Sentence examples for negative affairs from inspiring English sources

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).

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.

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.

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.

Reinach's defence of obtaining negative states of affairs and Russell's defence of negative facts were both made public in 1911.

Although Chatton had his reasons for his theory, Wodeham modified it in a useful way, differentiating between positive and negative states of affairs.

In the commentary on the Categories he modifies his opinion on this subject, since he admits that there are in re a kind of negative state of affairs signified by true negative propositions.