Given a sentence and an entity, the task is to select the authors sentiment towards the enity. Sentiments can be Positive, Neutral and Negative. Select Positive if the sentence expresses a positive view towards the given entity or praises its quality or skills. Select Neutral if the sentence expresses no clear view towards the entity or has equal amounts of positive and negative statements or expressing some fact/quote by someone else. Select Negative if the sentence expresses a negative view towards like harsh remarks, criticizing entities action/decision etc. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].

[EX Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Patrick Meehan ? "Unfortunately  recent events concerning my office and the settlement of certain harassment allegations have become a major distraction "  he  wrote. "I need to own it because it is my own conduct that fueled the matter."
[EX A]: Negative

[EX Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Hillary Clinton ?  Clinton  in an interview taped before an audience at George Washington University  said a team of technical experts would meet later this month "to see how to put into action what we certainly believed was an agreement in principle."
[EX A]: Positive

[EX Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Carles Puigdemont ?  Puigdemont  told the BBC  he  would ask the regionâs parliament to declare independence following the referendum  which Spainâs government and constitutional court say was illegal and in which only a minority of Catalans voted.
[EX A]:
Neutral