Sentence examples for a negative choice from inspiring English sources

"Many voters see this election as a negative choice, of which party is less dislikable".

The American philosopher William James (1842 1910) refined this approach by limiting it, among matters that cannot be proved, to belief-options that one has some real inclination or desire to accept, carry momentous implications, and are such that a failure to choose constitutes a negative choice.

In terms of the law and crime, people think you have to be a bad person in order to make a negative choice.

This was a factor relating to a negative choice.

Use of double negative A double negative in an item or in conjunction with a negative response choice makes the response and its interpretation difficult because in some languages, the double negative creates a positive meaning, while in other languages, the double negative merely reinforces the negative concept.

The perfect example is when I explained the problematic use of the term "lifestyles" in the official statement, which many in the LGBT community find to be offensive and denote a negative changeable "choice" like the use of "sexual preference".

Tiredness was quite frequently given as a reason for a negative color choice irrespective of whether a pupil was rated normal, anxious or depressed on the HAD Scale.

"anxiety increases the attention to negative choice options, the likelihood that ambiguous options will be interpreted negatively and the tendency to avoid potential negative outcomes even at the cost of missing potential gains".

However, the example given suggests that offering one negative choice, one neutral choice and two or more positive choices on a scale will make it more likely that patients will respond that they feel or function better.

Response options do not bias the direction of responses (e.g., offering one negative choice, one neutral choice, and two or more positive choices on a scale makes it more likely for patients to respond that they feel or function better).

The predictive value of the DCE in this study is satisfactory for predicting the positive choice but not for predicting the negative choice.