It's not even as organised a body as ASEAN, which is itself notorious for its loosey-goosiness because it contains politically juxtaposed but conflict-averse countries like Thailand and Burma.
Chancellor Angela Merkel's government and the opposition have been cautious on Syria, anxious in a war-averse country not to have a military conflict become part of the campaign for elections on Sept. 22.
The guest workers quickly became the largest group of foreign blue-collar workers in an otherwise immigration-averse country, filling the so-called three-K jobs (kitsui, kitanai, kiken — hard, dirty and dangerous).
But, as researchers find out more about the multitude of viruses and bacteria that live in human blood, and thus discover new things to worry about, it is likely that the idea of removing microbes completely will gain appeal in increasingly risk-averse rich countries.
But he cautioned there could still be a domino effect if investors become more risk-averse toward countries that are considered economically fragile for reasons that have nothing to do with Greece.
But he cautioned there could be domino effects if investors become more risk-averse toward countries that are considered fragile for reasons that have nothing to do with Greece.
The US, a new survey reminds us, is surely the most holiday-averse industrial country on earth.
Once lambasted as old-fashioned and risk-averse, the country's banks have proved to be the tortoises to America's hares.
Doing business with countries averse, or even hostile to American interests is not smart.
Meanwhile, a Pakistan that is crucial to our finding our way out of that morass is in a disarray aggravated, if not entirely caused, by ham-handed American interventions in yet another Islamic country averse to our dictation.
Although legislators in this country are averse to anything related to quotas, we could emulate countries like Spain, Austria and Germany, where political parties have created internal benchmarks to ensure that more women run for office.
