The report argues that knee-jerk responses to past tragedies have led to a defensive child protection system that tries to prevent mistakes by setting performance indicators and procedures for what needs to happen.
"If you put out ideas that are really thoughtful and thoroughly vetted, there's less of a likelihood that we will get an overreaction legislatively, or any other way, to jump toward knee-jerk solutions that are sub-optimal, " Paulson says.
And I think that it's important when we're talking about this issue to make sure that we don't just knee-jerk, use language that is inflammatory or in some fashion discourages the possibility of negotiation.
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The point to be made on the Clinton visit is that the knee-jerk impulse for negotiations above all inevitably brings more costs than its advocates foresee.
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In one rather smart move, Mr Duncan Smith managed both to distance himself from knee-jerk europhobia and to show that he was thinking hard about public services.
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Once in a fish's brain, this parasite pumps out powerful molecular signals, known as fibroblast growth factors, that cause the fish to shimmy, jerk and dart to the water's surface.
So we shouldn't be spooked by this notion that, well, is now the time to take seriously in an intelligent way, not in a knee-jerk way, the challenge of financial regulatory reform so that you don't have banks that are too big to fail and you're not putting taxpayers at risk and you're not putting the economy at risk -- now is the time to do it.
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Education union ATL Cymru said the "very disappointing" results should not lead to "knee-jerk reactions or quick fixes" that will "make matters worse".
That decision seems to be a knee-jerk reaction based on an emotional response to the spill, and made without a full appreciation of the consequences which will adversely impact tens of thousands of hard working people who are engaged in the industry.
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In one, he captures the experience of being from a "jerkwater" town: a village so small that steam-train crews had to "jerk" water up from streams or from people holding buckets along the tracks because there was no water tower from which to refill the engine.
Three, should there be any different style of policing, those are questions, they are not knee-jerk reactions because the one thing that I think a grown-up politician doesn't do is just come on the day after and say I've got all the answers because if so it would have been easy enough to do.
So, I think we should make an effort to have a real discussion and not just a knee-jerk reaction when some of us say that the comedy stage has no place for sexism, racism and homophobia.
Doctors now and women are really - they have a kind of a knee-jerk response to the big estrogen study that was conducted a couple of years ago, and estrogen comes off sounding like toxic waste - estrogen replacement therapy.
The same goes for the knee-jerk denunciations of the Watchmen prequels, too, or the knee-jerk hatred of the film adaptations of his work, for that matter.
Despite the obvious knee-jerk reaction regarding the Maps debacle, it's actually interesting that this particular scenario is yet another example of humans having extraordinarily short-term memories.
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Freely adapting Roald Dahl's 1970 children's book, Anderson creates an endearingly tactile fairy-tale thrift-shop universe, with quaintly painted backdrops, cotton balls for smoke, and a family of foxes who move in such deliberate fashion that, up close, you can see the hairs on their faces bristle and jerk.
We turned the acceleration on and the "jerk" down, so things would be a little less aggressive -- it also dawned on us that the table we were running it on might not have been a stable enough foundation, itself quaking during printing.
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Chief SIZER: We've just gone through our in-service training annually, and we had instructors who really talked about that, clueing officers in that disrespectful communication is often interpreted by minorities as racial bias when in fact the officer may be acting like a jerk, and maybe he or she routinely acts like a jerk.
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