It was an elite, skillfully and ruthlessly controlling demoralized and apathetic masses. |
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Massena attempted to lay siege to Torres Vedras, but after four months his army, starved and demoralized, was forced to retreat. |
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They performed in a responsible manner, and toward the defeated, demoralized Germans they were sensitive, caring and compassionate. |
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His service in Tunisia turned a defeated and demoralized II Corps around and made it proficient for battle in 11 days. |
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The bishops, demoralized by scandal, evangelically illiterate, walked peri passu with the warmaking state. |
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The population was weak and demoralized with a significant number of draft-age men gone. |
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Despite this, the unit does manage to repulse the advancing rebel soldiers, leaving Henry feeling more demoralized than ever. |
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Perhaps Steele and the writers he cites were demoralized by the daunting task of society-wide computation in the pre-digital era. |
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Without the power to say no, all kinds of treachery is used and everyone involved becomes demoralized, cynical and fatalistic. |
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His supporters went into the debate terribly demoralized, afflicted with an industrial-strength dose of buyer's remorse. |
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The life-story perspective reveals a common presentation in patients who have been demoralized and overmastered by circumstances. |
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They embody a demoralized liberalism, whose watered-down perspective of reform has been discarded by the ruling class. |
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But instead of issuing forth to finish off the demoralized Japanese squadron the Russian ships remained safely in harbour. |
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It is a perceptive account of life in an occupied city, in which victors and vanquished alike are corrupted and demoralized. |
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A demoralized and disheartened team could have been expected with this very closely conceded match. |
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He berates the already demoralized employees in a speech of extraordinary viciousness. |
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Thoroughly demoralized by my dream, I was in a state of nervous fright by the time I got to the venue. |
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But, privately, he confided to friends that he was demoralized, even tempted to quit. |
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They were starving, freezing, and demoralized, hunkered down in drafty cabins, waiting to die from disease or Redcoats. |
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Many were killed quickly and the survivors so demoralized that 145 surrendered and were captured. |
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In the repressions following 1905, the underground was demoralized by defeat and ideological wrangling. |
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By most indications, Aidid's supporters were decimated and demoralized the day after the Battle of Mogadishu. |
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After failing to land a job as a journalist, and brief stints as an office temp and clerk typist, Bass was demoralized and returned to North Carolina. |
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Fleeing with other demoralized shreds of the Spanish Armada, the galley had sailed up the eastern coast of England, driven on ahead of the English fleet by gales and storms. |
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Without our most important member, the group had been demoralized. |
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One of the dangers of this election is that Americans will become demoralized and disaffected. |
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Be careful not to become demoralized, as the true levels of opinion from the members, is at the only learned at the moment of an election. |
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Employees can become demoralized when they feel that they are simply being used to further the company's goals. |
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This personnel, on the other hand, could not be allowed to remain idle between conflicts and become demoralized by uselessly awaiting action. |
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Design Note: It is much easier for the Austrian corps to become demoralized than the French. |
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If the Government or the officers tell lies, the whole army will be quickly demoralized. |
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The result is that individuals who wish to conduct their affairs honestly are demoralized and lose faith in the rule of law. |
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The partial mobilization soon revealed the demoralized and unequipped state of the nation's armed forces. |
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On military issues, we well know that our forces are poorly equipped, undermanned, totally demoralized and underfunded. |
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As a result, demoralized and despondent accused persons end up pleading guilty as the only way to end the remand. |
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Once surrounded, the opposing army, demoralized and with no chance of escape, would face the choice of annihilation or surrender. |
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There, by a combination of patience and tact, he successfully led his unpaid, ill-fed, and demoralized troops against the French. |
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Mr. Pat Martin: The civil service is justifiably demoralized after years of the madness of program review. |
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But there were still no quartermaster's stores, and the militia was generally disorganized and demoralized. |
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Educational and correctional measures aim at helping parents and avoiding the minor to be demoralized. |
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They are very likely to have experienced the ignorance and hatred of racism, which leaves them profoundly demoralized or angered. |
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Or the breathless interview with a triumphant or demoralized athlete at trackside? |
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Every one of us can think of a married couple that seemed to have it all, yet a few years were alienated and demoralized. |
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If leadership is a quality that is supposed to inspire trust, confidence and faith, why are your employees so demoralized? |
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They know this is a rotten deal and they are demoralized, running faster and faster with no hope of catching up. |
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But their supply lines were too long, and their army too small, exhausted, and demoralized to achieve its objectives. |
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If you cut Mourdock loose, Governor, values voters are going to be demoralized. |
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If in England it rallied a demoralized citizenry, here in America it validated the Anglophilia of the educated classes and gave British imperialism a good odor. |
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These backup forces are demoralized and headed for the door. |
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Data from the U.S. Department of Education and from several recent university studies show that far from being shy and demoralized, today's girls outshine boys. |
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But exemplary and dedicated teachers surrounded by incompetents will soon grow demoralized, and effective teachers will shun under-performing schools. |
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With most of his U. S. units understrength, his ROKA forces demoralized, and tactical air support insufficient, Walker was forced to fight a stubborn withdrawal into the southeast corner of the Korean peninsula. |
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Unless we do this, our churches will become demoralized. |
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The Ming government became completely demoralized. |
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How many studies do we need to become finally convinced that working these types of shifts leaves people burned out, de-motivated, demoralized and angry. |
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There were numerous problems within the team, and while Johnny Herbert and Roberto Moreno made their names in similar Reynard 88Ds, Alesi struggled, becoming more demoralized as the season wore on. |
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In previous years, he could become demoralized by being behind and not playing well, and was liable to lose several consecutive frames. |
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After years of one humiliating defeat after another, both the military and civil leadership of France were demoralized and discredited. |
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The Norse left as suddenly and as mysteriously as they had arrived, however leaving the Norman army weakened and demoralized. |
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The now isolated and demoralized troops of Maximus were then easily defeated. |
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Those few who returned were demoralized and often disposed to opium addiction. |
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There is nothing more heartbreaking than to see able young staff become demoralized and disenchanted as the path to management is strewn with apparently impassable obstacles. |
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A crisis in leadership had the Taliban demoralized and divided. |
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Individuals who are performing well become demoralized in knowing that they are treated no differently from others whose results do not meet expectations. |
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Again, it was said in the mid-20th century that American youth had been demoralized by such writers as Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner, in that these writers set an example of bad behaviour. |
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They were frightened, demoralized, and economically helpless. |
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In July 1940, Simonds was posted with the 1st Field Regiment of the Royal Canadian Artillery, a demoralized unit just out of the Dunkirk evacuation. |
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The main government authority in Buner is the police, who have become demoralized by their low pay and lack of equipment in the face of the Taliban, Pakistani police officials say. |
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Conflicting stories add to the incompetence of killing a program that worked and bringing in one that has demoralized students and left non-profit organizations sitting by the phone hoping for good news. |
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Results-based education often creates panic among educational stakeholders, who fear the troops may become demoralized or purely cosmetic touches will be applied to increase school performance. |
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De Palma suggests, by contrast, that some soldiers have become demoralized by the incoherent war policy and have fallen into criminal behavior — an unpleasant idea, but hardly, after Abu Ghraib and Haditha, a lie. |
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Patients with primary attention problems often have to deal with failure and may become demoralized, depressed or dysthymic as a result, and in that case they will present with both disorders. |
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In addition to being the theatre of an international political struggle, defeated Germany was severely weakened by the war and, in 1945 to 1946, its population was starving and demoralized. |
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Far from suggesting a demoralized culture, endogamy here seemed the mark of a buoyantly confident group, settled in their skin and not needing outsiders. |
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Tenured faculty aren't circus elephants too demoralized to perform, too persnickety to eat peanuts or too apathetic to do more than gaze longingly at retirement. |
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New diseases weakened and demoralized the indigenous peoples of Siberia. |
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Whether he arrived with Scipio Aemilianus or was already serving in the demoralized army that Scipio Aemilianus took over at Numantia is not clear. |
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