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Yet Mr Ahmadinejad is not averse to giving his views on court cases.

As the title and subject of his previous novel Home Land suggest, Lipsyte isn't averse to giving state of the nation addresses.

Not that he was averse to giving direction himself: given authority to order the engineer to stop if he thought of a particularly striking scene or composition, he did just that while riding a mile long freight train in Nevada.

Luckily, most of the clinching teams still have had home-field advantage to play for, and managers are very averse to giving the appearance that they are goofing off in nigh-meaningless games.

"I believe in using the selvage rather than cutting it off, in allowing the fabrics to be what they are," Ms. Teng said, though she is not averse to giving her materials a boost from technology.

Mind you, his compatriot José Mourinho was not averse to giving earnest interviewers the bum's rush, so maybe the biting put-down is yet another area in which our belief that we lead the world is little more than a sad delusion.

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The Nobel committee has not been averse in the past to giving the prize to economists who have achieved popular notoriety, as its awards to Mr Friedman and, more recently, Joseph Stiglitz show.

For centuries it was part of the rich fishing grounds of West Cork's O'Driscoll clan, and the locals would not have been averse to the odd shipwreck giving them an opportunity for plunder.

"The ironic thing," said Schmitz of Public Allies, "is that you have donors who took major risks in their own fortunes, but are very risk averse when giving to charity.

Politicians, especially those as malleable as Romney, are inherently adverse to risky strategies, and especially averse to testing voters by giving them an accurate assessment of the costs of their favored policies.

There is, on the one hand, the city's artificiality botox, face lifts, lipo, the works—which tends to give certain age-averse Angelinos an animalistic look.

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