Sentences with phrase «more skittish»

Popenoe suggests «people who cohabit may be more skittish of commitment and more likely to call it quits when problems arise.»

If your bank is more skittish or you make a larger transaction, your bank's fraud prevention department may contact you to confirm the transaction before allowing it to go through.

Furthermore, what if other complicating factors in your life — a low credit score, history of making claims, bad crime statistics in your neighborhood — made insurers even more skittish about covering you?

While industries including healthcare and finance have paved the way for implementing new technologies, the legal industry has been a bit more skittish, especially when it comes to cloud - based services.

(If anything, you'd think that House members would be more skittish about passing election - year bills; senators were given six - year terms precisely so their chamber didn't have to freak out over every little midterm.)

My two sweet boys and even my kitties have been a little more skittish and less than friendly with me lately.

I have noticed he is definitively more skittish.

Other more skittish dogs just need a tickle to get their attention.

For the more skittish, the length of treatment may be reduced.

She is now even more skittish and frightened of me than before.

While we have already placed one of the eleven dogs into adoption (he will be going to a family who had already looked to adopt him prior to American Greyhound claiming him), we do want to spend some extra time working with a few of the more skittish dogs that we received before placing them in loving homes.

As your dog's eyes begin to fail, poor eyesight makes him more skittish on the ramp since it is difficult to see the ramp's edge.

His Poodle friend was a bit more skittish.

However, there are many factors that can play into determining your risk tolerance, and investors who are both more skittish and more willing to do some DIY research into investments may find that they prefer a different approach.

Nothing would make me more skittish about my energy longs.

The debt levels are higher, which makes demand punk, and businessman more skittish to expand and hire.

Increased market volatility makes residential MBS buyers more skittish, and they demand a higher yield for bearing the negative optionality inherent in RMBS.

It makes us all more skittish, and obscures price signals.

Yet the later the hour grows for the bill's approval by the two governors, the more skittish its sponsors are growing about its chances of becoming law.

Indeed, this mirrors other data, which have found Americans more skittish about spending in the early months of 2018 in the aftermath of more robust purchasing at year's end.

These results suggest that rather than lowering the opportunity cost of having children, recessions create the economic uncertainty that makes those about to undertake breeding much more skittish and therefore more likely to postpone childbearing.

He stuck to his key economic message even when Layton's rise might have unnerved a more skittish campaigner.

Not exact matches

By shifting the risks away from banks and to asset managers, Gross argues that the risk of herd behavior that causes a liquidity event in markets has been shifted away from the professional investing class and to a more amateur, less - informed, skittish class of investor: the public.

But biotech investors are a skittish bunch — and if they sense more serious indications that regulations are forthcoming, expect a far less muted response.

More likely, she was just skittish about the fact that her husband, Joaquín Guzmán, is the C.E.O. of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, a man the Treasury Department recently described as the world's most powerful drug trafficker.

Keeping Giroud on this squad with the promise of substantial playing time... the offensive tactics of this squad is way too indirect and is much more reflective of a hold up play / cross in the box scheme that suits Giroud's skill - sets but can't continue if Wenger really wants Lacazette to be successful... without Sanchez on the pitch this offence is a little bit like a headless chicken, passing sideways, providing relatively poor service to undersized players and sub-par finishing... this isn't to suggest that Arsenal can't perform without Alexis but this offensive scheme is antiquated and ill - advised, especially considering our personnel (poor man's Barca)... if Arsenal doesn't want to pay the price to get topnotch players so we can press high and play all out attack, we would be better served by adopting a counterattack approach... unfortunately that would mean developing a far less skittish defensive group that could withstand the pressure and we all know that Wenger hasn't opted for that approach considering our defensive pickups in recent years and the lack of a «boss» in the midfield

I don't how many times I've seen a felon run to their embassy in movies or television series: more recently in the quacky and skittish British tele - drama By Any Means.

It is easy to see why the pursuit of science was a goal to be cherished and emphasized in this mix of motivations: there were many reasons to be skittish of the potential for conflict and colonialism, but little could be more noble than knowledge.

Everyone knows that this is the perfect time of year to use green but the jewel tone green is a hot trend right now and this pillow (with it's awesome gold zipper) is a great way to try out this trend if you are more of a neutral loving person and skittish about adding a little color.

But if you're a little skittish about your technological skills, then you might find Match to have more options than you are comfortable with.

And he has a real touch with wild horses, taming one skittish beast with little more than his soothing voice.

Rangy and skittish, Charley is more than a little coltish himself.

And then there is Tom (Cillian Murphy), a skittish banker who arrives last and without his wife, who he says is stuck at work and will arrive later which sounds more and more like a lie the more he repeats it.

More importantly, the once skittish transmission that would hunt and peck its way around the gear box seems to have found its groove and provides smooth shifts from first through sixth, even when under aggressive acceleration.

In short, the malleable, less skittish R8 is more enjoyable to drive.

The car redeems itself on broken pavement, where the Countryman gets skittish over ruts and manhole covers despite having an independent rear suspension that, on paper, is more advanced than the 500L's torsion beam.

Snow also is a foe; the Clubman lost traction and felt skittish in anything more than a light dusting.

It might be that people would get all skittish and stay on the sidelines or even sell some more, causing prices to fall further.

To be honest, it would have take a heck of a lot for me to leave E * Trade for either of the individual companies, but mergers always make me a bit skittish, and now would not even consider a move there for at least a year or more.

If there is some cash on the balance sheet I'd even give a bit more, say 1 pound for every 2 pounds of cash in the kitty (I'm a bit skittish because I don't know what management has been doing with the cash generated in the past couple of years or whether they like big yachts).

Two of my three cats were much more relaxed for the process, one is just skittish no matter what.

He is still skittish around new people and it takes patience for him to become comfortable around new people and new settings but to see him get braver and more confident each day is worth the effort!

Skittish or timid dogs grow more confident, and with confidence, become more outgoing, and affectionate.

Unfortunately my previous family didn't give me a lot of exposure to regular everyday things so lots of things make me a bit skittish but lots of new experiences are making me a lot more brave now.

Alternatively, is the kitten shy, more standoffish than his or her litter mates, fearful, skittish, or hiding?

Available for both dogs and cats, the Veterinary Diet line has choices for a wide variety of ailments, ranging from calming support for more stressed or skittish animals to a Hepatic blend made for animals with liver issues.

Newton while still skittish around most people is much more relaxed on the whole.

Tervurens vary from high energy to more mellow, from happy - go - lucky to nervous and skittish.

Would he revert to the skittish and fearful dog he was when I got him nearly a month ago, or be the more sociable creature he has become when he met the veterinary staff?

She has been through a lot and was very skittish but is really coming around and acting more and more like a confident little dog.