Sentence examples for maintained a negative from inspiring English sources

Moody's maintained a negative outlook.

Since World War II, Italy has maintained a negative trade balance in agricultural products, many of which are consumed domestically because of the country's high population density.

As the euro reached and ultimately surpassed parity with the U.S. dollar, this advantage was lost, and for the first decade of the 21st century Italy maintained a negative trade balance.

Moody's downgraded Toyota to Aa2 from Aa1, and maintained a negative outlook on the company, indicating that it believed Toyota's troubles, which have been aggravated by still-sluggish economic conditions, would linger.

During surgery, a negative ulnar variance of 1 2 mm was achieved in all cases (see Figs. 2 and 3 showing 2 mm of negative ulnar variance), but in due course of time four cases maintained a negative ulnar variance (−1 mm), while two cases had neutral variance (see Fig. 4).

Overall, Moody's has maintained a negative outlook on the nonprofit health care sector since November 2008, and expects to maintain it at least through the rest of 2011.

Moody's, a credit-rating agency, maintains a negative outlook for local governments but does not expect "a significant number of defaults, bankruptcy filings or hefty downgrades".

In addition, Moody's said it was maintaining a negative outlook on France because of structural challenges and a "sustained loss of competitiveness" in the country.

Moody's said late Thursday that it was cutting Hungary to a speculative rating of Ba1 from Baa3, its lowest investment grade, and was maintaining a negative outlook on the debt.

The spreads had risen on Tuesday after Fitch Ratings said it was maintaining a negative outlook for Portugal's sovereign credit ratings while it analyzed the government's long-term austerity plan.

The rib cage spring-out force causes off-loading of the chest wall from the lung and maintains a negative end-expiratory "pleural" pressure after PEEP inflation.