positive image
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpositiveandimage
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positive
adjective
uk/ˈpɒz.ə.tɪv/us/ˈpɑː.zə.t̬ɪv/
full of hope and confidence, or giving cause for hope ...
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image
noun
uk/ˈɪm.ɪdʒ/us/ˈɪm.ɪdʒ/
a picture in your mind or an idea of how someone or ...
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(Definition ofpositiveandimagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofpositive image
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Firms tell causal stories to overcome this presumption and paint a morepositiveimageof the firm's behavior.
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Undoubtedly some lawyers are trying to eradicate legalese in response to the siren voices of customer care, quality improvement andpositiveimage.
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A program was developed so that it determined fragments sizes of one of the liquids, namely that liquid whose fragments atpositiveimagewere light.
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We also replicated these analyses using a variable measuring thepositiveimageof the president's economic policy.
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Promoting inter-generational solidarity and thepositiveimageof older people are key qualities for the generative success of older people.
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The certainty that there will be an (albeit modest) old-age pension waiting when people reach the age of 65, helps thispositiveimage.
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Measured as the percentage of voters with apositiveimageof the president.
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For these dancers, caring for their appearance is crucial, and they are actively engaged in constructing apositiveimageof themselves.
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Apositiveimageand respect were attached to fishermen's wives as well, who stood by their men.
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In fact, feeling a need to present apositiveimagemay have the opposite effect of spirituality.
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Alternatively, the highanxious children may be more likely to classify mildly happy expressions as threatening as they require stronger signals of happiness to perceive apositiveimage.
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It is extremely important to set out clearly thepositiveimageof ex-ante peer evaluation as an instrument for enriching each research proposal before it is approved for funding.
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At the aggregate level, the most significant variable affecting the congressional rate of approval of presidential initiatives is thepositiveimageof the president among voters.
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The hospital was seen by many reformers as a great social regenerator, and every effort was made to sell a new,positiveimageof it to the public.
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This will help build a morepositiveimageof the sector and attract and retain good quality staff.
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The best recruiting asset a regiment can have is high morale, apositiveimageand satisfied soldiers.
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Individualpositiveimagesessions are no longer available through the women in the national health service management development programme.
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Just as volunteering needs a fresh andpositiveimage, so does political activity, and perhaps the two are not entirely unrelated.
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But in my view, he is basing himself on an excessivelypositiveimageof mankind and society and expects too much of the authorities.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
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