Smaller parties might be leery of striking deals if the result could be portrayed as "a coalition of the losers".
The officers were expected to figure out how to interact with gang members and residents long leery of the police, and turn in high arrest numbers while receiving little guidance.
Perhaps this timidity stems from the intense scrutiny of their widely held shares, making them leery about paying too much for foreign acquisitions.
With a banking system leery of derivatives and relatively isolated from the rest of the world, Italy did not suffer disaster of the sort that brought financial institutions crashing to the ground in America and Britain.
Europe's banks, laden with bad debts and forced by new prudential rules to hold more capital against corporate loans, will remain leery of fiddly, risky loans to SMEs.Small firms' woes have not escaped detection.
The high prices of recent years are partly a legacy of that glut, insofar as OPEC, still leery of over-investment, allowed its cushion of spare capacity to dwindle to almost nothing, heightening supply concerns.Unfortunately for oil consumers, OPEC has little incentive to expand that cushion in the short term.
It is full of such cheery stories on agricultural biotechnology as "Starving Africans leery of GM food".Greenpeace has now extended its presence in China from its headquarters in Hong Kong to an office in Beijing.
Bond yields in Italy and Spain have already plunged in recent weeks, in anticipation of the ECB's action, as investors have become leery of betting against the central bank (see article).
The most successful emerging economies have built up huge stashes of foreign currency; many are leery of depending too much on foreign borrowing.
We can see that now in the seafood industry; the FDA has approved the catch as safe, and yesterday the last affected fisheries were reopened, but fishermen and restaurateurs say that diners are still leery.
That way you will also put paid to all those tiresome (and potentially dangerous) offers of pre-approved credit cards.Be especially leery of e-mail messages purporting to be from banks, stores or government agencies that ask for personal information.
