1. The electric-power industry is gun-shy about building more large plants.

2. Nor will her gun-shy family participate in any more research studies, even though the benefits to future generations could be enormous.

3. He's still gun-shy from his divorce.

4. Of course, gun-shy banks are only part of the lending problem.

5. But banks are so gun-shy now that no one would touch us.

6. On top of that, many investors were gun-shy about another Dennis comeback.

7. All of this has made us gun-shy about future supply predictions.

8. Markets should be relatively gun-shy heading into the end of the week in London due to the day's events in the yen.

9. Seen as gun-shy for having lost deals to more aggressive competitors before, the company's recently appointed chairman previously ran India's biggest private bank -- a good background for deal-making.

10. They became "gun-shy," says David Schwartz, the director of the Centre for Gaming Research at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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11. Have previous bad experiences left you gun-shy, or have you spotted some red flags along the way?

12. Asia saw the launch of about 60 hedge funds in 2009 but most start-ups were relatively small -- under $50 million -- after a disastrous year for the industry in 2008 kept investors gun-shy.

13. In his first fight against Jermain Taylor, Taylor was surprisingly gun-shy .

14. Everyone I talked to in the company seemed a little gun-shy, perhaps fearing that I was yet another snide reporter.

15. It would relieve a lot of stress from the hand-wringing gun-shy customer worried about getting it right because the story needs to be "shippable."

16. ''I think he blames himself for his failed marriage and is gun-shy about intimacy and the give-and-take of a relationship, '' Hanks says.

17. Getting a home-equity line of credit is one option, if you have plenty of equity and can coax a gun-shy bank into extending you the credit.