For once, then, the politics of gesture may be positive rather than negative.
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The downgrades "reflected challenges faced by the sector as a whole, rather than negative developments in idiosyncratic fundamental creditworthiness, " Fitch said.
Wait until you can approach from a positive rather than negative stance.
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The aversion to female leadership, then, comes from prejudice rather than negative experience with actual women, and can dissipate as more women attain positions of authority.
Most successful entrepreneurs are not fearless, but they know how to transform these fears into positive actions rather than negative ones, and they take every failure as a positive learning experience.
By restructuring mortgages so that homeowners have 5% equity in their properties rather than negative equity, Ocwen creates an incentive for homeowners to keep up with a more affordable payment schedule on a reduced principal.
If the goal is to have the Golden Geese use more of their Golden Eggs to solve societal ills, I would suggest that you will retain, attract, and get more eggs using this approach rather than negative reinforcement.
Soon, scanning for the positive rather than the negative will become second nature.
Imagine if these people were focused instead on having a positive impact on your Net Health rather than a negative impact on your Net Worth.
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Dr Williams has signalled he would like to build a new relationship, emphasising shared fundamental beliefs rather than "negative" secondary issues such as women clergy, our correspondent added.
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If that's the path the Palestinians are going to go along, I personally believe it has to be a decision that's taken in a positive sense, rather than a negative sense, not just because the two state solution is no longer working, but because this is something that Palestinians inherently want.
It says a lot about Australian attitudes on the subject that Ms Gillard's image-makers clearly saw the sit-down interview with Channel Nine as a plus rather than as a negative.
This was in part because she won people's trust by living among them -- but also because her project aimed to celebrate the positive aspects of their lifestyle rather than reinforce the negative stereotypes of squatters as wasters, tax dodgers or down-and-outs.
Thus, I am taking it as a small, temporary negative rather than the positive step that a genuine step toward fiscal prudence would be.
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Our national saving, consisting of personal saving, business saving, and government saving, has been inadequate, in part because the government saving component, measured by the budget balance, has been negative rather than positive.
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During its recent inquiry into the efficient delivery of public services, the committee discussed the merit of public bodies spending more money on trying to prevent, rather than deal with, negative social outcomes.
In hindsight, there is certainly stronger dynamic support for a yen negative move rather than a dollar positive one.
People who view themselves as unlovable find saying that they are so unbelievable that it strengthens their own negative view rather than reversing it.
The result Dr Rablen and Dr Oswald have come up with, though, suggests a positive effect associated with high status, rather than the absence of a negative effect, since unsuccessful nominees never know that they have been nominated.
The NBER uses key monthly indicators of economic output, including employment, industrial production, real personal income, and wholesale and retail sales - to determine when economic growth has turned negative, rather than relying solely on two quarterly declines in GDP.
Children are not prejudiced against classmates with disabilities when they begin school - suggesting that negative attitudes are learned rather than instinctive, say researchers.
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The Keynesian story goes like this- if there is collapse in private sector demand due to a failure of business confidence or some other economic shock, then rather than suffer unemployment and all the other negative consequences of recession it is possible for government through public spending to replace the lost demand and steer the economy back to full employment.
"We'd rather surprise somebody on the positive side than the negative side, " Garlington said.
The rise in borrowing costs could have a negative effect on the economy rather than the positive stimulus effect the Fed anticipated.
Done poorly, it could set the movement back ten years by propping up models that perpetuate and sustain the status quo rather than reimagining it, which would have significant negative ramifications.
So we are measuring the negative externalities against the market calculation, rather than all externalities against all externalities.
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The hostility that these children can later face suggested to researchers that negative feelings towards the disabled are acquired rather than already present when children begin school.
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That said, there is an expectation that the European Central Bank will start to penalise banks for holding money on deposit with it, rather than using that cash to make loans, by charging negative interest rates for deposits.
In career management, this means that, rather than being cynical and jumping to the downside or a negative view of what is happening, find a way to assume there is a positive and think about how you can build on the opportunity.
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But low rates are having a negative effect on people trying to save money rather than borrow or invest it.
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