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In the heat of the moment.
Overwhelmed by what is happening in the moment.
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How does one react in the heat of battle?
"But I don't know how someone will react in the heat of the battle.
"Often, people react in the heat of the moment," said Kuldeep Singh, an officer at the Defence Colony police station.
"People are not going to react the way they think they're going to react in the heat of the moment," Mr. Phillips said.
Even though they were happy enough sacking Quique Sánchez Flores at 4 24am, puppet president Agustín Morera pledged he wouldn't react "in the heat of the moment", insisting "all decisions are agreed by the board".
Their analysis, however, also includes the broad caveat that it is impossible to know the internal thinking of the senior Iranian leadership, and is informed by the awareness that even the most detailed war games cannot predict how nations and their leaders will react in the heat of conflict.
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"They did not want to be seen to be reacting in the heat of the crisis," Mr. Laulan continued.
The rationale for the slur — inferred in Stern's statement — is that Bryant, the ultimate competitor, was simply reacting in the heat of the moment.
"I understand that Kim was very disappointed to have lost, and she reacted in the heat of the moment just after the match," she said.
After deleting her tweet, Curry explained that she'd reacted "in the heat of the moment".
Nothing good can ever come from reacting in the heat of the moment.
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