Valence means good or bad, positive or negative.

For Jolie, that means often using her iconic status to advance a positive agenda, whether the issue is Syrian refugees in Jordan or breast cancer awareness.

While the blame game will not solve global warming, the mounting panic could lead to a positive outcome if it means we re consider our current approach.

So hopefully everything has been positive, positive, positive, more positive.

This means developing countries adopting ambitious national development strategies, creating and reinforcing good governance structures, fostering a positive environment for economic growth, and helping the private sector flourish.

Stigma also means that family support is not a certainty when women become HIV positive they may be rejected and have their property seized when their husband dies.l

That s a positive side.

But it is not on the horizon yet, which means that there would be no positive private spending response to buffer public spending cuts.

Tom got quite a few positive responses.

It's a pregnancy test and it's positive.

It might even yield a positive return.

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In addition, those members of the international community with the means and opportunity to influence the posture of the parties, including SLM A, must try to steer the current round of talks in Abuja towards a positive outcome.

Most face constitutional requirements to run balanced budgets, which means that such states are now either raising taxes or cutting expenditures a negative stimulus that offsets at least some of the Federal government s positive stimulus.

A positive edge between two nodes denotes a positive relationship (friendship, alliance, dating) and a negative edge between two nodes denotes a negative relationship (hatred, anger).

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Such a measure would have several positive effects.

But economics is really a positive sum game.

It received a generally positive reaction from critics.

But, while both of these positive trends are likely to continue, a third positive factor may not prove as durable.

Benevolent prejudice is a superficially positive type of prejudice that is expressed in terms of apparently positive beliefs and emotional responses.

Stay positive.

Positive aspects

In this sense, power becomes a positive sum game.

This is the positive side of a multicultural society.

Heroreports is described as a campaign of positive thinking.

The majority of such studies show a positive linkage.

A more positive contribution by Belgrade is also needed.

Positive economic growth required a conducive and enabling environment.

There is a positive dimension to every human right.

However, if there is a significant risk of cancer in a particular patient (BRCA positive, very positive family history, palpable mass), mammography may still be important.

Primarily, I would like to stress the catalytically important constitutional recognition of positive measures as a means for the achievement of real equality and the elimination of discriminations against women through the revision of the Greek constitution in 2001.

But if everyone gets positive, I will get the energy to stay positive.

Such a decision would have a strongly positive economic and geopolitical impact.

But it can play a positive role as a tool of emancipation.

Positive stress, for which a person feels rewarded by surmounting a challenge.

Within a week, she was receiving a really huge and positive response.

So this is a very positive situation, by the way.

These changes are shaping our future in a positive way.

The Istanbul meeting last month concluded on a positive note.

Even espousing one of them would be a positive sign.

We are a positive force for social and economic development.

On 25 November 2005, the Commissioner received a positive reply.