This would have a positive, multiplier effect on the Nicaraguan economy.

If they don t, the positive effect will vanish.

Performing good music in North Korea just might have a positive effect.

I hope to effect positive change in the world.

(b) A positive effect on balance of payments of countries and reduced import dependency

This should have a long lasting positive effect on our work in this building.

If implemented now, steep rate cuts can still have a significant positive effect. If delayed, their effect is likely to be minimal.

In that connection, a favourable outcome of the negotiations with Syria should have a positive effect.

The Register may have a positive or a negative effect on disarmament, depending on the region.

Workers' remittances can have a positive effect on poverty alleviation, sustained growth and sustainable development.

Debt reduction would have a positive effect in this respect and would be a major step forward.

While some jobs moved abroad, the net effect was still greatly positive.

The status of UN Habitat as a Programme appeared to have had a positive effect on its results.

Such a choice will obviously not have a very positive effect on the sustainable management of natural resources.

Direct foreign investment can have a positive effect on the technological pool available to countries for development.

But, despite some transitional market turbulence, the overall effect will likely be positive.

The positive effect of the ISAF presence in Kabul was immediate and welcome.

The positive effect of demographic variables on environment and development was rarely emphasized.

But there would also be a positive effect on saving and thus on wealth next year and beyond.

There should be a snowball effect, a positive feedback, such that the more names we have, the more we get.

Ribavirin and other antiviral drugs, as well as treatment with interferons, do not have a positive effect in patients.

I'm really hoping that those things will spread around the world and will start to have a positive effect.

Its one positive effect was to launch an effort to reform the international monetary system.

Some evidence indicates that regular exercise has a positive effect on the physical and mental health of those with schizophrenia.

Educational voucher programs, for example, took a knock when careful analysis of a Chilean program found no positive effect on students performance.

The continuing trend of a steady growth in the country's economy is having a positive effect on foreign and domestic trade indicators.

To be sure, in addition to the negative storage effect, there might be a positive effect on the world climate insofar as bio fuels may replace fossil fuels for combustion processes.

In these countries, there is therefore no reason to think that fiscal consolidation would have a strong positive effect on confidence.

The signing of the peace treaty between Israel and Jordan was also bound to have a positive effect throughout the region.

We have noted in recent months some encouraging developments which will certainly have a positive effect on the question of a nuclear test moratorium.

To be sure, if tax rates were decreased permanently this year, there would initially be a strongly positive effect on labor supplied.

In short, the US stimulus effects on spending have probably been positive but small, and without a decisive effect on the economy.

This variant has a triple positive effect, on the number of unrepresented Member States, Member States within range and overrepresented Member States.

You're dividing a positive into a positive.

So a positive divided by a positive is going to be positive.

We have a positive number plus a positive number divided by a positive number.

In any case, there is reason to doubt whether media coverage has any such protective effect, and even where coverage is intensive, its positive effect may be doubted.

This is a positive divided by a positive.

Without such an approach, increased awareness of victimization could have the positive effect of creating empathy and understanding, but the negative effect of reinforcing stereotypes of women as helpless.

So if I have a positive times a positive, that would give me a positive number.

One hopes that a growing awareness of the significance of these and other factors will have a positive effect on policy agendas in the coming year.

A fissile material cut off treaty banning future production of fissile materials for weapons purposes would have a positive effect on non proliferation and disarmament efforts.

We are convinced that the work of this session will also have a positive effect in overcoming acute crises and conflicts in the world.

The theoretical effect on employment is unambiguously positive, because marginal workers will be more productive as they work longer.

Yet an analysis of Chile s voucher program found no positive effect on students test scores or years in school.