averseness

Calls for a no-fly zone have been dismissed in the past, as have other measures seen as having the potential to escalate the conflict; but we mustn’t forget that it is the west’s averseness to risk that the Assad regime and its backers in Moscow and Tehran thrive on.

Pratap Bhanu Mehta, the president of the Center for Policy Research, wrote in The Indian Express that Mr. Modi’s government had frittered away its honeymoon period on “an odd combination of trifles, bureaucratic cross hairs, alibis, risk averseness and a shadowy politics of stealth.”

Since Vietnam all media organizations had imbibed the conventional wisdom about the public’s apparent averseness to casualties.

But notwithstanding the averseness of the intended bridegroom, the project was not at once renounced; and Rupert's last letter to Sophie, written shortly before his death, contained definite proposals on the subject.

The truth is, the archbishop's own stiffness and averseness to comply with the court designs, advantaged his adversaries against him.