Sentence examples for that reflex from inspiring English sources

For a show sold on its innovative use of state-of-the-art technology, it turns out that Reflex (Saturday, 6.15pm, BBC1) is pleasingly old-fashioned.

In my own life, that reflex would have meant closing many of the books I found most fascinating, or succumbing to the general melancholy of my parents.

In caesarean sections, women can die when the acid accumulating in their stomach runs up the oesophagus and then enters the lungs because that reflex has been knocked out by anaesthetic.

Sanchez got his latest chance to aggravate that reflex Monday night in the Jets' loss to Houston, which was just bad enough to keep his quarterback seat toasty, Johnette Howard writes on ESPN.com.

If the old mental image — hyper-salty (and sometimes rancid) pellets of microboned fish strewn on top of a pizza — was the one that caused armies of schoolchildren to wrinkle their noses, that reflex began to fade away in 1999 or so.

Kateri Carmola, a professor at Middlebury College in Vermont who researches the use of private security companies, said that it was common for countries to hire contractors for military training, but that it appeared that Reflex Responses had more ambitious goals both in the U.A.E. and elsewhere.

A recent article in Military Review, a magazine published every other month by the Army, warned that reflex-quick killing can be a psychological time bomb.

Be aware, too, that reflexes slow with advancing age, a problem greatly worsened by alcohol for anyone who tries to drive soon after drinking even a small amount.

This signifies, for instance, that reflexes are not goal directed, are not subject to learning and do not adjust to future states in a prospective fashion [14].

It was suggested that this reflex termination of assist and downregulation of EAdi is a vagally mediated reflex sensitive to lung stretch [ 25].

"Everybody assumed that [jump reflex] would be the first thing," says Dickinson.