Sentence examples for positive notion from inspiring English sources

– David Blunkett, former home secretary and Labour MP for Sheffield 'Politics' is a dirty word to the public: However, 'democracy' remains an incredibly positive notion.

In a recent speech Gordon Brown sought to explore and promote a "golden thread" that binds diverse communities into a positive notion of nationhood.

Mr. de Blasio offered little in the way of a substantive answer, declining to articulate an alternative way to pay for the plan, dismissing signs that the governor is leery of raising taxes, and concluding, blandly: "We have to focus on the positive notion that this is what the people of New York City want".

This asymmetry also reveals itself in the character of Hume's positive notion of necessity, within the standpoint of common life and science.

For example, one major debate in continental feminist work is the value of reconstructing the concepts of gender or race (i.e., constructing a positive notion) to improve the status of women and women of color in philosophy and beyond.

With regard to hypothesis H2a, we were interested in whether a positive notion regarding financial aspects of SR investments is also an incentive, besides non-monetary motivations, to invest in a socially responsible way.

He holds "positive notions of what government actions can accomplish".

Participants in the project were invited to discuss positive notions of binge drinking as well as negative.

Wether it is nuclear fallout from Fukushima, global warming, solar flares, pole-shifts, economic melt-down or political unrest, the "doom and gloom" predictions seem to take spotlight over the more positive notions of renewal.

Both tutors and students reported positive notions about the method.

Terms such as improvisations [ 10, 17] and innovations [ 18] offer more positive notions of workarounds.