Sentence examples for aversion to accepting from inspiring English sources

We seem to have some sort of aversion to accepting that sexuality in teenagers is, in itself, is not disgusting or unnatural.

Feigning piety and a high-minded aversion to accepting the crown, he almost had me convinced that he would rather enter a monastery than take the reins of the kingdom.

She says the reasons, deeply personal and hard to put into words, are a combination of her relationship to God and her aversion to accepting what she sees as misplaced authority.

For example, risk aversion, or the reluctance of a person to accept a situation with an uncertain payoff rather than one with a more certain but potentially lower payoff, may be a barrier to accepting beneficial technology.

Longfellow, despite his aversion to public speaking, accepted an offer from Joshua Chamberlain to speak at his fiftieth reunion at Bowdoin College; he read the poem "Morituri Salutamus" so quietly that few could hear him.

Patients with an inherent risk aversion found it difficult to accept anything new and selected their treatment based on the lowest risk and the most predictable outcome.

Many of these studies were published by public health bodies with a strong aversion to the tobacco industry who did not want to accept that Snus could be part of the solution.

A person's degree of risk aversion can be measured as her willingness to pay (or to accept a lower expected utility) in order to avoid a risk.

Mildred is keenly aware of the historic role that they've taken on, and she's ready to accept it but she defers to her husband's aversion to the limelight.

Hamilton held an aversion to dueling, but as a man of honour he felt compelled to accept Burr's challenge.

These include the overconfidence, anchoring and stereotyping biases mentioned above, as well as other errors, including myopic loss aversion an unwillingness to accept short-term losses and the hindsight fallacy, which is the tendency to think that past events were predictable even though they weren't.