The phrase "a negative ruling" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal contexts to refer to a decision made by a judge or court that is unfavorable to one of the parties involved.
Example: "The court issued a negative ruling on the appeal, leaving the original decision in place."
Alternatives: "an unfavorable decision" or "a detrimental judgment."
Yet there are hopes that the commission will issue a negative ruling soon.
A negative ruling, if broad enough, could effectively silence the private-school wing of the so-called school choice movement.
A negative ruling on the coup itself from the Supreme Court would be harder to bear.It is also unlikely.
Rolandas Krisciunas, a deputy finance minister, says his country will be "somewhat puzzled" by a negative ruling.
But Amelia Torres, a spokeswoman for Mr. Monti, said: "We have already told Microsoft many times that a negative ruling will incur a fine.
A negative ruling on the A.C.A. will not just cripple this one law, but impair the national government for a generation.
Microsoft had indicated in the past that it would appeal any negative ruling to the European Court of Justice, the highest court in Europe.
But Michael J. Garcia, the United States attorney in Manhattan, said his office reviews any negative rulings about an officer's credibility to decide whether any action is necessary.
The SCAF also manipulated the judiciary in turning the Supreme Constitutional Court's negative ruling on post-revolutionary electoral law into a pretext for forcibly dissolving an elected parliament.
Results of feline immunodeficiency virus (antibody) and feline leukopenia virus (antigen) testing (Idexx SNAP FIV/FeLV Combo Test; Idexx Laboratories) were also negative, ruling out the potential that viral-induced immunosuppression was a concurrent factor.
That said, the commission's Statement of Objections pre-emptively disallows a number of ways in which Microsoft could evade the proposed tying remedies which suggests that the commission has learned from past regulatory experiences.If no agreement is reached, however, and the expected negative ruling is issued, probably in March, Microsoft will appeal.
