Sentences with phrase «with knee jerk»

By going with your knee jerk reaction to swerve you run the risk of hitting a car in your blind spot, a center divide, or even right off the road.

Singer is a political ideolog with a knee jerk opposition to environmental and health regulation, who has been paid by corporations to cast doubt on the scientific evidence.

As I said yesterday, grow up and stop with the knee jerk reactions.

Enough with the knee jerk racism.

Instead of having a scapegoat and blaming the earth with knee jerk reactions, we are 1 - 2 players behind Chelsea.

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..

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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.

Argentina, with its deep devaluation of the peso, China hiding its economic intentions, and Turkey with its knee - jerk movement in interest rates are examples of how governments have perhaps acted «selfishly.»

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.

And so it is with customers and their knee jerk reaction to getting a deal.

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.

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.

De drew directly from his experience at the NSA when explaining that knee - jerk reactions to share too much and too little information with the public are dangerous.

In the corporate world, I often see a knee - jerk reaction to stakeholder activism; a rush to mount a defence with lawyers or bankers.

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.

As usual, the people most agitated about this are the governance mavens with a knee - jerk reaction against anything that undermines shareholder democracy.

It's something else entirely when the community responds to that news with knee - jerk reactions of name - calling, inflammatory accusations, and boycotts (Goose Island news, for example).

This seemingly innocuous event can have numerous ripple effects for shareholders that should be carefully evaluated before you respond with any knee - jerk reactions.

Knee - jerk loyalty to American regime change projects drove both, but they were nevertheless strange policies to be taken up by a country that has its own challenges with national unity.

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...

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.

Our knee - jerk responses to any questions about sexuality have been reminiscent of purity culture, with slogans like «save yourself», «flee», and the like.

At the same time, we should question knee - jerk criticisms of cyberspace, especially when we baptize secular critiques with quasi-theological rhetoric.

My own experience in teaching religion and theology to middle - and upper - middle - class undergraduates and graduate students in America for the past decade or so certainly suggests that this way of thinking about religion fits neatly with a strong tendency toward the kind of knee - jerk relativism that is also widespread among those in the same social strata.

I speak from my own glaring shortcomings and weaknesses getting up in the morning, my knee - jerk reaction is to go and check Twitter and Instagram before even reading scripture or engaging with God.

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.

I think you may be carrying some emotional baggage with the hot - button, knee - jerk phase «Political Correctness».

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.

Jessie, I'm chuckling because I typically have a sort of knee - jerk aversion to the idea of baking with beans!

«We're doing close to $ 15 billion worth of trade with the Arab region and this is a very important area of our economy and trade obviously contributes to prosperity so it's important for us to view these issues objectively and calmly and not to resort to knee jerk reactions and biased comments.»

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

My point is not to justify violence against anybody, or Ray Rice, rather, it's to speak out against the knee jerk emotional reaction that automatically condemns one party simply because he's «bigger and stronger» and was born with a different set of reproductive equipment.

My point is not to justify violence against anybody, or justify Ray Rice, rather, it's to speak out against the knee jerk emotional reaction that automatically condemns one party simply because he's «bigger and stronger» and was born with a different set of reproductive equipment.

So here we go with an article which will be considered by many to be a knee jerk reaction to yesterday's appalling performance but is in actuality more related to the state of play at the club the problems with our manager and ultimately the utter lack of ambition from the board.

So should knee - jerk critics who want to run off a fair manager with some backbone.

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

Having said that I agree with you that most Arsenal fans are prone to knee jerk reactions.

It sounds pretty cool, but there was hope that teams influencing the rules and knee - jerk regulations changes were the sort of thing we'd be seeing less of with the arrival of Liberty Media.

Of course, there are those within the anti-Wenger camp who have taken to social media in the heat of the moment or after having a few and vented their frustrations without the use of a filter, but surely by this point enough former Wenger supporters have come forward and openly voiced their displeasure with the direction of this club that the debate has moved from the realm of knee - jerk reactionaries to a place where rational thought trumps sheer bravado.

Football fans around the world sometimes live in a dreamland with sports simulation games at you fingertips and knee jerk reactions week by week.

So your reflexes, like a knee hit with a hammer, are jerking.

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.

It's no surprise that most moms, particularly new ones, are ready with a knee - jerk apology for every baby or kid - related incident that annoys another human being.

When our ingrained attachment needs are triggered, such as during a conflict with our spouse, it can be difficult to rise above our knee - jerk, subconscious reflexes to shut down / run away or worry / cling — relating tendencies that insecurely attached children learn to be able to maintain attachment with their parents, but these same tendencies don't work so well in other relationships like marriage.

To all those whose knee - jerk response is «a child needs both parents, a father deserves time with his child» or something like it, please do some research.

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.

punishing the UK as a deterrent to other members is a knee - jerk reaction: sooner or later those EU countries whose voters are discontented with Brussels will have to face up to the causes of their discontent;

The nation's top energy - industry lobbyist said Cuomo's «knee - jerk» ban on fracking is being «cheered» by the gas and oil industries in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, all of which share the gas - rich Marcellus Shale region with New York.

Whilst the severity of the outbreak must be recognised, we also need a proportionate response, and a knee - jerk ban on enabling members of the public to interact with farm animals would be just that.

The Countryside Alliance has criticised as «knee jerk» a government report which suggests children should not have contact with animals at open farms.