"a negative move" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it to describe a situation in which a decision or action had a detrimental effect. For example, "The company's decision to close the regional office was seen as a negative move that affected the local economy."
United fans saw it as a negative move and had Rooney not scored, the Dutchman would have surely been booed when he went off the pitch.
After plunging to a reading of minus 90 in the fourth quarter of 2008, it stood at around 13 earlier this year, but is currently at around 3. "The last time there was a negative move of this magnitude was in the fourth quarter of 2008," Mr. LeBas said.
"The players think it's a negative move for English rugby because that channel for promotion and demotion needs to be open at all times for all sides".
There were 11 positive moves and 9 negative moves with no individual having both a positive and a negative move (X2 = 1.5, df = 1, p = 0.225).
Many existing studies have shown that the HCR-20 predicts violence and recidivism, and the more clinically useful outcome measure of a negative move from the community back to a secure hospital [ 5].
Anderson's conclusion is clear, if worrying: chip and pin, for the customer if not for banks, is a "thoroughly negative move.
Restoring a written entrance examination is a step backwards mistakenly disguised as a step forwards.This negative move is being made because AS examinations have been "scrapped" and because A-levels have become blunted as a discriminatory tool, with commercial examination boards awarding increasing proportions of top grades to attract more "customers".
Mention volume spiked, and the percentage of tweets that were positive dropped from Harley's typical levels of 80% happy down to 60% happiness -- a very large negative move for such an established brand.
Precisely how this happens microscopically is still a bit of a mystery (and mind-bendingly complicated)." In this model, heavier graupel, carrying a negative charge, move towards the bottom of the cloud while lighter, positively charged particles are carried upwards.
If you're adding a negative number, move your pencil that many units to the left; so if you then subtract 3 from your previous total, you'd start at 13 and move 3 units to the left, landing on 10.
"Carrier mobility" measures how quickly charge carriers — whether positive or negative — move in the presence of an electric field.
