Sentence examples for a reflex to from inspiring English sources

He doesn't believe in anything, a reflex to shield himself from pain -- a conceit, really.

Among baseball people it is a reflex to praise the little things.

But I feel like it's a reflex to say I drafted compulsively and it took a million years.

The odds of collisions go up if they do not share a reflex to move to one side.

I've been in business for years — for all but one of the years since I left college — and it was just a reflex to give him my name.

Without it you can govern as a reflex to an unpopular Conservative government but you can't lead a generation in the progressive way.

When they drooled in response to a sight or sound that was associated with food by mere happenstance, a "conditional reflex" (to a "conditional stimulus") had been created.

These two inputs can therefore switch the same population of motor cells from a simple reflex to a more complex, internally organized response.

This is a defensive reflex to a difficult topic of discussion -- and in few circles is it exhibited more regularly than among white conservatives.

In times like these, says Jean Tulard, a historian, "there is a nationalist reflex to return to the time when France was the strongest nation in Europe".

The pupillary reflex curves showed pupil diameter constricted due to a reflex response to the initial light in the first three or four fixations (Figure 3) and then gradually dilated to normal size.