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Example sentences for "negative"

Lexicographically close words:
negated; negates; negating; negation; negations; negatived; negatively; negatives; negativing; negativity
  1. No better illustration could be given of the real significance of the sexual passivity of women, even at its most negative point.

  2. This, however, is only my own idea drawn from my own negative experience.

  3. The end support of such a line of beams cannot be said to be fixed, but is simply supported, hence the end beam would have a negative bending moment over next to the last support equal to that of a simple span.

  4. If a line of continuous beams be loaded uniformly, the maximum moments are negative and are over the supports.

  5. It is very easy to obtain the proper amount of steel for the negative moment in a slab by bending up the bars and letting them project into adjoining spans, as shown in Figs.

  6. The common practice is to design slabs to take a negative moment over the supports equal to one-half the positive moment at the center, or to bend up the alternate rods.

  7. For the maximum negative bending moment all panels were considered as loaded, and in a single line.

  8. In the calculation of continuous T-beams, it is necessary to consider the fact that the moment of inertia for negative moments is small because of the lack of sufficient compressive area in the stem or web.

  9. The practical engineer does not find, as Mr. Godfrey states, that the negative moment is double the positive moment, because he considers the live load either on one span only, or on alternate spans.

  10. If Mr. Godfrey will make proper provision for this point, in studying the designs of practical engineers, he will find due provision made for negative moments.

  11. Self-realization demands knowledge and training: the doing of right is not a negative but a positive act; it is not without significance that the Greek word for sin is literally "missing the mark.

  12. It is a mere enumeration of a few known facts, makes no use of exclusions or rejections, concludes precariously, and is always liable to be overthrown by a negative instance.

  13. These political liberties moreover claim not only the negative protection or non-interference of authority, but also its positive financial help.

  14. Its very negative character impregnates the class-rooms with an irreligious feeling which the impressionable mind of the child cannot but notice.

  15. Again, atoms are of different sorts, as positive or negative to electric currents.

  16. That negative argument is strong, but the affirmative argument is much stronger.

  17. His inward impurity if but only of a negative kind had become external and practical, and it seemed to him as if thereby the intended sin had been in reality committed.

  18. I do not visit taverns," said Belier with a polite but negative motion of the hand.

  19. The first new act of hostility on the side of the negative managers was intended, like their late proceedings, as a negative general, being calculated to deprive us of the very sinews of war.

  20. Their negative judgments are meant to pillory a person to drive him or her back into the herd.

  21. Now, as back then, he believed that the comments of him being good for nothing were true even if now the negative judgment calls were for a litany of other unrelated issues.

  22. Anxiety may then be called also a libido with a negative sign.

  23. The snake, about whose significance as a “negative phallus,” etc.

  24. But our poetry is the poetry of barbarism, because this age has no sense for perfection; its ideals are negative and partial, its moral strength is a blind vehemence.

  25. Here he devoted himself to the education of the peasants and edited an educational paper: soon afterwards he assumed a negative attitude to all progress and wrote many novels.

  26. It is extremely easy to pick holes, to adopt a negative attitude, to call down fire from heaven and make a show with the fists when your enemy is merely an author.

  27. The constitution of the Roman republic gave the whole legislative power to the people, without allowing a negative voice either to the nobility or consuls.

  28. Why should they occupy a negative position, and be restricted, in making the most important part of their career, wholly to the choice implied in refusals?

  29. It is already evident, both in positive and negative results, both in the schools and the general public taste, that literature cannot be set aside in the scheme of education; nay, that it is of the first importance.

  30. How are you to know who is positive and who is negative, or who is a maiden lady in equilibrium, if it be true, as scientists affirm, that the genus old maid is one in whom the positive currents neutralize the negative currents?

  31. And this was not because he lacked quality, or was merely easy-going and negative or effeminate, for the same thing happened to him when he went shooting in the summer in the Rockies.

  32. The power of doing wrong is, after all, a power, and George had a feeling of having lost that power and of being in a negative way wronged.

  33. It all comforted Maria in the midst of her langour and her illness, which was negative and unattended by any pain.

  34. And that is the kind of negative piety which is distinctly a characteristic Irish trait.

  35. I should never forgive myself if any act of mine, were it even a negative one, brought harm on poor dear Lucy.

  36. He looked at me keenly, and seeing the negative in my face, turned to the others, and scrutinized them closely.

  37. At first there is a sort of negative condition, as if some tie were loosened, and then the absolute freedom quickly follows.

  38. As might naturally be expected in a case where negative criticism is arrayed against a canonical work upheld by the time-honoured authority of the church, those who dispute its authenticity(3) are in the minority.

  39. Returning to the bright light, and examining it well, Herbert perceived on his negative an almost imperceptible little spot on the sea horizon.

  40. Immediately running to the room in which Cyrus Harding then was, he extended the negative and magnifier towards the engineer, pointing out the little spot.

  41. Herbert proceeded as he was accustomed to do, and the negative obtained, he went away to fix it by means of the chemicals deposited in a dark nook of Granite House.

  42. No better example can be given of the loose way in which different ideas about a god and God are mingled in the same text than the "Negative Confession" in the hundred and twenty-fifth chapter of the Book of the Dead.

  43. Should dry plates, however, be used, the transparency may be produced in the camera and the negative by contact in a printing frame, or vice versa, or both may be produced by means of the camera.

  44. Negative Films= have now been before the public some time, and have been considerably used as reversed negatives by printing with the back of the film in contact with the plate.

  45. The gelatine layer applied to the negative before stripping must be as thin and even as possible, as from thick or uneven films it is almost impossible to produce a sharp print.

  46. Black and White= subjects, on the contrary, for their satisfactory reproduction, require a negative of the utmost density, but perfectly clear in the lines.

  47. If the negative is of a line subject, and it is desirable to have clear whites that the impressions may resemble as much as possible the original, the lines in the negative must be clear, but the remaining portions of great density.

  48. A Collotype plate may be readily produced from any negative, but the highest results are naturally only obtained when the negative is prepared with a view to its special use.

  49. From the negative printing plate described, which is treated in all respects as a Collotype plate, impressions may be taken upon transfer paper, and transferred to stone or zinc.

  50. If, instead of flowing the solution over the negative, a dipping bath be used, into which the negative is steadily lowered for a few seconds, a more uniform intensification is likely to ensue.

  51. Old plates which have been dried very often give perfect negative impressions at first.

  52. This negative attitude received its answer in the work of that yea-sayer, W.

  53. As I am desirous of printing a large quantity of copies of a glass negative in my possession, I shall be obliged by any hints as to the best method of multiplying such negative, so as to guard against an accident from breakage.

  54. The council failed, and now the negative say, give back to the city its powers and let the council try again.

  55. The Negative say: retain the principle of distinct legislative and administrative bodies, but observe a proper correlation between them which is done in countless instances as we have shown.

  56. The first speaker is followed by a negative debater, who, in turn, is followed by a member of the affirmative team, and so on until the entire constructive argument is presented.

  57. A member of the negative team opens the refutation.

  58. The first speaker on the negative side may have much the same work to do.

  59. Thus in every question that is two-sided enough to be a good question for debate, there are certain fundamental issues upon which the disagreement between the affirmative and the negative can be shown to rest.

  60. This material was introduced because the negative felt sure that the affirmative would attempt to use the experience of Shortridge High School as evidence of the successful working of this plan.

  61. The Negative propose, first, that the form of organization shall embody a proper correlation or departments.

  62. Mr. Robbins replied for the Affirmative: The Negative argue that the mechanisms of government in Boston may differ from those of San Francisco.

  63. Upon this matter, the Negative shall have a few words to say before the close of the debate.

  64. A general and decided negative was put upon this proposition; but one of the party moved an amendment.


  65. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "negative" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    negative angle; negative charge; negative electricity; negative evidence; negative voice