He argued that ... an electron with negative energy moves in an external field as though it carries a positive charge.

2. Notes that the effects on the budget of inflation and currency fluctuations can be both positive and negative

The outlook was negative.

The test came back negative.

His reply was negative.

His answer was negative.

Many of these markets now face slowdown or even negative growth. Moreover, Western European companies have invested on a previously unimaginable scale.

Do you see foreign investment and acquisitions in America as a positive development or a potential peril?

Average temperature is in January and in July.

Profits can be made when energy is rationed or subsidized, but only within an economy operating at lower, or even negative, growth rates.

He was very positive, says Abbott.

Tom has tested positive for HIV.

The answer to the first question is almost certainly no.

Volatile stock market, getting negative feedback that's also immediate.

The net social contribution of all of this innovation was negative.

The answer is that they may have done both.

If we take a worldwide perspective, it clearly did.

I took a pregnancy test, but it was negative.

A recent Financial Times Harris poll in the US, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, and Spain found people nearly three times more likely to say that globalization is negative than positive.

This is liable to be reinforced by any negative experiences that Muslims may suffer themselves.

And remember the effect of this approach on growth was negative.

On the downside, this may mean increased prices for imported goods and services.

As long as US assets were attractive to residents of surplus countries (or there was an acceptable chain of investments from surplus countries that ended in the US), these accumulations of reserves were sustainable.

There is a cry for greater transparency in the way in which South Sudan is represented, positive or not

China s demographic trends hold several adverse implications for its economy.

In the imperfect world of politics, this middle ground would be a positive outcome.

Coming as a positive surprise to the markets, it would reverse their mood.

Tom just found out today that he is HIV positive.

But the year was far from entirely positive for the band.

Getting seed and fertilizer to smallholder farmers at highly subsidized prices (or even free in some cases) will make a lasting difference. Not only will food yields rise in the short term, but farm households will use their higher incomes and better health to accumulate all sorts of assets cash balances, soil nutrients, farm animals, and their children s health and education.

Getting seed and fertilizer to smallholder farmers at highly subsidized prices (or even free in some cases) will make a lasting difference.

Its trade balance would turn negative, and there would be widespread unemployment.

The US Treasury Department wasted valuable time in 2008 by not using the funds provided by Congress to deal with those housing market problems.

The UN s false alarms also have had more immediate negative effects.

In the US, reviving the credit markets requires stopping the mortgage defaults driven by negative equity.

Hishamah thinks that while the idea has its merits, it has its flaws, too

It would also send a positive European signal for the post war reconstruction in the Balkans.

The end of the civil war was an unambiguously positive development for Sri Lanka.

But one positive recent development is the creation of stronger public institutions.

You can only HIV by having unprotected sex with a positive person.

The role of the techno polity is to steer the world toward positive outcomes.

Indeed, countries from Singapore to Russia are running large surpluses.

This would be a negative as it would create a demand for greater deforestation, even if indirectly.

While some jobs moved abroad, the net effect was still greatly positive.

In the budget this is paid for by the favorable effect of devaluation on government oil revenues.