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I'm not averse to a bit of leg-pulling, but deep down inside me I'm actually quite serious.

That said, he wouldn't be averse to you showing up in an Uma Thurman "Pulp Fiction" wig, or even suggesting a private costume party for two.

She was one of the few stay-at-home moms in Ramsey Hill and was famously averse to speaking well of herself or ill of anybody else.

In a rare admission for a president famously averse to expressing regret, he fully accepted responsibility for that failure.

The new journalist was told off by the editor-in-chief, for the readers were averse to the front page story he had written.

We're an old - fashioned firm, Mr Smith, but not hidebound. We're not averse to giving a man with ideas of his own some rope.

I am not averse to a dance party and a good meal after a week's hard work.

Adobe said it did not make silent automatic updates available previously because many users, especially at companies, were averse to them.

House prices are generally "sticky" on the way down, in part because people are averse to selling at a loss.

He agrees with Pastuszek's assessment that Chinese government officials are averse to the short-term benefits of such a mass influx.

None of the major religions is averse to business; each developed initially in a nascent market economy.

I am not averse to all things French, and indeed wear a French version of the Wellington boot, but I had a prior engagement.

Your acquaintances who are utterly averse to spiritual things, are not refined, ennobled, and elevated by the practice of the truth.

"(The Fed) will not be averse to keeping interest rates low for an extended period, " which would hurt the dollar, he added.

He seems to be averse to hard work.

Lady Catherine's never been averse to the truly humble.

This idiom satirizes those who profess to like or support something, but are averse to it in actual practice.

Misinterpretation will always exist. But I'm not averse to having my works being given multiple interpretations.

As a profession, we are busy, averse to conflict, and oriented toward individual autonomy more than toward organizational effectiveness.

Most boats are air conditioned, and one of the three restrooms on board ours included a "western toilet, " for those averse to squatting.

Ideal for: Kitchens with a pest problem, cooks that aren't ticklish and lovers not averse to hair in their food.

Japanese households have plenty of savings, but for years they have been averse to risk, keeping their savings in low-yielding yen.

He was also not averse to ranking members of Orascom voicing their political opinions during the protests.

After so much pain, many investors are becoming averse to stock trading altogether.

The authorities are not, however, averse to wealthy benefactors purchasing precious cultural items on behalf of the nation.

CONVIVIAL, and not averse to a drink, Nancy Wake could often be found cheering up a cocktail bar.

But it remains true, says Mr Roy, that the Brotherhood's back-to-basics ethos is averse to highbrow theology.

True freelancers are not averse to risk. With our independence comes more responsibility, more accountability for our lives.

Such economic populism may merely be a ploy to win over an electorate that has long been averse to the market.

In the 1990s America used to be regarded as excessively averse to risks and casualties.

But only if you're averse to wide open skies, dramatic landscapes, countless activities, fine wining and dining, and friendly locals.

The very picture of an upright Victorian gentleman, Doyle was not averse to fighting in the street when the mood took him.

He noted he's averse to protectionist policy of "buy American" but admits to feeling a patriotic duty to do so nonetheless.

Though Mattie is a stickler for the law, she's not averse to frontier justice if that's required to avenge her dad.

He was averse to revealing the sources of his information.

One of the film's most curious interpretations involves Richard Gere as a turn-of-the-20th-century rambling man averse to change.

'If he's averse to technology now, he probably always was, ' said Dr. Resnick.

By her own history, as a daughter of East Germany, Mrs Merkel is averse to division within Europe.

Jobs was congenitally averse to having on-off switches, which he deemed "inelegant. "

The rising states, he observed, are averse to the shared sovereignty implied by multilateralism.

Quite naturally, these managers are averse to depriving themselves of able subordinates.

Though a man whose business relies on hard data and evidence, Sorrell isn't averse to leaving some things to fate.

People who lived through the Great Depression were deeply averse to risk and were loath to buy stocks or keep too much money in one bank.

Many men in other societies like Japan and India dye their hair, too. But few places seem as averse to gray as mainland China.

Finance ministers are averse to debt and central banks even more so to monetising it for fear of becoming a tool of the government.

The result has been a government that is risk-averse to a fault.

The music by 2002 is harmless and quiet, though viewers pathologically averse to New Age will scramble for the audio control.

My parents are averse to our picnic plan; they don't approve of it.

But Mr Netanyahu is averse to embracing Kadima and its leader.

Persistently averse to sexual intercourse.

Investors these days are averse to risky emerging-market government debt.

'My mother was always averse to fresh produce.

He was averse to any change.

Regulators are averse to allowing western-style leveraged buy-outs.

Horseshoe bats are particularly averse to flying over open ground.

Women are not averse to lust, but are primarily occupied with pride, envy and anger.

I'm not averse to riches or profit, but not at the expense of the user.

Don't be averse to the unattractive side of the job, to cleaning up mucus and phlegm, or urine and excrement.

We're no longer averse to word problems, because we've redefined what a word problem is.

Most young children, even from cultures known for their spicy recipes, are averse to capsaicin.

I will keep it secret, I feel averse to telling it to someone.

averse to such noisy surroundings.

There is talk that Britain is becoming "Europeanised" , more averse to making war and keener on peacekeeping.

This is unusual in a market that has historically been averse to price rises.

I'm strongly averse to work late at night.

I'm not averse to killing people if that finishes it.

The minister is averse to flattery.

On the whole the party, like Japan itself, is conservative and averse to change.

We also find the people are more averse to losing than they are happy to gain.

One of the major tenets of behavioral economics is that people don't view gains and losses the same way because they are averse to losses.

The manager is averse to our suggestion.

I will keep it secret, I feel averse to telling itto someone.

I'm averse to flying. It's not that I don't have a backbone.

I am not averse to a good meal.

I'm not averse to keeking a pet dog.

But not every open-sourcer has proven so averse to filthy lucre.

Dennis kept bringing his teachings back to losses "The trader who is averse to losses is in the wrong business. "

Most human beings seem innately averse to change.

Now, speaking without any exaggeration, is your mother really so very much averse to this marriage?

I am averse to shopping down town because I dislike crowds.

That reset could take time, and although Beijing is not averse to some aggressive muscle-flexing, it can afford to wait, Ciorciari says.

She is averse to our plan.

To be averse to or express disapproval of something:

She is averse to come. Adverse