Blurting out words like "freedom" and "liberty" has become an almost reflex response for too many "free market" conservatives as they try and rationalise anything that happens in and around the climate change issue.
He criticised the ministry letter, saying it smacked of "the worst time of the 1980s food scandals when the ministry's reflex was to have cosy chats with industry rather than lay down the law".
Perhaps it is more a loss of control that Australia's fast bowler's have induced, bringing with it the unfamiliar spectacle of highly skilled professional sportsmen finding suddenly that they are unable to perform reflex actions with any degree of certainty.
(Or was that just the Moro reflex?) I didn't linger in the hospital – but no one can wait to get out of there these days, can they?
She was grunting, which is a sign of respiratory distress, and she had no suck reflex".
Rupert Murdoch's New York Post was predictably blunter, calling de Blasio a pro-Cuban communist, while the Washington Post got into hot water with a column suggesting "people with conventional views" in other states would have to "repress a gag reflex" when considering him because he was married to an African-American who used to be lesbian.
Once upon a time we were creatures that responded to existential threats presented by a predator with sudden bursts of adrenalin, the flight-or-fight reflex.
Daniel: It also made me realise that checking your phone or iPad has become something of a reflex.
A source said Scotland's higher Labour vote in 2010 was based on a "Brown bounce" - a combination of historical loyalties to Brown and a reflex response to the backlash against him in England.
This meddling reflex led Sanderson and her colleagues, the cables show, to try to torpedo Préval's PetroCaribe deal with Venezuela, to help block a minimum wage hike to $5 a day (winning $3 a day, instead), and to rubberstamp and pay for an election that they knew was flawed from the start.
I was, and I remain, opposed to MPs becoming prisoners of local caucuses and the parliamentary leadership being hamstrung - or even intimidated by "composite resolutions" which are drafted in haste and supported on a reflex.
