostility to faith.»

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.

AND you'll be on bended knees, wishing you had said «Lord» instead of «Jerk» just a few moments earlier!

And that's the least of their inflammatory knee - jerk rhetoric, emphasis on jerk.

It is here that the profound issues at stake, which are more difficult to specify than knee - jerk polemicists on either side often assume, come most clearly into view.

A «ban» on fruit juice or any other beverage for that matter is a simplistic, knee jerk reaction that fails to address the bigger issue.

Our submission also cites egregious examples from Victoria's meat regulator PrimeSafe, the huge impact of knee - jerk changes to regulation of raw milk on small - scale dairy farms (many of whom have now gone out of business), and the complicated business of ensuring appropriate labeling of GMO and imported ingredients while not creating an extra burden for small - scale producers who sell directly to the public.

Hooper gets beat up quite a bit on here due to drops but I think that has been knee - jerk.

it was a joke about knee - jerk reactions... on a combative scale of 1 - 10 I think that was about a 1.5.

i would like to digress into a «personal» observation on our beloved english lads especially the likes of theo walcott, ox, whilshere and chambers, before i get the thumbs down coupled with a knee jerk reaction..

Well that's what this column is for, so here's our latest offering of knee - jerk reactions to what we saw on the pitch this weekend...

I come on here and am always staggered by the knee - jerk brigade, absolutely unbelievable.

Wow... The amount of knee - jerk reactions on this website is actually ridiculous.

Cooley went on to state that, «key numbers do factor into our oddsmaking because the public tends to react to them in a more knee - jerk fashion.»

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.

It's unlikely we'll get any news on this for a while as Liberty Media have repeatedly said that knee - jerk reactions to problems aren't good for the sport, but it's an interesting set of circumstances.

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Just how bad must a team perform before we apportion a good dose of blame on them rather than knee - jerk to slag the manager?

I do not doubt there is sometimes embellishment on high stick things, but do no forget sometimes it's simply a knee jerk reaction to seeing a stick coming at you — you flinch — even if it misses you.

Now as much as that may have been too hasty a verdict and too much of a knee jerk reaction to a few below par games, it is also too son to say that the real Mesut Ozil is back and that the German international is about to set the world on fire.

fact is — we just knee jerk to media rumours and gossip and then lay the blame on the Arsenal mgt for not securing a signature.

Perhaps most importantly, I won't react in a knee - jerk way to poor form from any young player as long as they have proven their talent and never compromise on workrate.

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.

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

The «banning of all filming» when Jamie was in town was a knee - jerk decision that was based on a very oversimplified assessment of what Jamie was up to.

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.

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

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

There's a LOT of stuff which gets discussed that I don't agree with but I always try to be respectful and give replies to people based on actual knowledge and not just knee - jerk reactions.