Sentence examples for seem averse from inspiring English sources

Unfortunately, unlike the makers of smoke detectors, toolmakers seem averse to designing handy snap-in compartments for those rectangular batteries.

She also suspects that El Skippito is a cheat-o: Why does he seem averse to doggy delights like sniffing behinds and drinking from the toilet?

Although these professors like to sit around and talk all day about things like string theory, they seem averse to answer the questions that plague the common man.

New Zealanders seemed averse to having their electoral system manipulated by Mr Dotcom's money.

He embraced all of the hand-shaking and barnstorming that Coakley seemed averse to.

For now the prime minister seems averse to further confrontation with the army.

Even Bill McKibben, the leader of 350.org, hasn't seemed averse to the idea of influencing the CEOs of those companies.

Bolton, by contrast, seems averse to compromise, and is apparently committed to the belief that the U.N. and international law undermine U.S. interests.

At least Mrs Merkel seems averse to harming the British pro-EU cause; Mr Steinbrück, who lauds the Franco-German-Polish triumvirate, shows no such benevolence.

For her troubles, she said, she got many sighs and apologies from officials who seemed averse to addressing the delicate politics and economics of United States-China relations.

As one who was often critical of him at the time, I well recall the pervasive sense that Mr. Mehta seemed averse to quiet playing.