Example collocations logo

Reflex in sentence

62 examples of Reflex in a sentence

It's this brain which makes this reflex.
I watched this show until my puberty but still I found it to reflex many situations that worry us when we're teenagers although it was a family oriented show.
Getting his gag reflex under control, Benward tosses a worm on freckle-faced bully Adam Hicks (as Joe Guire).
You remember this famous "Conditioned Reflex" experiment from your school books, right?
Unfortunately the only gag was the reflex I experienced while watching.
It is so boring and pointless you feel the need the vomit all over the rich costumes and make-up, in an uncontrolled reflex of nausea and a deliberate attempt to give all that lifeless material some soul.
Unfunny with a sense of humor that is off four ways to Sunday this movie elicits the gag reflex not the laugh reflex.
This reflex might explain the presence of a woman at the helm of GM during its current damaging recall of defective cars, for example.
Our interactions with Muslims may be unconsciously influenced by this defensive reflex, and that may encourage equally defensive attitudes on their part.
The first reflex of the fundamentalists is to withdraw from the mainstream, to build around themselves a shell that is impervious to any logic other than their own.
The first reflex of too many leaders at such times is to stigmatize the victims a second time, by suggesting that they were asking for it.
So the search for scapegoats proceeds, not in earnest and with energy, but as a reflex, the death throes of the old ways of doing things.
More recently, Chirac’s foreign minister, Michel Barnier, chastised the Romanian President Traian Barescu for lacking a “European reflex,” because Barescu plans to align Romania with Anglo-Saxon liberal economic policies, and wants a special relationship with the US and UK to improve security in the Black Sea region.
This experience has created a Pavlovian reflex to “buy on dips” that can be broken only by many months or perhaps even years of negative experience.
This reflex has been strongly apparent in the past two months.
Even more insidious is the reflex even today in major Western media whereby attention is regularly directed to the appearance and sexuality of powerful women, especially those in politics.
This reflex has left Zimbabwe practically a journalism-free zone, with only the foreign press seeking to hold President Robert Mugabe to account.
To be sure, simply championing populism for its own sake – a Stalinist or New Left reflex – makes for bad art.
And past injustices will need to be put aside, so that the cycle of revenge and the automatic reflex in favor of immediate gain do not scuttle regional solutions to problems.
There simply was not enough hard evidence of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons, at least before the Ghouta massacre in August, to pressure Russia – either in the United Nations Security Council or the court of global opinion – to reconsider its reflex support of the regime.
An anybody-but-Sarkozy reflex may exist in some circles of French society, but, in order to prevail, a credible alternative is required.
But indulging the old political reflex of manipulating the exchange rate to create a competitive advantage will yield a short-term fix at best.
The British government’s first reflex was to reject any suggestion that the British rebate is open to discussion: it was justified in 1984, and it is justified today.
The charge of colonialism, meanwhile, is simply reflex: colonialism no longer exists.
Ireland, by far the biggest beneficiary of EU membership has demonstrated a powerful anti-European reflex, despite being hit early and hard by the crisis.
Or will personal factors dominate, with an “anyone but Sarkozy” reflex on one side, and a lack of confidence in the uncharismatic – and possibly unprepared – Hollande.
In some cases, a country’s knee-jerk austerity reflex stems from its external-debt burden and other pressures on public finances that limit spending.
Today, tariff and non-tariff barriers are in vogue again, partly because large bilateral trade imbalances, beyond a certain level, inevitably seem to trigger a reflex among some policymakers to shield domestic markets for the benefit of home producers and their employees (often regionally concentrated).
Further rapid increases in their share would fuel the nationalist reflex elsewhere, making any global climate agreement even harder to achieve.
Homais dilated in Amphytrionic pride, and the affecting thought of Bovary vaguely contributed to his pleasure by a kind of egotistic reflex upon himself.
Back