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You could tell I was not averse to rubbing his nose in this thing. He was polite to me, to this day, Joel does not remember that phone call, and I guess I don’t blame him. – Martin Cooper	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I'm not averse to having a chat on the way around, it's fine. It probably keeps both of us a little loose, but you can tell there's moments when to talk, and moments not to. And that was the case today as well. – Rory McIlroy	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I’m not averse to seeing how they’re doing and where they’re at, but it’s not something that I’m, like I said the other day, refreshing my feed daily. – Steve Nash	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
At some point, Putin, who has long been averse to any kind of domestic political instability, might fear the reaction from the elite and from the mass public, and begin to look for a way out of this situation, but we're not there yet, it could take a while before we get there. – Timothy Frye	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Truth be told the U.S. response was largely shaped by the disaster of the withdrawal from Afghanistan, the administration approached the crisis in Ukraine with an incremental, risk-averse response. – James Jay	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If you look at Justice Stephen Breyer, Justice Stephen Breyer's been clear that Justice Stephen Breyer is very much averse to any public perception or beholden to either political party. – Elie Honig	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The question is not whether there is anything United States can do. The question is whether or not United States is willing and able to do them, we could come up with any number of creative, sometimes very tough-minded ideas, that the administration could embrace. The question is will they, and so far it seems to be they're highly risk averse even in the face of this intensified conflict. – Aaron David Miller	Found on CNN 3 years ago
If anyone has made money in this environment, it is by being risk averse quite quickly, to some extent, there was a very gradual response to all the information that was coming out of China. So we went risk averse from the end of February and we still are. – Adrian Lee	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Given the consequences – someone's vote being lost, the system not fairly representing the voices in this country – we should be planning in a very risk-averse way. – Myrna Perez	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Older black voters tend to be more pragmatic, wanting to protect gains that have been realized to date, younger voters tend to be more ideological and open to disruption and are less risk-averse. – Theodore Johnson	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Don't be so risk averse that you don't fly. – Charlie Duke	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Investors are increasingly becoming risk-averse and shifting to safe-haven defensive shares from cyclical stocks. – Nobuhiko Kuramochi	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The best chief compliance officers have successfully mitigated risk for a living, and they tend to be relatively risk-averse when thinking about their careers, to find a person who has the skill set and is also willing to take the risk to join a cryptocurrency firm, it's tough. – Scott Fletcher	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
With Trump picking fights on multiple fronts and no sides showing any willingness to back down, we may have to get used to this risk-averse environment in the near-term. – Craig Erlam	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We saw some short-covering on value stocks the day before, but the market is still risk averse. – Takuya Takahashi	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Investors took profits on stocks such as financials, which gained recently on rising U.S. yields, they are risk averse now, and they want to secure profits before they see the outcome of G20 meeting. – Nobuhiko Kuramochi	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
If the concept works in reality it's going to have a lot of potential, but vehicle manufacturers are always very risk-averse, so the biggest challenge may be getting one to sign up to it. – Pavan Potluri	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
We have been and will remain relatively risk-averse while this correction period runs its course, brexit may extend that period of risk aversion, but we will continue to follow our investment process of selecting quality companies and assets with healthy upside potential growth. – Alan Gayle	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
I am averse to that idea. – Philippine Foreign Minister Perfecto Yasay	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
On its face, it is hard to believe he’d be improving with a demographic group that has been so averse to his style, his denigrating language, but I think people may have gotten used to Trump, he’s not as outrageous as he used to be. – Randall Miller	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This is a risk-averse president who sets red lines he doesn’t enforce, there’s not a lot of inclination for heroic initiatives in what’s left. – Aaron David Miller	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
He is going to be hammered -- and he already is on the campaign trail by Republicans who argue, 'See, Mr. President, you identified this as a JV organization, you are risk averse. What if this had been an American aircraft? – Aaron David Miller	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The figure shows that foreign investors were extremely risk-averse, if the market can confirm that profit growth is intact for Japanese companies at their mid-year earnings results in October, selling by foreigners will likely pause. – Seiichi Miura	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Taxes are going up, under almost any administration. I'm not averse to it because I believe that we've got to get our fiscal house in order and our economy back on track . . . I think those most able to pay the higher tax ought to probably pay a larger share. – Bill E Ford	added by Scott Murphy 8 years ago

You could tell I was not averse to rubbing his nose in this thing. He was polite to me, to this day, Joel does not remember that phone call, and I guess I don’t blame him.

– Martin Cooper

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I'm not averse to having a chat on the way around, it's fine. It probably keeps both of us a little loose, but you can tell there's moments when to talk, and moments not to. And that was the case today as well.

– Rory McIlroy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m not averse to seeing how they’re doing and where they’re at, but it’s not something that I’m, like I said the other day, refreshing my feed daily.

– Steve Nash

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

At some point, Putin, who has long been averse to any kind of domestic political instability, might fear the reaction from the elite and from the mass public, and begin to look for a way out of this situation, but we're not there yet, it could take a while before we get there.

– Timothy Frye

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Truth be told the U.S. response was largely shaped by the disaster of the withdrawal from Afghanistan, the administration approached the crisis in Ukraine with an incremental, risk-averse response.

– James Jay

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If you look at Justice Stephen Breyer, Justice Stephen Breyer's been clear that Justice Stephen Breyer is very much averse to any public perception or beholden to either political party.

– Elie Honig

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The question is not whether there is anything United States can do. The question is whether or not United States is willing and able to do them, we could come up with any number of creative, sometimes very tough-minded ideas, that the administration could embrace. The question is will they, and so far it seems to be they're highly risk averse even in the face of this intensified conflict.

– Aaron David Miller

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If anyone has made money in this environment, it is by being risk averse quite quickly, to some extent, there was a very gradual response to all the information that was coming out of China. So we went risk averse from the end of February and we still are.

– Adrian Lee

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Given the consequences – someone's vote being lost, the system not fairly representing the voices in this country – we should be planning in a very risk-averse way.

– Myrna Perez

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Older black voters tend to be more pragmatic, wanting to protect gains that have been realized to date, younger voters tend to be more ideological and open to disruption and are less risk-averse.

– Theodore Johnson

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Don't be so risk averse that you don't fly.

– Charlie Duke

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Investors are increasingly becoming risk-averse and shifting to safe-haven defensive shares from cyclical stocks.

– Nobuhiko Kuramochi

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The best chief compliance officers have successfully mitigated risk for a living, and they tend to be relatively risk-averse when thinking about their careers, to find a person who has the skill set and is also willing to take the risk to join a cryptocurrency firm, it's tough.

– Scott Fletcher

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

With Trump picking fights on multiple fronts and no sides showing any willingness to back down, we may have to get used to this risk-averse environment in the near-term.

– Craig Erlam

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We saw some short-covering on value stocks the day before, but the market is still risk averse.

– Takuya Takahashi

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Investors took profits on stocks such as financials, which gained recently on rising U.S. yields, they are risk averse now, and they want to secure profits before they see the outcome of G20 meeting.

– Nobuhiko Kuramochi

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

If the concept works in reality it's going to have a lot of potential, but vehicle manufacturers are always very risk-averse, so the biggest challenge may be getting one to sign up to it.

– Pavan Potluri

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We have been and will remain relatively risk-averse while this correction period runs its course, brexit may extend that period of risk aversion, but we will continue to follow our investment process of selecting quality companies and assets with healthy upside potential growth.

– Alan Gayle

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I am averse to that idea.

– Philippine Foreign Minister Perfecto Yasay

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

On its face, it is hard to believe he’d be improving with a demographic group that has been so averse to his style, his denigrating language, but I think people may have gotten used to Trump, he’s not as outrageous as he used to be.

– Randall Miller

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This is a risk-averse president who sets red lines he doesn’t enforce, there’s not a lot of inclination for heroic initiatives in what’s left.

– Aaron David Miller

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

He is going to be hammered -- and he already is on the campaign trail by Republicans who argue, 'See, Mr. President, you identified this as a JV organization, you are risk averse. What if this had been an American aircraft?

– Aaron David Miller

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The figure shows that foreign investors were extremely risk-averse, if the market can confirm that profit growth is intact for Japanese companies at their mid-year earnings results in October, selling by foreigners will likely pause.

– Seiichi Miura

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Taxes are going up, under almost any administration. I'm not averse to it because I believe that we've got to get our fiscal house in order and our economy back on track . . . I think those most able to pay the higher tax ought to probably pay a larger share.

– Bill E Ford

added by Scott Murphy
8 years ago

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