Sentence examples for negative symbols from inspiring English sources

The races weren't about the issues or even the candidates who were running but about national political leaders who had become negative symbols.

Either we're taught that through personal consumption of negative symbols we're somehow in control of taking back the past or by embracing certain stereotypes while combating others is progressive.

Although, in these studies, emotional stimuli (both negative and positive) elicited behavioral indices of enhanced exogenous attention capture, this effect disappeared when targets consisted of negative symbols (Barratt & Bundesen, 2012; Fenske & Eastwood, 2003; Horstmann, Borgstedt & Heumann, 2006).

Taken together these diverse findings suggest that negative symbols, such as frowning emoticons, may be detected and processed quicker and deeper due to their diagnostic value to warn people of danger.

Such a study could usefully extend the present design to include food options that are perceived to be less healthy but are actually healthier, in order to ascertain whether the diagnostic value of the frowning emoticons arises from their greater potency as negative symbols, or from being coupled with unexpected/discrepant food options.

Get new fresh AA batteries and put them in the pack, making sure that the positive and negative symbols match up with the sticker on the pack.

"For the Hill District, it's a negative symbol," he said.

Murderous cartels may be an even more potent negative symbol than cancer.

"The only thing more potent than drugs as a negative symbol is cancer," a medical-marijuana advocate told Kleiman at the time.

"Guantánamo is a negative symbol, but it is much diminished because we are seen as trying to close it," the official said.

While withdrawing from Eurovision lacks the gravity of walking out of peace talks or the Olympics, it is a negative symbol in a delicate and long-running effort to demilitarize one of the most intractable ethnic conflicts in the former Soviet Union.