Sentence examples for knee-jerk reflex from inspiring English sources

Knee-jerk reflex and motor-neuron connection.

I'm not going to give a knee-jerk reflex reaction and say no way.

Among some politicians and newspaper writers, diplo-bashing is almost a knee-jerk reflex.

But proscription must always be a last resort, never a knee-jerk reflex.

That includes a certain knee-jerk reflex to use street signs for political statements on far-flung matters having little or nothing to do with New York.

The simplest form of this feedback system involves a reflex pathway (such as the knee-jerk reflex), in which sensory endings in muscles convey signals to the motor system through direct monosynaptic connections with motor neurons.

The corollary of the knee-jerk reflexes triggered by names, history and size is that marvelous pictures can go for modest prices.

A likelier outcome is that Al Gore wins the nomination -- thanks to name recognition, the front-loading of the primary schedule and the knee-jerk reflexes of the party machinery -- without becoming a more appealing candidate in the process.

Richard Bean's England People Very Nice took interesting risks with racial stereotypes and was ill rewarded with some knee-jerk reflexes from audiences, while another experiment – the digital relay of Helen Mirren's performance in Phèdre to cinemas around the country and the globe – paid off handsomely enough to guarantee further ventures.

It was shown during the 19th century that individuals executed on the guillotine might retain the knee jerk reflex for up to 20 minutes after decapitation.

It's a knee jerk reflex in people's vocabularies.