Staff are demoralised, not least because local councils have eroded library opening hours and consequently cut shift allowances. |
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Instead of getting on with something useful, managers will be delayed and demoralised by a blizzard of forms to fill in. |
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In principle, the steady drone of flat, slack sentences reproduces the demoralised world they depict, not the limits of the writer's talent. |
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The working class in Russia shrank to just over 1 million, atomised, demoralised, declassed. |
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Dr Trevor Pickersgill, a specialist registrar in neurology in Swansea, said that doctors were demoralised by unattributed briefings. |
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Thirdly, why we should perhaps not be too dispirited and demoralised about public life. |
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But, yet again, I failed miserably and came away feeling dejected, disheartened, deflated and demoralised. |
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The parents and the teachers tend to compare their wards with their counterparts and as a result the child is demoralised in front of others. |
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The principal of a south Armagh primary school broken into over the weekend says he is demoralised by the destruction left by the thieves. |
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It would have been a slur on their professionalism had they been seen to be demoralised by the departure of a mere youth. |
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The effect of the pandemic is greatly felt in the agricultural sector in terms of diminished and demoralised manpower. |
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This criticism was said to have demoralised staff and caused a split between them and councillors. |
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If we cannot appreciate our achievements we will become demoralised and unhappy. |
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Overconfidence in their chances of taking the demoralised Army side proved to be the downfall of the Navy men. |
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Caste has ruined the Hindu race and has destroyed, demoralised and devitalised Hindu society. |
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Barton were by now completely demoralised and Malton put on an exhibition of skills which were of the highest order. |
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And it just demoralised me totally when he would speak to me that way because I decided that I was doing everything in my power that I could to do what he wanted. |
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This was further compounded by the fact that Victorian children moved up to twenty corves per day, whilst being sick, malnourished and demoralised in many cases. |
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But at just 39 years old the family doctor is so demoralised with his inability to care for his patients properly that he is leaving the profession altogether. |
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In the beginning, I was in tears after every lesson and felt demoralised. |
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The party must re-group and must galvanise its demoralised membership. |
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While one player may be invigorated by a brisk dressing-down, another may be demoralised and unwilling to give his best for a boss who doesn't seem to appreciate his talents. |
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If so, Britain's tatty universities and demoralised dons may have a long wait for the hoped-for megabucks. |
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The industry has been demoralised by low prices, cheap imports and a low price for wool. |
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It is vital to play by the rules, otherwise the committee members and the organisers are likely to become demoralised. |
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In ten minutes time the Hun attack was completely demoralised, and in less then half an hour he was driven to earth and shelter. |
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But demoralised, and with its old gushers of money from South Korea's conglomerates, the chaebol, drying up, it could easily fragment. |
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The police and security services long controlled by Mr Yanukovych's son are demoralised and sabotaging orders from people they see as usurpers. |
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The stronger will to fight is also due to the fact that youth is less demoralised. |
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There is a severe lack of trained teachers, and teachers in post feel unsupported and demoralised. |
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It also demoralised younger officers and put many young men off the idea of a military career. |
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These battles were a failure, the units employed in them destroyed and demoralised. |
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The singles failed to make any kind of impact, however, and the young singer found himself demoralised and playing to half-empty halls. |
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In general, the Arab countries are becoming ever more demoralised and positions are hardening. |
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She was completely demoralised after a meeting with a lawyer who told her that the chances of getting papers were extremely slim. |
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Valencia did not look like champions and had arrived demoralised after a first league defeat last Sunday and a 5-1 walloping from Internazionale in Europe. |
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If the report stops teachers feeling demoralised and allows them to focus on their work there will be a knock-on effect for pupils, and that's good. |
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We, however, lay drained and demoralised at its feet, with one remaining Allen screw boring a hole in our nerves. |
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They, but also the public around them, can then become demoralised. |
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Work conditions make teachers demotivated and demoralised. |
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We could feel demoralised in the face of so many failures and of violence. |
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Because defence budgets in European countries fall far short of the level required and are often confined to what it takes to maintain the strict minimum, equipment has become outdated and the armed forces are demoralised. |
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Many public sector employees are demoralised by inadequate pay and the feeling that their achievements go unrecognised in either remuneration or career prospects. |
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Both sides featured several changes to the usual starting eleven and appeared demoralised and lacking energy, which is so often the case in these third-place consolation contests. |
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Mate now more demoralised than either of men. |
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I hope that we will not be demoralised by this and will keep our line. |
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Cutbacks are also being made in spending on projects for furthering the peace process in the Middle East, and on projects for reintegrating demoralised soldiers and refugees into society. |
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This confidence is reflected internally, where the state's policies, of repression galore and some selective clemency, have born bitter fruit. Iran's reformist opposition limps on, but is quiescent and demoralised. |
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He said the prospects of successfully countering tax dodging were dismal because of the demoralised and understaffed state of the tax inspection service. |
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Previously, there was pride and pleasure taken in being part of a universally admired institution, but now staff are frequently demoralised by the unceasing criticism. |
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But for many universities, especially in Britain and elsewhere in Europe, a more accurate emblem would include slummy buildings, dog-eared books and demoralised dons. |
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We do recognise that many teachers are also demoralised, discouraged and unmotivated due to the lack of support from the education authorities, harsh living and working conditions and many other reasons. |
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Wellesley then forced Soult's demoralised and battered army into a fighting retreat into France, punctuated by battles at the Pyrenees, Bidassoa and Nivelle. |
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Demoralised by the loss of its admiral and seriously short of food, the fleet returned to Plymouth. |
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