As bureaucratic decision making became more risk averse, many large projects ground to a halt.

However, as SMEs were more risk averse, there was a greater need to ensure stability and good fundamentals.

As consumers, firms, and investors become more cautious and risk averse, the equity market rally of the second half of 2012 has crested.

The Muslim Brotherhood s leadership, for its part, usually takes a risk averse, gradualist approach to crisis management.

As electronic communications become part of everyday life for many people, there may be an overall decrease in risk tolerance early adopters of ICT may be less risk averse or more technically capable of dealing with the security consequences.

Moreover, in a risk off environment, when investors are risk averse or when equities and other risky assets are subject to market and or credit uncertainty, it may be better to hold negative yielding bonds than riskier and more volatile assets.

Lack of equity capital, in turn, made risk averse shareholders hire gamblers to manage their limited liability investment companies.

The theory does not say that markets cannot plummet if the news is bad, or if investors become risk averse.

If people are risk averse enough that increased fear of the future causes them to save more, rising global uncertainty will raise bond and stock prices, and lower interest rates and dividend and earnings yields.

Not surprisingly, those who adhere to such beliefs are more averse to redistribution and welfare, and evidence shows that in the US, those who express more anti minority points of view are also more averse to redistribution and more likely to have less sympathy for the poor.

Nevertheless, the crisis should abate somewhat, because the most risk averse institutions have by now sold their holdings of peripheral countries sovereign debt.

To be sure, China may have a strong tendency to create bubbles, partly because people in a fast growing economy become less risk averse.

In fact they would never have thought of themselves as closed and set in their ways, as slow to respond to new challenges, as small and risk averse.

Moreover, credit growth on both sides of the Atlantic will be restrained, as many financial institutions in the US and Europe maintain a risk averse stance toward lending.

Others indicated that there was concern that work in the WTO might be too cautious, too hesitant and too risk averse, and that this could have negative effects.

The crisis spread because the banking system was not sufficiently risk averse and in some cases even seemed to relish risk. Mortgage banks kept some claims on their books, but sold most of them to investment banks as mortgage backed securities.

But whoso is averse and disbelieveth ,

But whoso is averse and disbelieveth ,

Although it is difficult to know how much of this decline reflected higher demand for Treasury bonds from risk averse global investors, the Fed s policies undoubtedly deserve some of the credit.

Chinese leaders have been extremely risk averse in their forays into international financial affairs, and, on the eve of a leadership transition (expected to take place a year from now), no senior official dares to risk his political prospects by advocating bold and controversial action.

We talk about leaders being more energetic, more risk taking, more optimistic, more persuasive, and more empathetic than other people.

If you tell someone it will reduce their risk then they re more likely to take the risk.

The result will be more incentives to assume risk.

Executives in highly leveraged institutions should be paid more, because they bear more risk.

But, if more risk builds up through continued expansion of shadow credit, this risk buffer may become inadequate.

Obviously, the latter risk is more relevant in today s conditions.

Investors are piling on more risk at increasingly elevated prices.

Intransigent opposition by anti science, anti technology activists Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and a few other groups has spurred already risk averse regulators to adopt an overly cautious approach that has stalled approvals.

They can take on more risk running a more highly leveraged business with less shareholder capital.

The fiscal response tax cuts and spending increases has varied considerably, being somewhat more tepid in debt averse Europe than in the US and China.

Hundreds of millions more are at risk of becoming environmental refugees.

Hundreds of millions more were at risk of becoming environmental refugees.

Putin gained the upper hand early in the crisis with the annexation of Crimea. Now, in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region, he is shrewdly forcing a divided and risk averse West to choose between war and accommodation.

The Doha Round ought to profit from some of these fundamental forces that favor open trade and impede protectionism. Indeed, conventional wisdom holds that, during a depression, citizens become risk averse and will not support liberalization.

This approach implies that more can be done to reduce systemic risk, beyond reforming how risk is measured and capital buffers determined.

A return to normal risk assessment is also more difficult in Europe.

Moreover, different strains of cannabis pose more or less risk for psychosis.

In addition, new methodologies have been developed for more sophisticated risk control.

The final source of uncertainty is the corporate sector. So far this year, healthy companies have slowly been loosening their purse strings a notable departure from the risk averse behavior that has prevailed since the global financial crisis.

If we try to save money now, we risk spending much more later.

God verifies the truth by His words , though sinners be averse . '

God verifies the truth by His words , though sinners be averse . '

The risk in Iran is an ever more hostile regime armed with nuclear weapons.

And We gave them Our signs , and they remained averse to them .

And We gave them Our Signs , but they were averse to them .