She was the opposite of everything she should have been -- a positive pole in a negative home, a living reaction of warmth and kindness to the harsh reality of her father.

There were 24% ( 10 subjects ) who shifted from a negative to a positive reaction after they were reassured as to the normalcy of the Kohnstamm-positive reaction.

While some fans applauded the redesign, most of the reaction to the new color scheme, which included the changing of the historical purple and traditional Arizonan colors of copper and turquoise to a reddish color known as " Sedona Red " similar to that of the Phoenix Coyotes and Arizona Cardinals color schemes, was pointedly negative.

Only a proper, artist-grade acrylic gesso should be used to prime canvas in preparation for painting with acrylic ( however acrylic paint can be applied to raw canvas if so desired without any negative effect or chemical reaction as would be the case with oils ).

Critical reaction to the film was mostly negative, with much being made of Taylor's wildly fluctuating weight from scene to scene.

Chaplin was deeply hurt by the negative reaction to his film.

The crisis in Kosovo and, in 1986, the emergence of Slobodan Milošević in Serbia provoked a very negative reaction in Croatia and Slovenia ; politicians from both republics feared that his motives would threaten their republics ' autonomy.

Inhibitors are sometimes referred to as " negative catalysts " since they decrease the reaction rate.

The reaction to the explanations and assurances has been overwhelmingly negative, although a small number of customers have applauded the production in China.

The present IUPAC definition is that affinity A is the negative partial derivative of Gibbs free energy G with respect to extent of reaction ξ at constant pressure and temperature.

To quote Dona Budd's The Language of Art Knowledge, Dada was born out of negative reaction to the horrors of World War I.

German popular reaction to the Treaty of Versailles of 1919 was highly negative.

On the other hand if ΔH is negative, the reaction is exothermic, that is the overall decrease in enthalpy is achieved by the generation of heat.

Similarly, in the reduction reaction, the further the equilibrium lies to the ion / atom with the more negative oxidation state the higher the potential.

In plotlines mirroring the negative reaction of non-commercial artists to the commercialization of the art form by companies like IBM ( and, later, Sony itself ) the Rakugaki Ōkoku series ( 2003 – 2005 ) for Sony's PlayStation 2 revolves around an anonymous hero and his magically imbued-with-life graffiti creations as they struggle against an evil king who only allows art to be produced which can benefit him.

Horror is a film genre seeking to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's primal fears.

Valiente offers another explanation for the negative reaction of some neopagans ; that the identification of Lucifer as the god of the witches in Aradia was " too strong meat " for Wiccans who were used to the gentler, romantic paganism of Gerald Gardner and were especially quick to reject any relationship between witchcraft and Satanism.

In the early 2000s, there had been speculation that the United Nations might signal a takeover of ICANN, followed by a negative reaction from the US government and worries about a division of the Internet the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunisia in November 2005 agreed not to get involved in the day-to-day and technical operations of ICANN.

The concept of Karma in Jainism is basically a reaction due to the attachment or aversion with which an activity ( both positive and negative ) is executed in thought, verbal, and physical sense.

Baras believes that the Testimonium seen by Origen had a neutral tone, and included no negative tone towards Christians, and hence required no reaction from Origen.

A third of the respondents believed disclosing their sexual history would result in a negative reaction, and 30 % had received a negative reaction from a medical professional after identifying themselves as lesbian or bisexual.

The negative of this infinite abstraction would require an entire Encyclopedia, building category by category, dialectically, until it culminated in the category of Absolute Mind or Spirit ( since the German word, ' Geist ', can mean either ' Mind ' or ' Spirit ').

Fischer was the first German historian to support the negative version of the " Sonderweg " or " special path "' interpretation of German history, which holds that the way German culture and society developed from the Reformation onwards ( or from a later time, such as the establishment of the German Reich of 1871 ) inexorably culminated in the Third Reich.

On May 30, 2000, Matt Stum suggested that " stash " could have negative connotations, and suggested instead " geocaching.

* May 28 – Secondo Pia takes the first photographs of the Shroud of Turin and discovers that the image on Shroud itself appears to be a photographic negative.

Early uses of the terms " assassination market " and " market for assassinations " can be found ( in both positive and negative lights ) in 1994's " The Cyphernomicon " by Timothy C. May, a cypherpunk.

* Foster, P., 2001, The potential negative impacts of global climate change on tropical montane cloud forests, Elsevier Science / Earth-Science Review * Bubb, P., May, I., Miles, L., Sayer, J., 2004, Cloud Forest Agenda, UNEP-WCMC, Cambridge, UK, http :// www. unep. wcmc. org / resouces / publicashions / UNEP_WCMC_bio_series / 20. htm

The GSI repeated the experiment with higher sensitivity in three separate runs from April – May 2007, Jan – March 2008, and Sept – Oct 2008, all with negative results and providing a cross section limit of 90 fb.

Fox announced on October 29, 2007 that it would commission a pilot for an American version of Spaced, a project they then scuttled in May 2008 following a generally negative reaction from the series ' creators and fans of the original show.

A May 5, 2009 editorial in The Washington Times contrasted Arbor Day with Earth Day, claiming that Arbor Day was a happy, non-political celebration of trees, whereas Earth Day was a pessimistic, political ideology that portrayed humans in a negative light.

In May 2006, the Irish Nurses Organisation unanimously passed a motion of no confidence in Mary Harney, accusing her of being negative and antagonistic towards nurses.

The conversion of the May brands was met with negative reaction in many of the regions surrounding those department stores because they were widely considered to be beloved local institutions.

However, for the US release on May 28, 1969, Once Upon a Time in the West was edited down to 145 minutes ( 2 hours and 25 minutes ) by Paramount and it was greeted with a mostly negative critical response and was a financial flop.

In December 1999 as a result of negative profit results for two consecutive years along with mounting economic and social pressures, ZCMI was sold to the May Department Stores Company ( now Macy's, Inc .).

Since McElwaine, whom he had tried to please as a friend, was no longer in charge, Beatty eventually relented to letting May cut the film her way, partly because he detested Puttnam and believed he was leaking negative information about Ishtar to the media.

In an interview with Elaine May, Mike Nichols described the bomb as " the prime example that I know of in Hollywood of studio suicide ", implying that Puttnam sandbagged the project by leaking negative anecdotes to the media because of his grudges against Beatty and Hoffman.

In China, the overall political impact of Japan's actions was highly negative, creating a considerable amount of public ill-will towards Japan, resulting in the May Fourth Movement, and a significant upsurge in nationalism.

Frustration with the media generating misleading news stories from the probabilistic forecasts ( such as the " barbecue summer " headlines in May 2009 ), with intense negative publicity from the Met Office's rivals such as Daily Telegraph / Press Association-owned MeteoGroup and with publicity resulting from the low probability predicted for the cold winter of 2009-2010 led the Met Office to stop disseminating their seasonal forecasts to the media in February 2010, although these forecasts are still available for customers.

A lack of success in the following seasons when Liverpool struggled to qualify for the Champions League despite substantial investment in players, with what was perceived as negative one-dimensional tactics and unattractive football, a poor youth policy, his constant mention of " turning corners " and a lack of support from fans led to Houllier's departure from Liverpool on 24 May 2004.

The striking negative image was first observed on the evening of May 28, 1898, on the reverse photographic plate of amateur photographer Secondo Pia, who was allowed to photograph it while it was being exhibited in the Turin Cathedral.

May illustrated the first edition of Little Women, to a negative critical reception.

In April 2005, he opted to retire early, citing health reasons plus a desire to protect the church from negative media publicity, and in May he surrendered his credentials as a minister and withdrew from all ministry in the church.

The zero points of this sine wave are reached at the equinoxes and solstices, while the extrema are at the beginning of February and August ( negative ) and the beginning of May and November ( positive ).

" The blood samples taken from ... Davis ... at Walthamstow on 18 May 1974 were passed on to the Yard's Senior Scientific Officer, Peter Martin, on 21 May and he reported his negative findings to the police officer in charge of the case on 20 June.

Pressure from the Colonial Department on the War Office eventually brought about Meinertzhagen ’ s removal from Africa, as " he had become a negative symbol " and on 28 May 1906 " he found himself on a ship being trundled back to England in disgrace and in disgust.

On Sunday, 24 May 2009, thousands of people crossed the bridge as a part of a protest by the GetAcross group against the fact that after 50 years of existence, the bridge still did not provide walking and cycling access, and against what the group perceives to be the authorities ' negative and obstructionist attitude towards retrofitting such infrastructure.