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3166 examples of Positive in a sentence

The most positive thing that can be said about Trump’s first year of economic policymaking is that he did not deliver on his campaign promise to disrupt trade.
Of course, there is always an optimist around to offer a positive spin.
Although annual population growth is positive today in all 17 countries, it will decline dramatically.
They were convinced that it would have positive effects in the long run.
Since then, some subsequent revisions have been positive and some negative.
This is just one example of the positive role that local humanitarian actors can play when fully empowered.
The economics profession’s response has not been uniformly positive.
Human rights treaties may also have positive effects on ratifying countries over the long term, creating public commitments to which human rights activists can point as they push nations to make gradual, if grudging, improvements down the road.
Nonetheless, there is as of yet no clear evidence that the UN's human rights treaties have a direct measurable positive impact on the human rights practices of individual countries that ratify them, all else being equal.
In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission has announced plans to require bloggers and celebrity endorsers to disclose gifts or payments from vendors and others seeking the bloggers’ positive comments online.
In the past, government direction was emphasized, despite an acknowledgement of the market’s positive role.
The economic effects have been negative overall for oil-exporting countries, and positive for oil-importing countries.
If real interest rates were significantly positive, demand could plummet, pushing down prices to the point that it becomes impossible for borrowers to service their debts.
Each positive initiative, whether it comes from governments or civil societies, should be supported.
It would seem that bid-offer spreads are falling, which we might regard as positive.
Whatever positive impact wealth effects have had on consumption and deleveraging cannot be expected to continue.
Certainly, no one would argue that these are positive developments for China; nonetheless, they have arguably been a blessing in disguise.
Yet there remains a danger that this positive progress can still be undermined.
A recent Financial Times/Harris poll in the US, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, and Spain found people nearly three times more likely to say that globalization is negative than positive.
China has never been a positive factor in American politics; so, from its perspective, the less it is mentioned in this US election season, the better.
The more positive argument – as Rabin would certainly have understood – is that it is overwhelmingly in Israel’s own interest to defuse this issue by accepting, once and for all, that Palestinian statehood is an indispensable requirement of its own long-term peace and security.
Even so, there are positive trends.
Not every individual or company stands to gain from the TTIP, but the net effect on Germany’s economy and citizens would be clearly positive.
A more positive view of Obama emerged when the Arab revolts began in Tunisia and Egypt –countries with pro-US regimes.
Addressing the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in January 2008, Singh foresaw the possibility of positive externalities for the world as a whole from the rise of China and India, owing to the new opportunities for development that they could bring, especially to other developing countries.
We collectively need to make a positive policy decision to capitalize on the potential of genomics/biotechnology to help reduce inequities in global health.
Many of these connections take place on un-moderated platforms that expose children to a wide variety of opinions, beliefs, and cultures – not all positive or safe.
Taking into account a variety of far-reaching positive effects, we find that every dollar spent on neonatal care generates about $9 in benefits.
Among the additional positive effects would be more capable health services, providing better care to people of all ages.
The June referendum’s initial economic effects were negligible, and may even have been slightly positive, now that the UK’s post-referendum growth figures are being revised upward.
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