Sentences with phrase «not defeatist»

So is it not defeatist to believe there's no middle ground between killing and hoarding?

Certainly Coach Riendeau is not a defeatist.

Not exact matches

At the same time, he did not allow his self - skepticism to become weak resignation, and he managed to be humble about his plans and decisions without being passive and defeatist.

We must not be defeatist and cry that the whole Church is heading for disaster, but neither should we have the childish idea of a crazy avant - garde that the Church should move ever faster, that what has been achieved is nothing and that everything that is new in the Church is but a modest beginning leading to unheard - of things.

As the actual Church in fact does not fulfill it, does not advocate concrete social demands energetically enough, does not dissociate itself radically or quickly enough from dying social forms, does not stigmatize nuclear warfare profoundly enough (all this according to the opinion of these Christians, which objectively is by no means necessarily false), they experience one disappointment after another in regard to the Church, protest against it, hurt and irritated, and turn into lay defeatists.

Someone else who is no defeatist may be of the opinion that the Church's ministry has not yet sufficiently thought out afresh these despised principles for them to be likely to be accepted.

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

When a realistic analysis produces a gloomy picture, I am nonetheless not prepared to be a defeatist.

It is not strange that in a city straining every faculty toward the very faint hope of survival, such a line as Jeremiah's would be regarded not merely with distaste, but as defeatist if not downright seditious.

This article seems to imply we can not win the EPL unless Mourhino is out of the picture and as saddening and defeatist as it sound I agree with the summation.......

Don't know about anyone else but I can see Sanchez playing with that defeatist look already..!!!

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?

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

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.

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.

Whether or not you can win the league you still have to play the remaining games, and playing them with a defeatist attitude is hardly going to help.

Bundesliga teams haven't been quite as a defeatist since the Catalan's departure but few have seen fit to go toe - to - toe with Bayern to the extent that Heiko Herrlich's Leverkusen did on Tuesday night.

I'm not at all impressed with Jose Mourinho's defeatist attitude, nor his tactics in previous duels with Barcelona.

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

I won't even talk much about the defeatist angle from which Dr. Bawumia took on President Mahama, saying that the «brighter days ahead» mantra has been overused by since 2009 by the Mahama - led administration to deceive Ghanaians» or that «President Mahama is «hoodwinking» Ghanaians by citing some supposed achievements when in fact he has achieved less relative to the amount of money borrowed for infrastructural projects.»

Of course the cynics and the defeatists will say it can't be done, that we're stuck in some inevitable decline.

Trying not to have a defeatist attitude right now.

Not with that defeatist attitude.

I have many Influencer and Blogger friends (myself included sometimes) struggling with anything from not feeling pretty / good enough, instagram algorithms, likes, work... But sometimes it feels as though we're in a whirlwind of negativity which can be self perpetuating and defeatist!

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.

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.

It's defeatist to think that schools can't do anything to help their students make progress toward that lofty objective.

In his State of the State address in January, Gov. Mitch Daniels said the full implementation of the IREAD - 3 exam this year will «end the cruel, defeatist practice of passing children who can not read into fourth grade.»

By denigrating the movement to end shelter killing as akin to warehousing and abuse, and by ignoring the protocols of shelters which have truly achieved No Kill, these naysayers not only do so to provide political cover for their own killing but in order to embrace a nation of shelters grounded in killing — a defeatist mentality, inherently unethical and antithetical to animal welfare.

His work introduces the idea of a defeatist hermeticism: total, and yet not reassuring.

These coupling mechanisms are in my view wrongly being called feedbacks in their own right, (and not only by defeatist hysterics like McPherson) when in fact they function interactively as direct drivers of the majors listed above.

Environmentalists won't say this for fear of sounding alarmist or defeatist.

«The Institute of Mechanical Engineer's can't do, won't do attitude is sending out a defeatist message ahead of the crucial climate change talks in Copenhagen.

In this context, for «intellectuals» and «politicians», think «supporters of ABS» and for «defeatist doctrines» think of the nonsense «selling out to cartels because we can't innovate by ourselves».

Again, try not to be too detailed and avoid sounding defeatist.

That insight is not meant to make you a defeatist, but to help steel you.

I believe there is more than one avenue of discussion associated with BBA, part of which I noted in regard to public expectation (s)-- and how the whole industry driving - apparatus got started in the first place with rules and regs being put in place that we now find perhaps do not any longer apply as they were originally intended, and certainly appear to be defeatist in regard to BBA.

In our intial dealings with the Competiton Bureau and with CREA ® taking the lead, we displayed a defeatist attitude that was either as a result of our front line people not fully understanding our business or not believing that the law would favour private Industry over government or perhaps, a combination of the two.