Sentence examples for negative battle from inspiring English sources

He was hopeful the next election, due in 2016, would be "an optimistic contest of ideas rather than a negative battle of wills and ideologies".

Airport arrests aside, the mooted licensing changes in California show that compromise is possible, and indeed necessary, to figure out how the new and old economies intersect in a positive way, rather than a negative battle.

The attention has brought an added intensity to what is already an expensive, high-stakes and almost relentlessly negative battle between Mr. Corzine and his Republican challenger, Christopher J. Christie, a former United States attorney.

As in Britain, the No camp in Quebec had fought a largely negative battle, focusing heavily on financial arguments, and ensuring that a Prime Minister who was unpopular in the area, in this case Jean Chrétien, kept a low profile.

Some researches indicate that the bearing capacity of negative battle pile is less than that of positive batter pile under free pile head.

Do not get wrapped up in a negative battle with your opponent.

Other candidates have tried this before, arguing that big-money negative advertising battles are bad for democracy, alienating voters.

Young people are constantly faced with a range of challenges, on top of which they have to battle negative stereotyping of drug and alcohol users.

We're just normal people living in a normal road.'" They also had to battle negative attitudes from other people in the town, who mistakenly believed they were making money off the back of the murders.

That has helped Mr. Romney avoid the classic conundrum of political attack advertising in a nominating battle: Negative commercials tend to harm both the candidate making the claim and the one on the receiving end.

But in an interview today just before the Iowa caucuses, Mr. Bradley suggested that if anything he had been too negative in his battle with Mr. Gore, arguing that the "rat-a-tat-tat" of the race might have turned off voters and drawn attention from his own idealistic call to reform politics and end poverty.