In a sense by rejecting and negating politics, they were making a political statement. One is merely negating the consumption of alcohol under a particular circumstance. They no longer perform honor-positions, thus totally negating their usefulness to the society. They were supplied by air, thus negating the importance of their lost supply lines. An affirmative defense is different from a "negating defense". A maximization problem can be treated by negating the objective function. If it means, "This statement is not true", then it is negating itself. Hart caught Shamrock's foot, but the latter followed through with an enzuigiri negating either advantage. This distinction can be shown through diverse examples of the negating NPs in Fijian. The skeletal pump is vital in negating orthostatic intolerance when standing. Freefall negating his assumed death at the hands of the Punisher. It affects the incidence matrix by negating the rows of the switched vertices. Any two incidence matrices are related by negating some subset of the columns. In schools they are carrying out intensive communist propaganda, based on negating the truth"". Grammarians find difficulty categorizing negating words, such as the English "not".