There will only be a single jerk , and they will gape ,

There will only be a single jerk , and they will gape ,

The dollar s strength reflects the knee jerk reaction of investors rushing into US treasuries as a safe haven.

So the rich world will, in a knee jerk response, erect ever higher barriers to stem the human tide.

In the short run, then, a US Treasury market crisis might lead to some knee jerk appreciation of the dollar.

That makes him a jerk, and presumably we will soon find out whether he is also a rapist according to Swedish law.

Want to kill that cyclist on the way to work, and string up your cousin 'cause she's such a jerk. Oh, dear.

The Lebanese front may ignite if Hezbollah seeks to avenge Mughniyah s death, or simply as a result of a knee jerk reaction to a provocation, as in 2006.

It is also emblematic of the knee jerk reaction that often obfuscates the pros and cons of capital controls.

So to remind you of physics, you have position, derivative, velocity, then acceleration, and then comes jerk and then comes snap.

The NTC has preserved much of the institutional paralysis and knee jerk behavior typical of Colonel Muammar al Qaddafi s overthrown regime.

This is plain to see today, and it resulted in Obama s knee jerk imposition of a moratorium on deepwater drilling permits and suspension of existing projects in the Gulf of Mexico.

If today s globalization continues to widen income gaps, the waves of migration will grow. So the rich world will, in a knee jerk response, erect ever higher barriers to stem the human tide.

I do not apologize for rejecting knee jerk calls for Russia s expulsion from the G 8, or for EU Russia or NATO Russia relations to be broken.

A Kick Off for Peace?

Sadly, equally as predictable are the knee jerk reactions of certain Western blogospheres, who are often quick to condemn a whole people for the actions of their leaders (whilst simultaneously forgetting the errors of their own governments).

PS Don't get off! Don't get off! Don't get off!

Borrow a lot of money, pay it off, pay it off, pay it off, get down to near zero, and bang! World War I.

A cooling off period is necessary.

A fork fell off the table.

gave a little and held off ?

gave a little and held off ?

Government support for biofuel is only one example of a knee jerk green policy that creates lucrative opportunities for a self interested group of businesses but does very little to help the planet. Consider the financial support afforded early generation renewable energy companies.

Instead, we had taken first steps together, past our knee jerk reactions, to the ubuntu place, which is the only place where solutions to our most intractable seeming problems will be found.

If we don't take action, we just leave ourselves open to have someone else jerk the strings that tie us to slavery in the products we buy, and in our government policies.

He went off like a light bulb.

I'm taking a couple of days off.

Sami went off to a weekend conference.

Sami took a pillow off the bed.

I'd like you to put this kind of knee jerk reaction in the context of what you would have thought if you had found your girl playing sudoku or your boy reading Shakespeare.

He stated that he (i.e., the German) was headed off ... seen off ... and ... written off .

I'd like you to put this kind of knee jerk reaction in the context of what you would have thought if you had found your girl playing sudoku or your boy reading Shakespeare. Right?

It's a branching off from the human form.

(a) The establishment of off the books accounts

The garbage can gave off a bad smell.

The boss gave us all a day off.

As a result, the public is turned off.

A tall man went off from there in a hurry.

Master control off. The hell with it. Way off.

And if tempers are still too high, then they send someone off to visit some relatives as a cooling off period.

Then on, and then off a 30th of a second, there.

Situation in Aleppo is neither a surprise, nor a one off.

That cat needs help to climb off a table.

Switching off a TV that no one is watching.

There is a trade off between competition and stability.