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This precedent will not be easy to roll back, and will have a far-reaching positive influence on China’s political progress.
The quake gave them an opportunity to be seen, and an unprecedented number of people had a chance to perceive this nascent civil society as a positive force that serves their own interests.
Financial and asset-management institutions can provide positive incentives to such companies – those that incorporate sustainability, long-term thinking, and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance criteria in core business models – by allocating assets accordingly.
But there have been many positive factors, too.
The positive effect of instant messaging and video gaming on productivity and living standards pales in comparison.
That sounds like good news: Any move toward non-proliferation seems like a positive step.
The military’s high and positive profile seems to suggest that it is the only institution left in a tottering state that seems able to stabilize a delicate situation.
But, while it is certainly a positive development for the US, for India, it represents a new frontier of dependency.
His visit to Ghana highlights the desirability of prominent people from the diaspora making a positive contribution to African affairs.
If countries that abide by the EU’s new Fiscal Compact were allowed to convert their entire stock of government debt into Eurobonds, the positive impact would be little short of the miraculous.
Of course, the existence of a positive correlation between cannabis use and psychosis does not allow us to draw a direct causal link between the two.
Chile has set a positive precedent in the developing world by carrying out extensive consultations on its national climate commitment for Paris.
Kennedy’s speech provoked a highly positive response from his Soviet counterpart, Nikita Khrushchev, who called in the US envoy and told him that the speech was the finest by any American president since Franklin Roosevelt.
Like Chile during Latin America’s period of financial volatility, Ireland’s crisis management was generally good, and high-quality outward-facing institutions, (such as the Industrial Development Authority and the National Treasury Management Agency) presented a consistent and positive image to the world.
On the one hand, the fact that an international tribunal has pronounced on the responsibility of a state in the matter of genocide is an undeniably positive development.
Of course, it used to be difficult to listen to customers; as a company, you could not station people everywhere to pick up random comments, and few customers cared enough to write actual letters – positive or negative.
You can use sentiment-sensing tools – everything from tools that measure the prevalence of negative or positive words about your offering on Twitter and Facebook, to customer surveys that produce precise, structured data.
What features – positive or negative – are mentioned most often?
Advocates of EMU argue that adoption of a single currency will have many positive effects, both at the micro and the macro level.
At the “macro” level, the main effect is assumed to be lower interest rates, with positive effects on European investment and economic growth.
Although these positive effects might be substantial, few professional economists see them as sufficient to motivate the abolition of today’s exchange rate system.
Indeed, it seems like common sense that reducing recess time would have a positive effect on achievement – a position endorsed by educational leaders like Benjamin Canada, a former superintendent of schools in Atlanta, Georgia.
Positive trends are also seen in Brazil and Mexico.
Promotions provide officials with a strong positive incentive to boost growth.
Increased precipitation also has positive consequences – most significantly, more fresh water for a thirsty world.
And, in some cases, such as increasing precipitation, global warming will have both positive and negative effects.
Confronted with the problem of bringing about positive changes in a domestic or international environment that seems to defy the power of “normal” leaders, one looks for new Alexanders to untie the “Gordian knot” and transcend complexity by sheer force of will and dynamism.
This prevents potentially positive matching of the skills needed by employers and the available supply of them.
If Putin and his team were to start changing the system – genuinely fighting corruption, and perhaps releasing Khodorkovsky – the response would be positive.
In Germany, for example, interest rates on public debt up to five years will be negative, and only slightly positive beyond that, producing a weighted average of zero.
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