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359 examples of Positively in a sentence

As a result, fame could be negatively, not positively, correlated with long-run accuracy.
Many people who have been debriefed judge the experience positively.
North Korea’s latest action follows behavior over the last decade that makes Iran look positively restrained in comparison.
We can only hope that North Korea will respond positively to our proposal.
It is not positively good to have five cars rather than one.
Though one should not conclude from this that growth and inequality are either unrelated or positively correlated, the unqualified statement that inequality is bad for growth does not really accord with the facts.
Even government deficit spending – long the bane of Africa – seems positively puny compared to the massive debts that the US and some European countries face.
Indeed, Erdogan responded positively to Europe’s conditions for Turkey’s EU membership.
Last month, when the British Medical Journal asked its readers whether evidence-based medicine is malfunctioning, the responses were almost evenly split: 51% answered positively, and 49% negatively.
Social origin is more positively correlated with educational outcomes in France than in any other OECD country.
But the country’s internal disarray precludes the government’s ability to influence events positively.
What percentage of people on this drug will get better – and, more interestingly, which particular individuals will respond positively, and which ones are likely to be harmed?
But the realization that others hold more extreme views may have led people to see themselves as more positively inclined toward immigration.
More important, highly educated immigrants have actually contributed positively to public finances in developed countries, because these workers pay more in taxes than they use in public goods and services.
There is not much positively patriotic about the new nationalism in Italy, Britain, or even the US.
Last autumn, the Special Eurobarometer 467 survey showed that 75% of respondents viewed the EU positively.
The share of younger respondents (ages 15-39) who view the EU positively is particularly high.
More positively, restoring truth would counter the traditional Chinese instinct to blame all disasters on external forces, and might lead to a spiritual epiphany for a people struggling to find value in the emerging new China.
For example, at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos last month, US Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin spoke positively about a weaker dollar as a way to boost US trade.
Their economic clout is matched by their ambitions; the talks go beyond traditional trade issues, which account for only five of the 29 proposed chapters, and consider a wide range of investment and regulatory issues that will affect many millions of people – and not always positively.
In this case, fiscal consolidation is likely to affect their investment spending positively.
Europeans tend to feel more positively about their governments than do Americans, for whom the failures and unpopularity of their federal, state, and local politicians are a commonplace.
And, notably, while the BOJ had been attributing low inflation to falling energy prices, energy is now contributing positively to inflation.
Any financially literate fund manager knows that risk and return are positively correlated.
They can affect each other both positively and negatively.
US long-term bond yields, such as the ten-year Treasury yield, are highly positively correlated (70% since 1913) with the previous ten years’ inflation.
Yet such a steep decline is a remarkable development, not least because Russians, who remember well the harsh punishments dissidents faced during Soviet times, often prefer to speak positively of their leaders when asked.
Such cooperation reflects a quiet desire to influence China’s behavior positively, so that it does not cross well-defined red lines or go against the self-touted gospel of its “peaceful rise.”
Physical symptoms are almost never positively valued, but some symptoms of mental disorders typically are.
As an economist, I’ll leave aside Trump’s positively frightening foreign-policy views and concentrate on the economic issues that many pundits claim put him in the White House.
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