Anything that parvenus would think of as 'posh' is seemingly un-cool and to be positively avoided.
These days, when the first world war is firmly established as one of our defining national myths, and its poems are drip-fed into school children, it's difficult to imagine that for many years after 1918 many people positively avoided talking or thinking about it.
In their study of a sample of British consumers, Banister and Hogg (2004) found that many consumers wore safe clothing items (e.g., simple clothes, which would be interpreted positively) to avoid censure rather than risky items.
" We try to teach them to think positively, and avoid theft, illegal work abroad, and smuggling".
I just saw it for the umpteenth time last.... ........ Speak positively and avoid gossip.
Nicotine interferes with the bleeding response in soft tissues and may, consequently, lead to false negatives for the BoP; therefore, to avoid positively skewing the results due to smoking, we decided to exclude current smokers from this study.
We are voting positively, not to avoid the rule of villainy -- something new for me, perhaps for you.
Second, all of the items in the scale are positively keyed to avoid creating a factor structure based on direction or wording [ 29]; this fact facilitates social desirability answers.
In addition, the laboratory is positively pressured to avoid the contamination with incoming external pollution (e.g., pollen, spores, etc).. To diminish the steps in pre-PCR amplification, and, therefore, the possibility of contamination, a modified protocol respect to the one used by Suyama et al. [ 58] and by Parducci et al. [ 59], who crushed the pollen grains in PCR tube, was used.
If you're being bullied, then it's important to be calm, to think positively, and to avoid blaming yourself if you want to get out of the situation as soon as possible.
