Sentences with phrase «averse world»

The post-recession hangover of paranoia coupled with increased regulatory requirements have meant that in - house counsel often have a path beat to their door by those concerned about taking risks in an increasingly risk - averse world.

In our risk - averse world, it would be impolitic for IndyCar officials to strut around, boasting, «We're the deadliest form of racing in the world!»

Into the risk - averse worlds of corporate lawyers and bankers in the 1970s came a new generation of raiders, a mogul horde the likes of which had not been seen since the days when Jay Gould and other grandees of greed held sway.

Not exact matches

«There is no entity in the world that is more risk averse than a senior marketing person,» says Larry Chiagouris, a marketing professor at Pace University in New York.

Thanks to this former Quebecor, RBC and Ernst & Young executive's risk - averse philosophy, Desjardins ranked second on Bloomberg Markets» list of the world's strongest banks last June.

«The world is by no means averse to religion.

He is very risk averse when it comes to purchases unless he's a very young player or a proven world - class player... anything in between and he'll default to what he has, unless his hand is forced by way of injury.

Mourinho is not averse to making big, controversial decisions, so why not drop these two world - class players on their day, and give some youngsters a chance to prove what they can do.

In the span of a morning I'd gone from wanting to take on the world to being demoralized by an eleven - month - old averse to sleep.

There is also a bit of a suspicion that, although leaving the EU made a really good political rallying cry, very few mainstream politicians really wanted it to happen as nobody really knows what the consequences will be and politicians are naturally averse to real world consequences which can be directly attributed to their actions.

But cases in other regions of the world and previous periods in Pakistan's history suggest that political elites and institutions — especially in societies with strong patronage networks — are usually change - averse and bound by structural constraints.

His strategy of bringing a baseball bat to Albany to more or less blow up the establishment didn't sit terribly well in the risk - averse business world.

To highlight the differences in how men and women approach their financial commitments, research conducted last year by the Barclays Wealth Female Client Group showed that wealthy women, across the world, were less risk averse than men when it came to their investments.

He added: «The government should be bolder and less risk averse by tackling the criteria for ODA so that more funding goes to the world's poorest people and the poorest countries, and less to the European neighbourhood.

Zuk's third book, Sex on Six Legs: Lessons on Life, Love & Language From the Insect World, published in July, is a sweeping compendium of bizarre insects — overprotective earwig parents, sperm - scooping dragonflies, risk - averse wasps — whose complex behavior often bears an uncanny resemblance to our own.

The world was more dangerous in our evolutionary past, so it paid to be risk - averse and highly sensitive to threats, and if things were good, then the status quo was worth maintaining.

And yet free from the world of risk - averse TV and movies where commissioning editors discourage, or worse, interfere with creative freedom to stunt the output.

Our ongoing focus on using technology to connect to the world's markets and automate all aspects of the trading and settlement process, combined with our low - risk business model and risk - averse philosophy results in continued growth of our clients» equity.

After 9 years of managing Baupost, he decided to impart some of his investment wisdom on the world by writing Margin of Safety: Risk Averse Value Investing Strategies for the Thoughtful Investor.

In the world of stocks investing, we have three categories of investors namely; the risk takers, the risk averse and the in - between which is known as risk neutral.

Which reflects a similar two - tier attitude to risk: In the real world, investors remain risk - averse towards the majority of companies / stocks in the developed world, which face a world beset by surplus capacity & high costs, fragile & uncertain economic growth, an intractable welfare class & an over-stretched and disillusioned middle class, and governments over-burdened by massive debt & future entitlements.

But a lot of people in the animal welfare world were averse to terms like «customer service,» thinking the language of business reduces animals to a commodity and shelters» compassionate mission to a commercial transaction.

Now I'm not averse to the occasional tipple and in this part of the world that means Jack Daniels, so a trip to the distillery in Moore County was a great event, but somewhat ironic as this is a «dry» county where sales of alcohol are prohibited!

I honestly think the way to bring about a game like this is not to build a giant GTA world, but to start small, where budgets are less risk - averse.

• Downwell: Those averse to open - world titles and would much rather play platformers instead should turn to Downwell, a stylish vertical scroller from Moppin and Developer Digital.

Initially this was perhaps a heroically avant - garde stand against the irrationally net - averse, mid-noughties art world.

It's rare that bluechip artists gamble in internal institutional politics and rarer that they do so together, so it will be noticed by the typically risk - averse museum world.

He thinks he was mistaken to believe that painting would be enough, but Lewis was averse to art world schmoozing, or «verbal garbage,» as he termed it.

To be risk averse is good policy in my VALUE SYSTEM — and we always must admit that how to take risks — with climate damages or costs of mitigation / adaptation — is not science but world views.

To be risk averse is good policy in my VALUE SYSTEM — and we always must admit that how to take risks — with climate damages or costs of mitigation / adaptation — is not science but world views and risk aversion philosophy.

The tech world, barring Peter Thiel and cronies, was openly averse to Trump's harsh rhetoric about immigrants during the campaign.

Such exposure certainly provides the legal tech start - ups with plenty of «real world» testing and a chance to gain credibility in this risk - averse sector.

I'm focusing on large law firms, which are as hidebound and risk - averse as you're going to find in the business world, and where the whole business case for existence depends on strengthening the firm brand first, the lawyer brand second or lower.