Sentence examples similar to target of aversion from inspiring English sources

After Republicans took control of the House in 2010, Ms. Jackson became a favored target of the new Republican majority's aversion to what it termed "job-killing regulations".

Mother and daughter existed in a "chasm of aversion".

It is a term of aversion, a gesture of estrangement.

Maybe it's my home-brewed form of aversion therapy.

The behavioral data are expressed in terms of aversion index.

Note: The parameter of aversion to inequality, γ = 0.8.

In contrast, T in the entropy model (an indicator of subject's degree of aversion to unpredictability) did not significantly correlate with AUC (p >.05), implying that risk aversion and aversion to lack of information are distinct psychological processes.

I for one am sceptical that we would ever have available an intervention capable of targeting aversions to the wicked rather than the good.

This is another recurring doubt that Harris has about biomedical interventions into moral decision-making: I for one am sceptical that we would ever have available an intervention capable of targeting aversions to the wicked rather than the good.

He also writes that he is 'sceptical that we would ever have available an intervention capable of targeting aversions to the wicked rather than the good' (p. 105), Harris is, evidently, afraid that we shall throw out the baby with bathwater (p. 105).

While Douglas is right when he claims 'there are some emotions such that a reduction in the degree to which an agent experiences those emotions would, under some circumstances, constitute a moral enhancement' 22 this is a very modest claim indeed, and I for one am sceptical that we would ever have available an intervention capable of targeting aversions to the wicked rather than the good.