Sentences with phrase «off in a negative direction»

Not only is a poorly run background screening process costly to the organization it's downright annoying to new employees, and can set their first impressions off in a negative direction.

Once an argument starts off in a negative direction, it very rarely «rights» itself.

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Without negative feedback, a system will tend to have a dynamic much like that of a billiard ball balanced on a knife edge; any minor perturbation will send it hurtling off in one direction or the other.

On the y - axis (vertical), mark off five units in both the positive and negative directions, and on the x-axis (horizontal), do likewise.

«The deposition testimony of Dr. Batchelor indicated that she had determined that the children were affected by parental alienation syndrome («PAS»), a syndrome in which one parent engages in a campaign to break off or minimize a child's contact with the other parent and to shift the child's perception of that other parent in a negative direction.»

While a truly «normal» market remains a ways off, we expect to take more steps in that direction as appreciation moderates, negative equity recedes, federal stimulus is withdrawn and foreclosures wane.»