Sentences with phrase «than a knee jerk»

It is frustrating to see fans blame Wenger for stuff which he isn't to blame for, he has plenty of blame that if you take 5 mins to look at it then you can spot multiple reasons other than knee jerk bandwagon type of articles.

Perhaps the new thinking is a logical evolution of thought, no, rather than a knee jerk reaction?

I am not sure why some lawyers oppose this (other than a knee jerk reaction against being told by the Law Society to do anything).

Not exact matches

Morgan Stanley's Jonas is a car guy and gets the business, so his bullishness can be chalked up more to far - reaching thinking than knee - jerk bullishness.

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.

Other than perhaps a short - term, knee - jerk reaction, the winner of each presidential election typically has much less to do with the future direction of the stock market than one may wish to believe.

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.

Many investors are prone to knee - jerk reactions in times of market turmoil, Spada said, moving into fixed income when the going gets rough, or halting contributions altogether, which can hurt their future account balance more than any investment strategy they select.

The knee - jerk reaction of many Canadians, including Industry Minister Tony Clement, is to assume that high gas prices and inflated profit margins are likely to be explained by collusion among the big oil companies to fix prices at higher than acceptable levels.

Rather than «knee - jerk» reactions, one way or another, we have to ask how a term is being used by Christians and non-Christians alike, whether its use has been transformed by the Christian message and whether it assists in communicating that message to the culture in which Christians find themselves.

That's nothing more than proof - texting, and I'm used to more substantive, less knee - jerk arguments from you.

But for Christians, there's more to The Witch than what some knee - jerk reactions may inform us.

Hence my criticism of those who were simply knee - jerk reacting to the conference rather than engaging the dialogue.

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.

My knee - jerk reaction was um no, it's too cold, but she's so dedicated to walking even when the temps are below zero, that I agreed if for no other reason than I didn't want to be a wimp.

Taking away cheerleading would be a knee jerk solution that hurts more people than it helps.

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?

Much more balanced than my knee - jerk reaction.

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.

However, I can't help but think that many parents opt for a knee - jerk reaction to hand a device to our children rather than parent them.

We show up to the parenting journey carrying the baggage of our own histories: the fears, traumas, limiting beliefs, self - doubt, and those less - than - elegant, knee - jerk reaction tendencies.

You can then choose your words and actions in an intentional way rather than resort to a knee - jerk reaction that stems from your own fear, insecurity, or hurt place.

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).

This suggests that the link between gun crime and gun ownership is more tenuous than knee - jerk reactions take for granted.

Labour's shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander today accused the Prime Minister of a «fairly knee - jerk reaction which... may well have been driven more by politics than by a considered judgment of the needs of the constitution».

He has been considerably more effective in slapping down Gordon Brown than our knee - jerking Thunderbird puppets and has that peculiarly idiosyncratic tendency, for a politico, to articulate the truth.

My knee jerk reaction to that question is simply that yoga and karate have much more in common than one might think.

Thus, the jerk displayed a much more knee - dominant net joint moment profile than the jump or jump landing.

The net moments joint moments were similar at the ankle across the three movements but knee moments were greater in the jerk (2.34 ± 0.46 times bodyweight) than in either the jump (1.65 ± 0.21 times bodyweight) or the jump landing (1.75 ± 0.51 times bodyweight).

I have been accused, on more than one occasion, of reacting with knee - jerking contempt to any displays of sentimentality in film, and to some extent these accusations are on target.

Pre-digested thoughts of Charles Darwin and knee - jerk reactions to «Creation» will create more of a tempest of controversy than anything actually in «Creation.»

This would appear to be a knee - jerk reaction to PlayStation Plus, which has proven to be more than slightly popular.

I never thought I'd see the day when Slant Magazine would be the one critical outlet reviewing a film on artistic rather than (knee - jerk) political merit.

Most often the only visible evaluation is the reaction sheet handed out at the end of a cpd session, which is little more than a knee - jerk response to the session itself and too often reflects the mismatch between the content and the existing knowledge of the participant.

The UFT represents charter educators at more than 20 schools, whose track records refute this knee - jerk anti-unionism.

Rep. Rosa Gill, a Democrat from Wake County and a former high school math teacher, likened Bryan and Brockman's achievement schools districts to little more than a «tangent» and a «knee - jerk» reaction to chronically struggling schools.

Susan Burns, at Vanderbilt's National Center on Performance Incentives, said collaboration — rather than «knee - jerk responses» — characterizes some of the most promising systems.

It seems to us that whenever someone proposes actually holding teachers accountable for teaching (e.g. allowing principals to walk into their classrooms more than once a year to evaluate them; having real consequences for ineffective teaching or egregious behavior; etc.) there is a tsunami of push - back and vitriol that is knee - jerk, sadly effective and incredibly depressing if you know the very real impact their «teacher protection at all costs» policies have on students, especially low - income students who get the worst of the worst in our «zip code» - based system.

While it is important continue examining the long - term benefits and drawbacks of school - choice programs — through detailed research and student or parent interviews, in particular — the knee - jerk desire on the left to reject education freedom often betrays blind loyalty to teachers» unions rather than to considering what programs are truly best for American children and families.

Months removed from the knee - jerk, guttural response to this new Porsche feel, the little changes Stuttgart wrought here now feel more welcome than unwanted, more logical than blasphemous.

Rather than use their heads and say, «This ebook wasn't for me,» they knee - jerk reacted and panned the writing or called my and my co-author Blake Crouch «deviants».

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.

And yet, «active» managers like Hylland Capital will be criticized for «picking stocks», while the committee members that decide on which companies should make up the S&P 500 will be praised for their «passiveness» despite them making more knee jerk reactions to market performance than we have.

was finally released, the pound jumped even higher as a knee - jerk reaction because the report looked good on the surface, with the jobless rate for the three months to September unchanged at a record low 4.3 % and the number of people who claimed unemployment benefits increasing only by 1.1 K in October, which is less than the expected 2.9 K increase.

And when the U.K.'s latest jobs report was finally released, the pound jumped even higher as a knee - jerk reaction because the report looked good on the surface, with the jobless rate for the three months to September unchanged at a record low 4.3 % and the number of people who claimed unemployment benefits increasing only by 1.1 K in October, which is less than the expected 2.9 K increase.

Those in favor of his suspension generally point out that America's 1st Amendment guarantee of free speech only protects you from government interference regarding political speech (and does not prevent employers from exercising their rights to discipline employees), whereas those defending Robertson have been quick to lament the knee - jerk reaction to those expressing counter-progressive cultural beliefs in a very clumsy fashion, and claim there is a double standard in which politically unpopular conservative viewpoints are quicker to result in job terminations than politically unpopular liberal viewpoints that are also clumsily expressed.

However, forex traders were apparently more focused on the disappointing loss of full - time jobs, which was the biggest since July 2010, since the Loonie's usual knee - jerk reaction to the better - than - expected reading for net employment change was only very brief.

A knee - jerk reaction can cause you to sell when prices are low, rather than hold onto an investment that has the potential to rebound and erase paper losses.

Nothing is scarier than thinking you puppy is sick, and the automatic knee - jerk action is to fix it, but we can't stress enough that you should be very careful and use common sense.

Like LisaH, I have two dogs - one who is unusually good at generalization, pattern recognition, and problem solving and who demonstrates a particularly good memory and sense of object permanence, and a second dog whose behaviors seem much more «knee - jerk», usually being either conditioned or scattered and impulsive rather than thoughtful.