Sentences with phrase «become averse»

According to the latest SCE Housing Survey, part of the Survey of Consumer Expectations (SCE) by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 72.3 percent of renters «prefer» or «strongly prefer» to own a home rather than rent one, and 55.9 percent view homeownership as «a good investment» — findings that dismiss a commonly held notion that they have become averse to homeownership as a result of societal shifts.

It's not unusual for cats to outgrow their litter and become averse to using the box they've been using for months.

Some cats may become averse to their litter box when something about the box becomes disagreeable.

It's important to wash the container thoroughly to remove as much odor as possible so that your kitty does not become averse to using her litter box due to a lingering smell.

Readers are seemingly becoming averse to these higher - priced books and, as a result, are buying trad pubbed books less often.

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Finally, the fourth conundrum is that as companies grow larger and management falls prey to the fallacy that it only exists to maximize shareholder short - term return on investment, companies become risk averse.

Conversations that were previously formalities are being drawn out longer and longer as lenders have become more risk averse.

As risk - averse as investors have become since the recession, a lot of people remain fixated on returns.

It's better to fail small and fail quickly than to become so risk - averse that you stifle innovation and fall short of revitalizing your brand experience.

For instance, «avoiding «big company people» isn't going to save you, because the self - same employees who are innovating and taking risks with you today are going to become risk averse and careful once they start failing — and sooner or later, they (and you) will fail,» she warns.

«Their courage can have a buoying effect on everyone else — but they too will become risk averse over time as they encounter failure,» she explains.

In other words, this kind of research comes with a lot of risk, and Pfizer, it seems, perhaps because of its track record, has become more risk - averse when it comes to neurological diseases.

Speculative inclinations can drive overvalued markets to even greater overvaluation, while risk - averse inclinations can drive undervalued markets to become even greater undervaluation.

This adjusts the risk / return dynamic in the marketplace and often leads to investors and traders becoming relatively less risk - averse.

«Recessions are caused by the build up of imbalances and some sort of event or policy change that causes investors, consumers, businesses and regulators to become more risk averse.»

To me, having participated in numerous credit comnitees, it is very clear that entrepreneus don't stop investing because they became more risk averse.

This is the first deal of its kind, and comes just as investors are becoming more risk - averse.

That means they have become more risk - averse, and more likely to judge countries and their policies harshly.

It is simply not in his character to spend huge (doesn't matter how hard he tries to sell us the idea that he is not averse to spending money), unless it has become absolutely, I mean ABSOLUTELY necessary to do so.

«But it's also due to young people generally becoming more risk - averse than they were.

At the best of times Whitehall is reluctant to relinquish control, and at a time of financial crisis departments are likely to become even more risk - averse.

The Lords economic affairs committee warns the ban is an example of how the government has become «excessively risk averse» when formulating policy, listening to the media too much and failing to make fully objective decisions.

We are becoming more risk averse in transferring technology from the laboratory to commercial application.

WATCH FOR: Becoming overly attached to desired outcomes and averse to less - than - best, which may cause you to miss the joy of unexpected experiences.

The days of men being averse to fashion have long gone, men are increasingly becoming fashion savvy and try to dress their very best at every occasion.

That voice, as thin and willowy as the man himself, seems almost incongruous for a man of such charisma and presence — even more so when it becomes clear that Spielberg, along with screenwriter Tony Kushner, has put together a portrait of Lincoln that is as averse to pulling punches as are his battle sequences.

They've become increasingly more risk - averse in recent years — just look at Street Fighter 5's PlayStation partnership — and despite the Switch's great start maybe they're thinking it's going to be a short - lived thing, a flash in the pan.

Walt Disney and Lucasfilm have become risk averse with new directors after a slew of hiring missteps.

The Telegraph's Robbie Collin, however, said The Winter Soldier ultimately fosters «disappointment that a film with a relatively spicy premise becomes, in the end, so risk - averse».

But as the budgets for blockbuster tentpoles have gotten larger and the projects more risk - averse (with Marvel Studios and its parent company, Walt Disney Pictures, as Exhibit A overlords of the trend) it's become much too easy to acclaim fleeting inspiration and shallow gesturing toward diversity and goodwill as some kind of apogee.

It is also important for the school to help pupils become more risk aware as opposed to risk averse and equip the citizens of tomorrow with the skills and knowledge they need to keep themselves (and others) safe.

As our schools become more feelings centered, risk averse, competition - free, and sedentary, they move further and further from the characteristic sensibilities of boys.»

Though perhaps influenced by the special circumstances ProComp created — it lifted a cap on annual salary increases that, due to our single salary schedule, became effective following the 13th year of service — the results refuted the stereotype of the change - averse senior teacher.

Along the way, they've also become risk - averse and are therefore unlikely to wager the approval of their ESSA plans, arduously crafted over many months, on a policy that may prove ephemeral.

While it is true that schools have both a legal and ethical duty to ensure the safety of pupils and staff, when it comes to shaping the behaviours and attitudes of the citizens of tomorrow, attention needs to be paid to encouraging children to become risk - aware and not risk - averse.

This is an approach from which you can gauge what safety issues might need to be overcome, not to encourage children to become risk averse.

It is important for the school to help pupils become more «risk aware» as opposed to «risk averse» and equip the citizens of tomorrow with the skills and knowledge they need to keep themselves and others safe.

RT @blytheti: How to help learners become complexity - seeking rather than complexity averse: practice!

Shatzkin's comments from the other day underscore this notion that publishers are becoming more risk averse as the market shifts.

Job losses, out of control mortgage payments, and being overextended are just a few reasons why people are walking away from debt in droves and becoming debt averse.

This adjusts the risk / return dynamic in the marketplace and often leads to investors and traders becoming relatively less risk - averse.

Buyers will also become smarter (read risk - averse) at least for a little while.

Mortgages cause people to become way more risk - averse, and less likely to do things like finding a better job, starting their own business, and investing, even though those options may help them to become financially better off.

If you're normally risk - averse I would prepay the mortgage, but if you are less risk averse you could certainly invest the excess and hope to get a better return (then using the proceeds from that to pay off a chunk of the house when the returns become negative relative to the interest).

There's psychological evidence that suggests it's human nature to become more risk averse after a series of losing trades and less risk averse after a series of winning trades, but that doesn't mean the risk of any one trade becomes more or less simply because you lost or won on your previous trade.

After you win a few trades you have a tendency to become over-confident... and I should stress that there's nothing inherently wrong with you if you do this or have done it; it's actually human nature to become less risk averse after winning a trade or multiple trades.

With little margin for profit, lenders have become even more risk - averse, so indicators of credit tightness such as the average FICO score have ticked up this year as rates have gone down.

Without that, a risk - averse strategy becomes a bond - only strategy.

Investors are becoming more risk averse ahead of three major central bank meetings this week.

The relationship between season - of - life and asset allocation used to be straightforward: as investors aged and became more risk - averse, they decreased their stock exposure and increased their bond holdings.