| It has won a reputation for being nimble and entrepreneurial, in comparison to its more risk-averse, bureaucratic competitors. |
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| A few of the less risk-averse residents jump at the opportunity of living along the river. |
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| She's also made it even harder for the next novelist to get a deal with an already skittish and risk-averse publishing industry. |
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| If you're really that risk-averse, you'd be better off plumping for a high-interest savings account. |
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| Electorates are generally risk-averse, upholding the status quo unless they are thoroughly convinced that change is needed. |
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| Australian voters are naturally very risk-averse, and will not rush headlong into a change of government. |
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| This Fund is suitable for a risk-averse investor who is seeking a low level of investment risk in a fixed-income investment solution. |
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| Rational salaried managers thus tend to be too risk-averse because they do not benefit from the upside of risk. |
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| We also had a risk-averse management plan that provided an extra buffer on top of the escapement targets, and some fishing did occur. |
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| We're seeing the emergence of risk-averse venture capitalists. |
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| Despite the rise of Facebook, the founder of Netscape says risk-averse public markets are hostile to technology startups. |
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| Improvising can certainly be unnerving, especially for politicians who are trained to be risk-averse. |
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| A culture of low trust and high control produces low autonomy, risk-averse, time-serving behaviour. |
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| What's more, risk-averse investors in the U.S. Treasury market are more prone to hedge their exposure to the dollar by selling greenbacks. |
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| The Credit system is too impaired, chastened investors and speculators too risk-averse, and the Bubble economy too maladjusted. |
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| Corporate funders, for example, tend to be more risk-averse, avoiding early-stage companies in favor of second-round deals. |
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| Since the 1980s, entrepreneurialism has had a bad name and too many Australians are risk-averse and just happy to keep working for the Man. |
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| Editors, like many managers, tend towards risk-averse behavior. |
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| A positive correlation may also arise in situations where investors become more risk-averse and uncertain about future stock returns. |
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| Isn't there something oxymoronic about a risk-averse venture capitalist? |
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| The risk-averse farmer selectively adopts technology that ensures positive net expected marginal benefits. |
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| Especially when Mayer chooses irreverence and candor over the collective blandness of risk-averse, American Idol-bred pop stars. |
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| Both types of bonds are tax exempt and particularly attractive to risk-averse investors due to the high likelihood that the issuers will repay their debts. |
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| At home, it is true that he has usually been a risk-averse leader who would rather finesse a tough choice than make it. |
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| Already undermined by financial institutions that were tightening credit standards, borrowers will now be faced with increasingly risk-averse mortgage lenders. |
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| This someone else, this alter ego who has arrived, is less adventurous, more risk-averse, costive with her time. |
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| For the risk-averse, other low-risk investments include National Savings and friendly society bonds. |
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| The network of agricultural equipment supply through which natural crowding-in might occur is risk-averse and prone to poor information flows. |
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| Drought can erase hard-won development gains and make land users risk-averse, inhibiting SLM investment. |
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| He is the champion of the risk-averse, and Prada has always slyly perverted the canons of impeccability that his brand embodies. |
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| In schools, public services and in our dealings with strangers, our rule-bound, box-ticking, risk-averse culture is designed to protect us from one another. |
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| There is also a worry that the leaders of some current and aspirant nuclear powers may be less risk-averse than their cold-war analogues. |
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| But we have to answer critics who would argue that had the industry been more risk-averse, it would not be verging on a bailout from taxpayers. |
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| Secondly, the countries focused on are some of the poorest and most challenging, often given a wide berth by more risk-averse investors. |
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| Women are more risk-averse, more collegial, more desirous of relationships, she says. |
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| For instance, a very risk-averse impartial observer may come arbitrarily close to the maximin criterion. |
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| People become risk-averse, politically risk-averse. |
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| Commercial salmon fisheries are now managed under a risk-averse policy, using a policy precautionary that is absolutely not used in managing salmon aquaculture. |
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| Moreover, if complaints are too easily substantiated, it could lead to police and other professionals adopting an excessively defensive, reactive and risk-averse approach to their duties. |
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| Being the clear industry leaders, the parties are seen as financially more solid than many of their smaller competitors and will therefore be preferred by risk-averse customers. |
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| This is an emotive subject, and human nature is usually risk-averse. |
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| Some also noted recruitment challenges with respect to board members due to increasing overburden, as well as the risk-averse tendencies and lack of representativeness of the boards in some community sector organizations. |
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| The pool of private companies with the resources and willingness to invest in overseas water projects has also shrunk, leaving the ones that remain more risk-averse. |
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| Changing a risk-averse culture is a challenge not only for Germany, but also for Europe as a whole if the EU is to maintain its position on the world market. |
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| Big Oil now acts more like a risk-averse bank than a wildcatter, following Wall Street dictates on cash flow instead of Texas traditions of risk-taking. |
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| In the case of the 3G auctions, the mania induced them to jump in with the madding crowd and ignore risk-averse, time tested investment disciplines. |
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| Alas, the sad truth is that the CIA, despite its Bourne Identity reputation, has become a timorous, risk-averse bureaucracy. |
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| The CIA, despite its cowboy image, is in fact in many ways a timorous, risk-averse bureaucracy. |
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| Yet an answer, or even a speculation, would have added insight and originality to this terrific but risk-averse debut. |
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| A risk-averse and bureaucratic environment, which leads to cotton wool kids, breaches children's rights and undermines healthy development. |
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| Huggins said that becoming risk-averse could work in the wrong way, and banks could eventually lose the confidence of customers. |
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| Rule-bound and risk-averse in so many ways, Germans regard driving at face-peeling speeds as an inalienable right. |
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| To bypass the majors, which are perceived as too risk-averse to invest in new bands – something Stennett disputes – many acts are now crowdfunding albums with fans' money. |
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| It seems strange that the occupation of banking, that in the past has had the reputation of being highly risk-averse, even to the point of dullness, should be the arena where such apparent recklessness has flourished. |
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| If they are risk-averse, too slow, or fail to consult others, their ego, rather than the needs of the charity and its people, are dominating their judgement. |
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| Two years after a cabinet packed with the younger Mubarak's cohorts replaced ministers of his father's risk-averse generation, the macroeconomic picture is brightening. |
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| Yet its mountain of money is run by risk-averse bureaucrats using an investment strategy not much more adventurous than stuffing bundles of yen under a futon. |
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| The unpredictability of funding over the long-term, and even year-to-year, means that projects tend to be smaller in scope and more risk-averse than they would be if funding was more predictable. |
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| We also created a specific bond fund for this group of investors, so that risk-averse investors also have the opportunity to invest in sustainable assets. |
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| In the vast majority of EU Member States, on the other hand, the prevailing attitude is one of risk-averse pessimism as a result of poor economic data and many heralded but unimplemented reforms. |
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| But when prices flatline, risk-averse bosses can justifiably sit on funds. |
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| The lesson is that, given the present state of affairs and lack of commercial viability in the poorest countries, the risk-averse international private sector could not be expected to play a key role at this stage. |
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| Known for being thrifty and risk-averse, Ilocanos were asked to invest in businesses rather than putting their money in the banks. |
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| Not only may downsizing deprive a company of its most innovative talent, the strategy might promote a risk-averse culture. |
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| In the past, Clooney has moved to quash rumours that he is flirting with the idea of becoming a politician – but this elegant, risk-averse wedding dress is a fashion statement worthy of a first lady. |
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| Some phlegmatic European officials whisper that their American counterparts have become overly risk-averse, believing that they can see off every threat that may arise. |
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| In a more risk-averse environment, the parlous state of public finances and the balance of payments deficit fuelled the loss of confidence on the financial markets. |
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| Rising amounts of bad debt make lenders more risk-averse. |
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| Capacitated non-Annex 1 countries may have greater access to projects precisely because the institutional capacity to handle these project hurdles would provide a more risk-averse investment environment. |
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| With investors continuing to be risk-averse, we believe that this is an opportune time to invest in gilts,' said Suresh Soni, chief executive officer of DWS Gilt Fund. |
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| Risk-averse oil companies are simply reluctant to spend money. |
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| A RISK-AVERSE culture in the Civil Service is inhibiting the Government's response to the current global financial crisis, outgoing trade minister Lord Jones warned yesterday. |
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