Sentence examples for a straight negative from inspiring English sources

It said it expected higher restructuring charges — €1.9 billion for the next two years — along with unprofitability in the devices unit with operating margins at more than negative three percent (before it had been a straight negative three percent).

In January, Fifth Third posted a $2.2 billion fourth-quarter loss, its third straight negative quarter, as the Midwestern lender wrote down its banking business following recent acquisitions.

John McCain's campaign has now put out out three straight negative TV ads in a row, attacking Barack Obama.

Fifth Third Bancorp posted a $2.2 billion fourth-quarter loss on Thursday, its third straight negative quarter, as the Midwestern lender wrote down its banking business following recent acquisitions.

The Japanese market marked 10 straight negative sessions for the first time in more than 40 years.

Plots of ln (q e –q t ) versus t gave a straight line, with negative intercepts.

A straight line of negative slope followed by a plateau means that an irreversible fouling is superimposed to a reversible phenomenon in the hydrodynamic conditions of the run.

Heterogeneity in range of dispersal is widespread in nature and the distributions observed are commonly leptokurtic, with a semi-logarithmic curve which approximates to a straight line of negative slope (Bateman 1963).

It means that plotting the down-hole temperature versus 'E' [the RHS of Eq. (2)] will result in a straight line with negative slope and its value is the difference between reservoir temperature and the down-hole temperature at t = 0.

If the fly were a random-walker (Gaussian speed distribution), the only peak would occur at zero and nowhere else; a plot of log(p v2)) would appear as a straight line of negative slope.

A plot of the log of the power of earthquakes (i.e. the Richter scale) against the log of the frequency of their occurrence reveals a straight line with negative slope of -1.