| As already stated, the Council often has a knee-jerk reaction when it comes to deciding to lower the proposed expenditure. |
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| The first thing that comes to mind is the knee-jerk reaction of let us get into spending money on a gun registry. |
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| Make it a call but make it an informed call and one you deliberate on and just is not a knee-jerk reaction to the moral outrage in the community. |
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| Goldwater, in short, was a politician of ideas, not knee-jerk reaction or pork-barrel plenitude. |
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| A teakettle whistles from the kitchen just as I feel the dry-heaves starting, the knee-jerk reaction to my anxiety attacks. |
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| This is the knee-jerk reaction common to all regimes that for half a century have held power in the region. |
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| Yet the fear of this technical underworld has provoked a knee-jerk reaction. |
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| This announcement seems to be more of a knee-jerk reaction than a considered response to a terrible problem. |
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| Do you think that was a feminist knee-jerk reaction, or do you think they misinterpreted the book? |
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| I ask the question actors should never ask, the taboo, but like some awful knee-jerk reaction it slips out. |
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| Think something all the way through rather than going with a stupid, knee-jerk reaction based on some half-baked beliefs. |
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| Shareholder suits are designed to be a final, desperation remedy, not a knee-jerk reaction. |
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| However, your knee-jerk reaction to my comments on your blog leaves little to be desired. |
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| Mention the word malaria or Dengue fever and the knee-jerk reaction is to fog and spray the entire area with deadly poisons. |
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| The knee-jerk reaction is to dismiss such training as faddish and of dubious value. |
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| It must be looked at in a more comprehensive way rather than a knee-jerk reaction to something which could be meaningful. |
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| He also said that warnings that the crystal meth addiction is an epidemic are exaggerated and a knee-jerk reaction. |
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| I think we need to be careful that we do not have a knee-jerk reaction to the broader issue of executive compensation. |
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| Perhaps what we're seeing is a knee-jerk reaction without an understanding of where things are going. |
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| This is about trying to identify and prevent crimes, not just a knee-jerk reaction to a problem. |
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| What we have seen over the last number of months from the government is a rather knee-jerk reaction to aviation security. |
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| Developing a knee-jerk reaction to a far from unsubstantiated problem would be much more damaging. |
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| The number certainly cannot be viewed as bullish by the trade and suggests a lower start for canola futures as a knee-jerk reaction. |
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| Unfortunately, because it was a knee-jerk reaction, hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent, but the problem was not resolved. |
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| That is a knee-jerk reaction that does not respond to the needs of the consumer. |
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| We do not seem to manage, once the police and courts are involved, to rise above the nationalistic knee-jerk reaction. |
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| We must get away from this knee-jerk reaction to hedge funds and private equity funds. |
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| That is why on the eve of the election in a knee-jerk reaction he made a desperate promise, but he made a promise nonetheless. |
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| It is true that the markets expect us to be delicate, but they do not expect a knee-jerk reaction either. |
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| Maybe that is true, but frankly, the plan was a knee-jerk reaction to get money somewhere and it ended up somewhere else. |
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| The knee-jerk reaction is to write him off as an idiot savant, a working-class hero with a world-class haircut who doesn't have two brain cells to rub together. |
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| This knee-jerk reaction and the comment about dogma do not make any sense. |
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| I hope Parliament, in amending this directive, will do so in the light of sound scientific advice, not as a knee-jerk reaction to tabloid newspaper scare stories. |
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| His obsessive knee-jerk reaction of jumping onto the country's retaliatory bandwagon without a by-your-leave demonstrates what an excuse for a leader we have. |
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| The government came out with a knee-jerk reaction in the budget saying that an individual could not deduct for tax purposes any interest expense for investments outside of Canada. |
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| There is always a danger of a knee-jerk reaction in these situations, and imposing lots of needless rules on companies going on perfectly well without them. |
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| It's just another knee-jerk reaction from sections of the media who need to fill endless hours of TV space and thousands of newspaper column inches. |
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| As a knee-jerk reaction that may sound wonderful to some individuals until they realize how much of our goods would be affected by that kind of trade sanction. |
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| One of the greatest challenges facing us in the European Union today is to ensure that we do not have a knee-jerk reaction to every horror or outrage. |
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| My knee-jerk reaction, based on the views of people whom I generally trust, is to support him, but that really is just an educated guess, not real knowledge. |
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| This was the line pursued at the time by the body politic and large sections of the media to justify a knee-jerk reaction and savage state repression. |
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| We have a knee-jerk reaction to major disasters. |
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| The passage contradicts the knee-jerk reaction which wants to quantify suffering. |
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| It does seem to be a knee-jerk reaction to slag off all politicians and call them a waste of space and money. |
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