Sentence examples similar to knee jerk solutions from inspiring English sources

Mr Kennedy claims that his party's success in the recent Romsey by-election, traditionally a safe Tory seat, shows that voters are not fooled by "knee-jerk solutions".

We should be careful not to rush into knee-jerk solutions, including over-hasty moves to change the social contract and approaches to sentences which may have the reverse effect to that intended.

Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia Director at Human Rights Watch, wrote in the Hindustan Times in August that "knee-jerk solutions like death penalty for rapists and lowering the age of a juvenile from 18 to 16 will not help end sexual violence against women".

Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, criticized Senate Republicans for "pushing fake, knee-jerk solutions that will do nothing to prevent mass shootings or terrorist attacks".

More typically, individuals engaged in digital work are scattered around the organisation and obtain their roles based on passion or a recruitment process that is focused on a knee-jerk solution to a recently identified gap.

But if Steele takes the hint and quits, it shouldn't try for another purely cosmetic, knee-jerk solution.

Likewise, financial incentives - the knee-jerk solution offered as a panacea by countless commentators and policymakers in the last seven years -- are alone insufficient to trigger improvement, just as offering that same beginner millions of dollars to play that concerto will do little to guarantee a better performance.

Hooray for knee jerk reactions!

OK, maybe not, it's probably a knee jerk reaction.

A knee jerk reaction to my anguish.

My knee jerking.