| A mayoral spokesman said the ban sends a defeatist message to the rest of the world. |
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| Instead of taking that defeatist attitude, I prefer to valiantly soldier on and find new music that's 100 times more psychedelic or mind-bending. |
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| And during one sequence before a party, we get a real sense of the shared defeatist attitude they have in common. |
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| It's this kind of defeatist attitude which is keeping me away from the national media spotlight. |
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| Letting go of defeatist attitudes that you may not even realize you have is crucial. |
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| This is not a defeatist attitude but one which I feel will salvage something from the wreckage. |
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| Savage realizes that in order to build up his men, he must first break down their defiant, defeatist attitudes. |
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| It is at the back of people's minds but parents are not taking a defeatist attitude. |
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| Keeping warm, romantic ideas close was better than letting the pessimistic, defeatist attitude be victorious within her. |
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| Luckily there were plenty of other sideshows around the convention halls to cheer spirits and exorcise such defeatist sentiments. |
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| Nobody doubts for a second Baron's desperation to revive the national team, and I am not suggesting that he be arraigned for defeatist talk. |
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| Tell me why that ticks you off, makes you feel hopeless, and makes you think I am defeatist trash. |
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| When Lloyd George made a somewhat defeatist speech in Parliament in May 1941, Churchill felt no need to conciliate him. |
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| Just because I'm concerned about the progress of the negotiations doesn't mean I'm a defeatist. |
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| This defeatist attitude then leads him to concentrate on emphasizing post-war humanitarian efforts. |
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| We must urgently counter defeatist tendencies concerning the potential for social integration of ethnic minorities. |
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| It is a defeatist attitude to reject an idea on the grounds that it might have been a good idea if things had been otherwise. |
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| Her paintings were seen as conflictive and defeatist by the revolution's cultural establishment, as well as by fellow faculty members at the art school. |
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| This is defeatist nonsense, not to mention entirely disingenuous, anyway. |
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| There's a tendency to be defeatist, to label and criminalise young people. |
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| A negotiations mindset is required, not a defeatist or cry-baby attitude over the corner of a table. |
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| But their advocacy of the PMP did somewhat denature their revolutionary defeatist propaganda. |
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| What the drys need is a fresh set of generals to replace the defeatist who now lead them. |
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| Although smuggling has always bedeviled the diamond trade, to ignore it, Marriott says, is defeatist. |
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| The minister had said that Kyoto would be an economic disaster, but the world's most prominent economist has condemned his defeatist attitude. |
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| It is time not for defeatist language but for constructive and practical answers. |
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| They counter the defeatist attitude that is running about Europe under the pretence of economic liberalism. |
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| We drew the class line without hiding our criticism of the role of the defeatist, class-collaborationist union bureaucrats. |
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| By no means should we adopt a defeatist attitude and allow ourselves to be swept along by erratic changes in the market. |
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| The current state of internal evaluation in the United Nations therefore rests on this quite downbeat and defeatist note. |
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| Let us, today at least, not be defeatist and let us recognise the positive elements of the steps that have been taken. |
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| By visualizing their performance, athletes will be able to develop specific thought processes to overcome defeatist, stressful attitudes. |
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| This defeatist answer has led to much speculation about who is in charge of Canadian cultural policy, Canadians or American business interests. |
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| I couldn't accept that defeatist attitude and neither could Dad. |
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| And the Republican candidates are indeed attacking him as defeatist and weak. |
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| It would be wrong to perceive such a statement as defeatist. |
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| As a society we blame teens for their defeatist attitude, and yet place them in situations where it is very difficult for them to meet our expectations. |
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| Pamphlets in german and in several dialects are printed by the revolutionaries to serve as tool of defeatist propaganda, and to dislocate austro-german troops serving as watchdogs to the local bourgeoisie. |
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| Is it not better for government to aim high, to rally the nation around a goal which is an international goal, rather than to speak in terms which are defeatist? |
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| At the risk of sounding defeatist or spreading panic, it is a good thing that the EU and the Member States are preparing for the possibility of a bird flu pandemic among humans. |
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| Therein lies the significance of everything that this House's rapporteur, Reiner Böge, has been able to instil in a text that I consider satisfactory and pragmatic, without being defeatist. |
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| We cannot close our eyes to this, but let us not be defeatist. |
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| While the former would be relatively easy, it would inevitably engender academic and political difficulties, and in any case might be seen as a defeatist solution. |
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| Surely these arguments are based on fear, on a narrow view of human nature, and on a defeatist appraisal of our capacity to adapt our society and its institutions to the demands of its citizens. |
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| Some amendments were rejected which sought to strengthen a text that portrays a cowardly and defeatist Europe, certainly not the Europe of the Battle of Lepanto, where the Pope was on the right side. |
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