Sentence examples for excessive aversion from inspiring English sources
(There is, perhaps, an excessive aversion to combat and violence in these selections, as well as the more than 20 others — Street Fighter II notwithstanding — that Ms. Antonelli has said she would like to add to the collection).
Perhaps a more attractive version of the Diaz-Alejandro hypothesis assigns Argentina's relative decline to the bottlenecks in foreign trade (produced by excessive aversion to trade with other countries), the large fiscal imbalances (produced by an underestimation of the costs of inflation) and the instability that some of Peron's redistributive policies induced.
Dr. Chan does seem to have "been guided in her recent decisions by her experiences" with the 2003 outbreak of SARS — toward excessive risk aversion.
They are contingent liabilities against the foundation's balance-sheet, which in effect cost nothing except in some worst cases.One idea is to provide a guarantee to charter schools issuing bonds, helping other investors overcome what may be excessive risk aversion.
Excessive risk aversion is evident in the behavior of individual land managers, land management organizations, regulatory agencies that review land management decisions, and the general public and its agents in the media, courts and legislature.
Such an approach may gain relevance as regulators recently discussed that excessive risk aversion may not be in the best interest of patients and public health (Eichler et al., 2013) and there is a need to balance false positive and false negative decisions.
Of course that is due in part to the famed German aversion to excessive deficit spending, stemming from gut-level fear of a repeat of the hyperinflation of the 1920s.
These prohibitions tend to rule out derivatives, options and futures, all of which have been deemed to require excessive speculation about future events (those aversions meant that Islamic banks mostly came through the financial crisis in better shape than others, though their heavy exposure to the property sector meant that in the end they also felt the pinch).
The very aversion to high taxes and excessive spending that helped produce the prosperity may have been taken too far.
As is well known, returns to risky investments often appear excessive given what seem like plausible models of risk aversion (Mehra and Prescott 1985).
