Sentence examples for accept negative from inspiring English sources

The article indicates that despite the simplicity of the rule for project acceptance or rejection by the NPV technique, many American Chief Officers accept negative NPV projects (Jensen 1993).

The cosmos will not accept negative wishes.

Two academics, Carmen Reinhart and Belen Sbrancia, have suggested financial repression as one way out of the debt crisis forcing domestic investors to accept negative real returns.

"All Fall Down," by Thomas L. Friedman (column, Nov. 26), accurately quotes an inaccurate assertion made in a recent issue of Portfolio Magazine that the ratings models used by Standard & Poor's assumed that home prices would only rise in the future and did not have the capacity to accept negative numbers.

That means one should accept negative probabilities (and consequently negative definite covariance functions).

A.R.: And it's a completely different story if journals accept negative results.

The machines have high-speed scanners that can accept negatives, positive transparencies -- like slides -- or photo prints, and they can also handle digital image files, from CD's or memory cards.

Insoluble problems are addressed by explaining the natural course of coping processes and tips on how to speed acceptance (e.g., accepting negative feelings, talking with other people and establishing contact with others in a similar situation).

Thus, an editorial bias would be shown by difference in quality of accepted negative and positive studies despite equal probabilities of acceptance.

For enterprise, this means accepting negative PR rather than controlling the brand image.

Paul Harvey, a University of New Hampshire professor and GYPSY expert, has researched this, finding that Gen Y has "unrealistic expectations and a strong resistance toward accepting negative feedback," and "an inflated view of oneself".