I'd asked for identification twice and got a negative answer both times.

"To that question I would give a very clear negative answer."

It seemed that I'd come a long, painful way for a negative answer.

Yet Beijing's negative answer did not come as a real surprise.

A negative answer would probably have meant death for Luke and herself.

She received over 1500 letters from magazine readers, without a single negative answer among them.

This shows that the second question has a negative answer.

It took many years for the problem to be solved with a negative answer.

Given the outcome, everything seems to point to a negative answer.

Two very recent traumatic experiences probably provide a negative answer.