Sentence examples for negative affair from inspiring English sources

Perhaps the one positive result of the whole dismally negative affair is that it will cure the city's habit of presumptively lionizing each new chancellor, under the illusion that this one, this time, will "turn around" a system that actually seems almost beyond human agency.

The current campaign in the Eighth District is a typically grinding, negative affair.

Table 3 shows that age, cigarettes per day, duration of smoking, systolic blood pressure, triglycerides, negative affairs, exercise, family history of diseases including hypertension, stroke and cancer and existing diseases (including CHD, stroke, hypertension, cerebral arteriosclerosis, diabetes, COPD and cancer) were associated with all cause mortality (P < 0.05).

But what of the disjunctive state of affairs XvY or the negative state of affairs ~X?

Even more worrisome is the negative impact this affair is having on the newspaper industry in general.

Since these are propositional entities, it is natural to assume that there are both positive and negative states of affairs – e.g. the state of affairs that Aristotle was not the greatest philosopher ever.

Many of Reinach's fellow realist phenomenologist came to embrace the idea that either all states of affairs (Lipps 1928; Pfänder 1921) or at least negative states of affairs (Ingarden 1964 65) exist only as intentional objects.

Reinach believed that negative states of affairs obtain precisely as do positive states of affairs; otherwise, he did not see how we could defend objective knowledge of the most basic laws of ontology and logic (specifically, the principle of contradiction and the law of the excluded middle).

Reinach, however, embraced a realist position towards both positive and negative states of affairs.

There are two ostensible concerns that negative states of affairs present.

Armstrong has addressed the first concern by showing how we may reduce the number of negative states of affairs.