Sentence examples for A firm negative from inspiring English sources

The answer is a firm negative.

"Do you believe in reincarnation?" he asks his big brother hopefully, and on receiving a firm negative in response, "stopped listening to what Alex was saying and wrote his name using risotto to stop himself crying".

Her request was met with a firm negative.

By using a LAL assay (see Methods), we have obtained a firm negative results (<0.125 EU/ml) on the presence of a significant level of LPS in our [BF/S+L/Ep] extract fraction.

In our investigation we found the expression of FOXG1 strikingly in contrast with the expression of MECP2 in the brain, but we could not get firm negative correlation for this observation of discordance in expression.

Similarly, the specificity or negative predictive value (NPV) is the probability that a firm has a negative outcome given that they have a negative test result.

Last month, Fitch, a credit-rating agency, downgraded the outlook for the triple-A rated firm to "negative", citing Mr Buffett's age as the main reason.

We exploit plausibly exogenous geographical variation in the reduction in domestic demand caused by the Great Recession in Spain to document the existence of a robust, within-firm negative causal relationship between demand-driven changes in domestic sales and export flows.

"I'm a firm believer in negative space, though I don't exercise that belief enough.

As a benchmark, Table 11 shows the (biased) OLS estimates for the three countries, which reveals the same patterns as for micro firms: negative correlations in Spain and positive correlations in France and the UK.

A negative correlation implies that a positive shock to a firm remaining active has a negative impact on the probability of a male worker being permanently laid off.