Sentences with word «defeatist»

Indigenous peoples continually confront negative stereotypes and defeatist attitudes about our abilities and capacity.

«There's a kind of defeatist mentality about the academic record,» says Dan Bauer, CEO of The MBA Exchange.

Until Roma, Napoli and whoever else challenges for the Scudetto changes their approach and defeatist mentality, Juve's domestic dominance will continue.

In promoting the idea among Esperanto - skeptical audiences, I think it helps to promote a vote open to existing languages as well, as indeed many in at least the U.S. are very smugly defeatist in their view of Esperanto as a failure (despite the fact that financing, changing conditions, or more significantly, legislation to require it in at least some bloc or other, could possibly turn the numbers around for Esperanto).

It is during such trying moments that most children develop an unhealthy defeatist mindset made even worse with a negative outlook.

Although I remain downbeat about Tory prospects I'm not defeatist.

Wage a war against defeatist thoughts.

It was also to bleak and defeatist for my tastes.Shepard never would have been talked down by Starchilds flawed logic, «I created synthetics to kill you and prevent you from creating synthetics that will kill you» Hopefully in April the dlc will win back my trust in Bioware / EA.

When we see the true greatness and the depth of the call to celibacy, or chastity under vow, then the bleatings to allow the poor lonely, loveless priests to marry seem so defeatist, blind and niggardly.

Clerical triumphalists and lay defeatists start from the same principle and make the same claim for the Church's ministry.

I am sorry if this sounds defeatist Arsenal fans, but I think it is purely realistic and we may as well make the best of a bad situation don't you think?

There is manufactured conflict between Ray and an outspoken defeatist who dismisses everyone else's ideas.

Forget «low pressure», defeatist ideas.

We spend so much of our time, energy and money on attracting and keeping clients that the thought of firing one seems defeatist.

Challengers of these religious patriots are called defeatists and enemies of the country.

The first war to be won is the battle inside the salesperson against defeatist thoughts.

the second: divorcees are weak, wimpy, defeatist ingrates yeah I haven't seen anything about this, granted I've only been subscribed to matt's blog for a few months now, but the closest I've seen to that is a general message that maybe you should try just a little harder to be with the love of your life

Yet there is little rationale for buying into such defeatist talk and every reason to look forward to the day, not that far off, when science will come to a naturalized, quantitative and predictive understanding of consciousness and its place in the universe.»

I say 2 - 1 rather than 2 - 0 because I think that I'd probably be feeling rather defeatist had we been two down and the nerves would probably not be as great.

That might be a relief to the many defeatists on the Labour side.

Using the capitalists standard to measure your performance is not only defeatist, it always makes you more dangerous than the capitalists.

There's nothing defeatist about Engel & Völkers.

Jack Kemp brought a great deal of optimism to the often dreary and defeatist world of conservative politics.

Present USA = Moral defeatists just like Sodomites.

``... those who saw the risen Christ remained persuaded that life was worth living and death a triviality — an attitude curiously unlike that of the modern defeatist, who is firmly persuaded that life is a disaster and death (rather inconsistently) a major catastrophe.»

If all you've got is a bunch of mealy - mouthed defeatist bullsh1t, then you SUCK!

Here we go... The same defeatist sh1t every year, and what happens?

If you are going to be a whiny defeatist little bitch and try to organize «protests» and «boycotts» and whatever other stunts that will undermine team morale, please change your allegiance to another team.

I know it sounds a bit defeatist but be logical for a second.

Hmm I'm normally defeatist around this time thinking it's all done and dusted but I can't help but think the Benzema thing may yet happen.

To say that we can't win anything apart from the cups shows you have a completely defeatist attitude.

Defeatist red - and - white GO PRO BO bumper stickers answer Auburn fans» GO BO GO ones.

But hey, why not act like complete idiots instead, create an atmosphere of toxic hostility, fly banners and organize pathetic, defeatist protests and media spectacles that embarrasses everyone associated with the club and see how well that works in propelling your team to victory.

If they start booing their own players or fly a banner that basically says «you'll lose» or some other defeatist antic to undermine their own team then Arsenal's «mental fragility» will return.

He seemed to make little impression at the Stadium of Light where his apparent defeatist and morose attitude guided the Black Cats to a tame bottom placed finish.

=== «Gordon Brown: no ideas and no regrets ---------- Under his leadership Labour has become a rotten, defeatist rabble»

Jackson and Baker were joined in their chorus of criticism by Ukip leader Nigel Farage, who declared: «This is utterly defeatist and negative.

Many in Westminster reckoned that Lawson was taking his cue from the Daily Mail, which published a scathing editorial this morning calling Hammond «dismal, defeatist [and] relentlessly negative» and even went as far as suggesting that he could be replaced by Jacob Rees Mogg.

Brown presides over a party that has flipped from triumphalist to defeatist within less than two years.

«One of the most heartbreaking things was these young people's fatalism and defeatist outlook on life — they thought there was no future for them other than dying young or going to prison,» Berdychevsky said.

Nobody likes a pessimistic defeatist, this will only give of an impression that your a complaining wet blanket which I don't think is a quality anyone is looking for from your online dating profile.

Marlo, once she gives birth to her daughter, begins to exhibit selfish and self - defeatist behavior that brings to mind that of Theron's character in Reitman and Cody's previous collaboration, Young Adult, but Marlo's conduct is more intriguingly sketched throughout Tully — understood to stem from her frustration at not being able to protect and provide for her children in the way she wants.

The movie's best scenes are the tense family exchanges between the nervously emboldened Gen and the hardened, defeatist Ariki, who has grimly violent initiation plans for Mana.

Martin Freeman (the heartsick Everyclerk of The Office) plays Arthur Dent, a self - defeatist schmo who awakens to find his house about to be demolished by crafty city planners.

Fine performances fill the screen, with John Hurt giving one of his best as a man who is crumbled by inner doubts and defeatist realizations.

Not liking the odds, Jane treats the first few days on assignment like a paid vacation, dozing off during strategy meetings and offering nothing but defeatist naysaying in the face of the team's plan of attack.