Sentence examples for negative means from inspiring English sources

The sign matters (i.e. angular momentum is a vector - positive means it is spinning in one direction, negative means it is spinning in the other direction).

Because challenges to our expectations, be they positive or negative, means we cannot predict our environment, and this itself is stressful.

Then the scalar form of the indicator's trend (ΔE+ΔP) is used for evaluating the dynamics of water cycle, with the positive value means acceleration and negative means deceleration.

Fran Parente Clark, N.J., April 23 , 2008• To the Editor: Re "The Low Road to Victory" (editorial, April 23): Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton never liked it when Republicans used the politics of personal destruction in an effort to destroy them, but the Clintons now have no qualms about using the same negative means to bring down a fellow Democratic presidential hopeful.

Jay M. Pasachoff Williamstown, Mass., April 23, 2008 To the Editor: Re "The Low Road to Victory" (editorial, April 23): Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton never liked it when Republicans used the politics of personal destruction in an effort to destroy them, but the Clintons now have no qualms about using the same negative means to bring down a fellow Democratic presidential hopeful.

Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism wonders whether the publication of the piece — which, while reasonably balanced, was certainly negative — means that the "knives are coming out for Geithner," and argues that since "one has to assume a story of this sort is a lagging indicator" of people's sentiments, that means Geithner is now seen to be sufficiently at risk to be fair game.

Ms. Livingston insisted that positive, in the range cited, actually meant negative, and that negative meant absolutely negative.

The negative mean of RECI growth underlines an average fall in the complexity of Colombian municipalities.

Who would like to hang around in a place where everyone seems to be negative, mean, and disapproving?

In particular, loci with a negative mean ΔSSLS show net site-wise signal for convergence (Supplementary Fig. 2d).

The Chinese currency and Japanese currency shows negative mean returns.