Given a document and an entity the task is to select the author's sentiment towards the entity. Sentiments can be Positive, Neutral and Negative. Select Positive if the article expresses a positive view towards the given entity or praises its quality or skills. Select Neutral if the document 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 article expresses a negative view towards like harsh remarks, criticizing entities action/decision etc. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].

[Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Michel Barnier ? Ministers from the 27 other states took just two minutes in Brussels to endorse new instructions to their negotiator Michel Barnier  who will launch talks soon with the aim of sealing a transition package within a couple of months.
Pressed on how that might work   Barnier  said the offer was principally in Britainâs interests and not open to significant negotiation:
âThe United Kingdom must acknowledge these rules of the game and accept them from the outset â  he  told reporters.
European Union's chief Brexit negotiator  Michel Barnier  attends a meeting of European Union Home/European affairs ministers in Brussels  Belgium January 29  2018. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir
 Barnier  said this timetable was still subject to May and  her  ministers agreeing a plan among themselves and presenting it to Brussels -- and also depends on finalizing many issues on the divorce treaty.
 Barnier  said: âI want to remind you  without agreement on all the withdrawal issues  there is no transition.â
 He  also made clear that talks on the future relationship might start after an EU summit in late March -- but only if May spells out what she wants in time for Brussels to put together its own responses. An outline trade package could then be agreed by the time the divorce and transition deal is ready in October.
Showing some willingness to be flexible  the EU ministers are open to extending the transition period if need be to reach a trade pact -- though  Barnier  warned it could not be very long -- and also voiced a will to endorse Britain concluding trade agreements with other countries before the transition ends.
[A]: Positive


[Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Gordon MacDonald ? Allegations of sexual misconduct against three Dartmouth College professors have resulted in a multi-agency criminal investigation  says  New Hampshire Attorney General Gordon MacDonald .
After  MacDonald 's office contacted Dartmouth  he says  "we have learned from the College that it has received allegations of sexual misconduct."
A multi-agency investigation into the case is now under way  which  MacDonald  says includes both  his  office and the Office of the Grafton County Attorney  along with the New Hampshire State Police  the Grafton County Sheriff's Department and the Hanover Police Department.
 MacDonald 's press release about the case included contact information for investigators on the case  along with lists of services for anyone affected by sexual violence.
[A]: Positive


[Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Bernie Sanders ? Sanders is an Independent , but sides with the Democratic Party . 
-LSB- 1 -RSB- From 2015 through 2016 , Sanders was a Democrat . 
Sanders was born in Brooklyn , New York City . 
Sanders was elected mayor of Burlington , Vermont in 1981 . 
Sanders calls himself a democratic socialist . 
-LSB- 9 -RSB- -LSB- 10 -RSB- During his time as senator , Sanders has been against income inequality and supports universal health care , parental leave and LGBT rights . 
-LSB- 11 -RSB- In January 2015 , Sanders became a member of the Senate Budget Committee . 
On April 30 , 2015 , Sanders became a candidate for the Democratic Party 's nomination for President in the 2016 United States presidential election . 
-LSB- 15 -RSB- Unlike some of the other presidential candidates , Sanders did not want Super PACS to give him money . 
-LSB- 19 -RSB- On July 26 , 2016 , during a roll-call vote at the 2016 Democratic National Convention Sanders lost the nomination to Clinton . 
-LSB- 21 -RSB- In February 2017 , Sanders began webcasting The Bernie Sanders Show on Facebook . 
Sanders was born in Brooklyn , New York to Eli Sanders and to Dorothy Glassberg . 
Sanders studied at Brooklyn College . 
After he graduated from college , Sanders went to the University of Chicago . 
-LSB- 25 -RSB- When he studied in Chicago , Sanders led the University of Chicago sit-ins in 1962 because of segregation at the university . 
Sanders began his political career in 1971 as a member of the Liberty Union Party . 
-LSB- 34 -RSB- In the 1974 Senate election , Sanders lost to Patrick Leahy and to Dick Mallary . 
-LSB- 35 -RSB- In 1979 , Sanders resigned from the party . 
After Sanders 's failed run for governor , close friend Richard Sugarman wanted him to be a candidate for mayor of Burlington . 
-LSB- 38 -RSB- Sanders won the election in February 1981 . 
As mayor , Sanders wanted to fix Burlington 's Lake Champlain . 
-LSB- 39 -RSB- In 1981 , Sanders was against Tony Pomerleau . 
Sanders did not want Pomerleau to change the industrial -LSB- 39 -RSB- lake property owned by the Central Vermont Railway . 
Sanders used the slogan "Burlington is not for sale" . 
In 1987 , U.S. News named Sanders as one of America 's best mayors . 
When he was mayor , Sanders helped to fix the city 's budget . 
-LSB- 25 -RSB- Sanders left office on April 4 , 1989 . 
-LSB- 38 -RSB- For a short time , Sanders taught political science at Harvard University 's Kennedy School of Government in 1989 and at Hamilton College in 1991 . 
Sanders became a candidate for the seat as an Independent , but he lost the election . 
-LSB- 43 -RSB- In 1990 , Sanders became a candidate for the seat again and defeated Peter Plympton Smith by 16 % . 
Sanders became the first independent elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 40 years . 
-LSB- 44 -RSB- Sanders ' 1990 victory was called by The Washington Post and others as the "First Socialist Elected" to the United States House of Representatives in many years . 
-LSB- 45 -RSB- Sanders continued to win re-elections with many votes . 
In 1991 , Sanders co-founded the Congressional Progressive Caucus . 
In 1993 , Sanders voted for a bill supported by the National Rifle Association -LRB- NRA -RRB- to stop lawsuits against gun companies . 
After Ron Dellums left Congress in 1998 , Sanders was the only member of Congress who called himself a socialist . 
Sanders voted against the Iraq Resolutions in 1991 and 2002 . 
Sanders is against the Patriot Act . 
-LSB- 52 -RSB- Sanders voted for several acts that would block the Patriot Act . 
Sanders became senator after Jim Jeffords retired from the Senate in 2006 . 
Sanders has been a leading voice on issues such as income inequality , -LSB- 57 -RSB- climate change , -LSB- 58 -RSB- and campaign finance reform . 
-LSB- 59 -RSB- Sanders continued to be a major critic on mass surveillance policies such as the Patriot Act . 
On December 10 , 2010 , Sanders gave a 8 12 - hour speech against the Tax Relief , Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization , and Job Creation Act of 2010 . 
-LSB- 61 -RSB- After the speech , people wanted Sanders to be a candidate for president in the 2012 presidential election . 
Sanders ' filibuster was published in February 2011 by Nation Books as The Speech : A Historic Filibuster on Corporate Greed and the Decline of Our Middle Class . 
On January 3 , 2013 , Sanders became chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Veterans ' Affairs . 
-LSB- 6 -RSB- After his term as chairman ended on January 3 , 2015 , Sanders became a member of the Senate Budget Committee . 
-LSB- 12 -RSB- -LSB- 64 -RSB- Sanders made proposals to raise the minimum wage , stop income inequality , and increase Social Security payments . 
Sanders is the longest serving Independent member of Congress in American history . 
-LSB- 6 -RSB- In November 2015 , Sanders changed parties and became a member of the Democratic Party . 
-LSB- 3 -RSB- On July 26 , 2016 , however shortly after losing the Democratic presidential nomination , Sanders said he would serve as an Independent in the Senate . 
Following Donald Trump 's victory in the 2016 presidential election , Sanders accepted his victory and promised to work with Trump . 
On January 4 , 2017 , while on the Senate floor , Sanders showed a large cutout of a tweet by President-elect Trump from May 2015 where Trump said he was the "first & only potential GOP candidate" who opposed any cuts to Social Security , Medicare and Medicaid , citing it as what Trump appealed to older voters to elect him on . 
While in Los Angeles on February 19 , Sanders called Trump "a pathological liar" . 
On March 30 , two days after President Trump signed an "Energy Independence" executive order , Sanders called Trump 's choice to focus on job creation over climate change is "nonsensical , and stupid , and dangerous" . 
Sanders was against the nomination of Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court . 
Sanders said he believed Gorsuch would support removing restrictions on campaign finance and would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade . 
On April 7 , 2017 , Sanders showed disapproval of President Trump 's ordered airstrike from the day before : "If there 's anything we should 've learned from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan , in which the lives of thousands of brave American men and women and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi and Afghan civilians have been lost and trillions of dollars spent , it 's that it 's easier to get into a war than out of one ." 
In May 2017 , Sanders endorsed Labour Leader of the Opposition Jeremy Corbyn in the 2017 United Kingdom general election . 
-LSB- 74 -RSB- The bill was opposed only by Sanders and Republican Rand Paul . 
On June 14 , 2017 , James T. Hodgkinson , a supporter of Sanders during his presidential campaign , shot and injured four people , including House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana . 
-LSB- 75 -RSB- -LSB- 76 -RSB- Hours later , Sanders responded on Capitol Hill to news that Hodgkinson was a campaign volunteer for his 2016 presidential run : . 
In September 2017 , Sanders introduced the United States National Health Care Act which would create a single-payer health care system paid by the United States Government . 
In August 2011 , Public Policy Polling found that 67 % of American people supported Sanders . 
-LSB- 80 -RSB- In a poll by Fox News in March 2017 , found Sanders to be the most popular senator or political figure in the United States with the approval rating of 61 % . 
-LSB- 81 -RSB- A Harvard-Harris Poll published April 18 , 2017 found Sanders to be the most popular active politician in the country . 
Main page : Bernie Sanders presidential campaign , 2016 . 
In an interview with The Nation on March 6 , 2014 , Sanders said that he was "prepared to run for President of the United States" in 2016 -LSB- 83 -RSB- but did not officially announce a campaign . 
On April 28 , 2015 , Vermont Public Radio said that Sanders would run for president starting on April 30 . 
-LSB- 85 -RSB- Weaver was also Sanders 's senate campaign manager and was his chief of staff . 
Sanders ' campaign events have brought many people from around the country . 
-LSB- 17 -RSB- -LSB- 86 -RSB- -LSB- 87 -RSB- Sanders said he was "Stunned . 
-LSB- 18 -RSB- However , on June 25 , 2015 , The New York Times said that Sanders might win the primaries instead of Clinton . 
-LSB- 18 -RSB- On August 12 , 2015 , the Boston Herald said that Sanders was winning by 44 % to Clinton 's 37 % in New Hampshire among Democratic primary voters . 
-LSB- 88 -RSB- A poll released on August 25 , 2015 , showed that Sanders was once again winning in New Hampshire with 42 % to Clinton 's 35 % . 
During his campaign , Sanders was known for his popularity among millennials and young voters . 
-LSB- 91 -RSB- In the 2016 campaign , Sanders won more votes among those under age 30 than both Trump and Clinton combined . 
It shows more than 2 million young people cast ballots for Sanders before the primaries in June . 
-LSB- 91 -RSB- His popularity led to the creation a Facebook political meme page Bernie Sanders ' Dank Meme Stash which has gained popularity among his supporters and the internet . 
A poll released in September 2015 showed that Sanders was leading Clinton in Iowa with 41 % to Clinton 's 40 % . 
-LSB- 93 -RSB- In October 2015 , polling showed Sanders and Clinton were tied in polls in both New Hampshire and Iowa . 
-LSB- 94 -RSB- In November 2015 , a poll showed Sanders was increasing his numbers in New Hampshire , almost tied with Clinton . 
-LSB- 95 -RSB- On November 19 , 2015 , Sanders gave a speech at Georgetown University about his views on democratic socialism . 
-LSB- 96 -RSB- In his speech , Sanders talked about how the policies of presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson were based on democratic socialism . 
On December 3 , 2015 , a Quinnipiac University poll found Sanders to be the Democratic candidate more likely to win the presidential election against top Republican candidates such as Donald Trump , Jeb Bush , Marco Rubio , Ted Cruz and Ben Carson . 
-LSB- 98 -RSB- On December 4 , 2015 , after online voting ended , votes showed that Sanders was in first place to become Time 's 2015 Person of the Year . 
-LSB- 100 -RSB- On December 7 , Time announced that Sanders won the reader 's poll of the magazine , but he would not be person of the year . 
-LSB- 101 -RSB- On December 9 , poll numbers showed that Sanders was leading Clinton in the New Hampshire polls by 50 % to 40 % . 
-LSB- 102 -RSB- The university also showed Clinton was winning with 61 % to Sanders 's 30 % of the national poll . 
In January 2016 , in weeks leading to the Democratic primaries , Sanders was leading New Hampshire by 50 % to Clinton 's 46 % and in Iowa with 49 % to 43 % . 
-LSB- 104 -RSB- -LSB- 105 -RSB- On January 21 , 2016 , Sanders ' campaign advertisement , America , was shown in Iowa and New Hampshire . 
In early February 2016 , a national poll showed Sanders and Clinton almost tied with Clinton 's 44 % to Sanders ' 42 % in the national poll . 
-LSB- 103 -RSB- A few weeks later , Quinnipiac University , CNN and Fox News poll numbers showed Sanders being the front-runner with 47 % to Clinton 's 44 % of the national poll . 
-LSB- 107 -RSB- After the Nevada caucus , new poll numbers showed Sanders 's national lead growing with 42 % to Clinton 's 36 % . 
-LSB- 108 -RSB- A February 2016 Quinnipiac University poll found that Sanders was the most honest candidate in the election . 
On March 8 , 2016 , Sanders won the Michigan Democratic primary . 
In early April 2016 , national poll numbers showed Sanders winning by 49 % to Clinton 's 47 % . 
-LSB- 112 -RSB- On April 8 , Sanders was asked by Vatican City to talk about the issues of income inequality and the environment . 
-LSB- 113 -RSB- Sanders agreed to the invitation and spoke at the Vatican on April 15 . 
-LSB- 114 -RSB- In April 2016 , Sanders was added into Time 's 100 Most Influential People of 2016 . 
In May 2016 , national poll numbers showed Sanders loosing to Clinton with 45 % to Clinton 's 50 % with 5 % people undecided . 
-LSB- 116 -RSB- On May 3 , 2016 , Sanders pulled another political upset after beating Clinton in the Indiana primaries by six percent . 
-LSB- 117 -RSB- On May 10 , 2016 , Sanders won the West Virginia primaries by 51.4 % to Clinton 's 35.8 % . 
A NBCWall Street Journal poll in May found Clinton and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump in a tie , but the same poll found that if Sanders were the Democratic nominee , 53 % of voters would support him to 39 % for Trump . 
-LSB- 120 -RSB- Clinton and Trump were the least popular likely candidates in the poll 's history , while Sanders received a 43 % positive with a 36 % negative rating . 
-LSB- 122 -RSB- Sanders said he will still remain in the race until the Democratic Party convention in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania in July 2016 . 
-LSB- 123 -RSB- On July 12 , 2016 , Sanders announced his support for Clinton at a unity rally in New Hampshire . 
On July 22 , 2016 , WikiLeaks revealed that DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz and other DNC official , mocked and planned to sabotage the Sanders 's campaign in favor of Clinton . 
-LSB- 124 -RSB- Sanders said he wanted Schultz to resign . 
Sanders spoke on the first night of the Democratic Convention on July 25 , 2016 . 
-LSB- 125 -RSB- In his speech , Sanders told his supporters that he thanked them and to vote for Clinton to defeat Donald Trump in the general election . 
-LSB- 126 -RSB- On July 26 , 2016 , during a roll-call vote at the 2016 Democratic National Convention Sanders lost the nomination to Clinton . 
On February 1 , 2016 , Sanders lost the Iowa caucus to Clinton by less than 1 % . 
-LSB- 127 -RSB- On February 9 , Sanders won the New Hampshire caucus by 22 % . 
-LSB- 129 -RSB- Sanders became the first democratic socialist and the first non-Christian to win a United States presidential primary for a major party . 
-LSB- 130 -RSB- On February 20 , 2016 , Sanders lost the Nevada caucus by 5 % . 
-LSB- 131 -RSB- On February 27 , 2016 , Sanders lost the South Carolina primary by almost 48 % . 
On March 1 , 2016 , "Super Tuesday" , Sanders won four states : Vermont , Oklahoma , Colorado and Minnesota . 
-LSB- 133 -RSB- On March 5 , 2016 , "Super Saturday" , Sanders won two states : Kansas by 35 % and Nebraska by almost 15 % . 
-LSB- 136 -RSB- On March 6 , 2016 , Sanders won the Maine caucuses by almost 65 % . 
-LSB- 137 -RSB- On March 8 , 2016 , Sanders lost the Mississippi primaries by 65 % . 
-LSB- 138 -RSB- On the same day , Sanders won the Michigan primaries by 2 % . 
-LSB- 139 -RSB- On March 12 , 2016 , Sanders lost the Northern Mariana Islands caucus by 20 % . 
-LSB- 140 -RSB- On March 15 , 2016 , Sanders lost the Florida , North Carolina , Ohio , Illinois , and Missouri primaries . 
On March 21 , 2016 , Sanders won the Democrats Abroad primary with 69 % to Clinton 's 31 % . 
-LSB- 146 -RSB- On March 23 , 2016 , Sanders won the Idaho primaries and the Utah caucus . 
-LSB- 147 -RSB- On March 26 , 2016 , Sanders won the Washington , Alaska and the Hawaii caucuses all by landslide victories . 
On April 5 , 2016 , Sanders won the Wisconsin primaries with 57 % to Clinton 's 43 % of the vote . 
-LSB- 149 -RSB- On April 9 , 2016 , Sanders won the Wyoming caucuses with 56 % to Clinton 's 44 % . 
-LSB- 150 -RSB- On April 19 , 2016 , Sanders lost the New York primaries with 42 % to Clinton 's 58 % . 
-LSB- 151 -RSB- On April 26 , 2016 , Sanders lost the Maryland , Delaware , Pennsylvania , and Connecticut primaries . 
On May 3 , 2016 , Sanders won the Indiana primaries with 53 % to Clinton 's 47 % of the vote . 
-LSB- 158 -RSB- On May 10 , 2016 , Sanders won the West Virginia primaries with 51 % to Clinton 's 36 % of the vote . 
-LSB- 159 -RSB- On May 17 , 2016 , Sanders lost the Kentucky primaries by less than 1 % . 
On June 4 , 2016 , Sanders lost the U.S. Virgin Islands caucus in a landslide . 
-LSB- 162 -RSB- On June 5 , 2016 , Sanders lost the Puerto Rico primaries . 
-LSB- 163 -RSB- On June 7 , 2016 , Sanders lost the primaries in New Jersey , New Mexico , South Dakota , and California . 
-LSB- 168 -RSB- -LSB- 169 -RSB- On June 14 , 2016 , Sanders lost the Washington , D.C. primaries , the last primary of the election season , with 20 % to Clinton 's 80 % . 
In August 2016 , Sanders founded Our Revolution . 
-LSB- 171 -RSB- Sanders also plans to establish The Sanders Institute , which will focus on issues he believes the "corporate media" has failed to focus on . 
On December 19 , 2016 during the voting of the electoral college , Sanders got three electoral votes from electors who did not want to vote for Clinton . 
Noam Chomsky said in a May 2017 BBC interview that the Sanders campaign was the most remarkable thing about the 2016 election because of Sanders not accepting money from business people or corporations . 
Sanders had been asked many times if he would run for president again in the 2020 presidential election . 
-LSB- 176 -RSB- Sanders would respond by stating "it is much too early to talk about that" , but refuses to rule out a possible second presidential campaign . 
After a poll was made in February 2017 , 20 % of Democratic voters wanted Sanders to be the party 's nominee in the 2020 presidential election leading Hillary Clinton at 17 % and Elizabeth Warren at 15 % . 
-LSB- 177 -RSB- In March 2017 , at 14 % , Sanders was the Democratic voters front-runner for the Democratic nomination in 2020 beating Michelle Obama at 11 % . 
-LSB- 178 -RSB- In September 2017 , at a polling of 28 % , Sanders remained the lead candidate for the Democratic Party nominee in the 2020 election beating Warren , former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator from California Kamala Harris . 
Sanders married Deborah Shiling in 1964 . 
-LSB- 6 -RSB- He met his second wife , Jane O'Meara , when Sanders became mayor of Burlington , Vermont in 1981 . 
-LSB- 180 -RSB- Sanders has a son , Levi Sanders , who was born out of wedlock with his domestic partner Susan Campbell Mott . 
-LSB- 6 -RSB- Sanders and Mott were partners only one year before splitting in 1969 . 
-LSB- 180 -RSB- Sanders has three step-children from O'Meara : Dave , Carina and Heather Driscoll . 
In 1987 , when Sanders was mayor , he recorded an album called We Shall Overcome . 
-LSB- 182 -RSB- In 1997 , Huck Gutman and Sanders wrote a political memoir called Outsider in the White House . 
-LSB- 183 -RSB- It was published again in 2015 during Sanders ' presidential campaign . 
Sanders had a small role in the 1988 movie Sweet Hearts Dance . 
-LSB- 185 -RSB- On February 6 , 2016 , Sanders was a guest-star on Saturday Night Live . 
Sanders says he is "proud to be Jewish" but is not very religious . 
Sanders says he feels "very close to the teachings of Pope Francis ," . 
Sanders wrote a memoir titled , Our Revolution : A Future to Believe In , which was released on November 15 , 2016 . 
Sanders received an Honorary degree from Brooklyn College on May 30 , 2017 . 
On November 30 , 2015 , Sanders had a hernia surgery at the George Washington University Hospital in Washington , D.C. . 
In December 2016 , Sanders had skin cancer removed from his cheek . 
-LSB- 194 -RSB- This was after Brady Toensing , Donald Trump 's campaign chairman in Vermont , accused Sanders of bank fraud . 
-LSB- 195 -RSB- Both CBS and Politico reported that Bernie Sanders was also under investigation , -LSB- 196 -RSB- however that was not true . 
-LSB- 197 -RSB- Both Sanders and his wife have hired well known defense lawyers to represent them . 
Sanders is a democratic socialist . 
Sanders is a supporter of paternity leave , sick leave , and vacation time . 
-LSB- 206 -RSB- Sanders thinks that global warming is real and he wants to fix it . 
-LSB- 208 -RSB- Sanders was against the U.S. invasion of Iraq . 
Sanders is more liberal on social issues such as supporting same-sex marriage , citizenship for illegal immigrants and abortion . 
-LSB- 210 -RSB- On November 15 , 2015 , in response to ISIS ' attacks in Paris , Sanders said : "We -LSB- have got to -RSB- be tough , not stupid ," in the war against ISIS . 
After Donald Trump 's victory in the 2016 presidential elections , Sanders said that the Democratic Party needs a "series of reforms" and "must break loose from its corporate establishment ties and , once again , become a grass-roots party of working people , the elderly and the poor ."
[A]:
Neutral