Sentence examples for knee-jerk move from inspiring English sources

Instead of the knee-jerk move of shifting second baseman Alfonso Soriano to the outfield, the Yankees should appreciate the value in having a second baseman with his power and tutor him to be better defensively.

Whenever equity prices have wobbled in late 2009 and early 2010 the response witnessed in the so-called fear gauge was nothing more than a Pavlovian knee-jerk move higher.

Stocks, which shed a chunk of the day's gains leading into the statement, made a knee-jerk move downward that briefly put the Dow in negative territory for the session before quickly swinging back above break-even.

I think Snyder has probably mellowed as an owner from his first few years when he was more into knee-jerk moves.

The Jets will not, he said, make knee-jerk moves to garner high-priced free agents the instant they become available.

He said there must be "no knee jerk moves" towards pay cuts, job cuts and privatisation".

The No. 1 seeded Thunder might not be panicking, but they are starting to think about it, writes Marc Stein on ESPN.com, and their knee-jerk strategic move to foul the bejabbers out of hot-shooting Omer Asik signals they are not true contenders, Fran Blinebury writes on NBA.com.

The UK's data watchdog has also spoken out against "knee-jerk reactions", saying moves could undermine consumer security.

After an unfortunate chlamydia infection and a subsequent flurry of knee-jerk federal regulatory moves in about 2000, ReproMed became the only sperm bank doing this work in the country.

In fact, after a knee-jerk reaction that could move markets around the globe the modest revaluation in the yuan is likely to be more of a blip than a blockbuster, since markets are already pricing in what may prove to be a more substantial change than the country's financial hierarchy will undertake.

Crucially, there was no knee-jerk condemnation – we'd moved far beyond that – but compassion and honest, subtle debate, and I only wish other morning phone-in (radio and TV) programmes could manage similar levels of, if you'll excuse me, sobriety: an impassioned and vital tale.