It's symptomatic of this disposable mentality society where nothing's for keeps and everything can be changed. |
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Jiang doesn't soften his depiction of the chaotic, hysterical wartime mentality, when anything can happen, and the worst thing probably will. |
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At tournaments he will always bring a competitive edge, that winning mentality. |
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It's amazing how the mob mentality took over thousands of normally peaceful people. |
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Winners breed a winning mentality and their success can encourage others to take up the sport. |
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Next week will see the gates of Unionism come crushing down, be prepared to see the siege mentality go into hyper speed. |
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Inter lacks a coach with a winning mentality, who knows how to develop attractive football. |
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It is a breeding ground for drug and alcohol abuse, domestic violence and gang mentality. |
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This kind of mentality has led many previously clean officials to try their luck before their retirement. |
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I pity the mentality of the sickos who tried, in futility, to piggyback on the admiration that the Red Fort evokes. |
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The shop was staffed initially by her five children, who all learned the business and a service mentality at their mother's knee. |
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They may feel that the mentality is right but party politics is involved and that's when the barbarism gets really dangerous. |
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My first mistake was applying a blue-water mentality to a littoral environment. |
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I hope that the slash-and-burn mentality of some commentators is not the way they are going to go. |
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It is that mentality that has made the grammar schools the Cinderellas of the Five Year Plan. |
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Their ever-shorter skirts and tight blouses might look rebellious, but their pack mentality guarantees their slavery to fashion. |
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It is a vindication that the colonial mindset and slavish mentality are still alive among some Indians. |
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Still, one can't help but wonder if the doom and gloom warnings have their roots in a mentality accustomed to government pork. |
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Because he had been head teacher for so long he had obtained the mentality the school was his and he could run it how he liked. |
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According to the media, people nationwide have developed an offbeat mentality characterized by inveterate hostility to the rich. |
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His borderless homesteads reveal the close-knit neighbors as a hop, skip, and a jump away from mob mentality. |
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Until last week it could be argued this was only a Neanderthal mentality among a very small percentage of players. |
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The play simply confirms the view of the nation as having the mentality of snitchy small-minded individuals concerned about the liquor laws. |
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It's really an orphan drug which has benefited from the let's-give-it-a-shot mentality more than anyone thought possible. |
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The Britons, in contrast, appeared stoic, taking the mentality of que sera sera. |
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Only those who bear direct responsibility, the U.S. Navy's senior civilian and uniformed flag officers, can ever hope to change this mentality. |
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I love getting hate mail, because it makes me see exactly the mentality of the idiots I am dealing with. |
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He views his training as a fulltime job, and I respect that nine-to-five mentality. |
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In the real world, the people of Liverpool have no more of a victim mentality than the people of Norwich. |
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But if you free yourself of these expectations and regress back to a seventh grade mentality, you will have a great time. |
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He is an example of the indulged generation who have an entitlement mentality and who never learnt any history at school. |
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Slowly we get used to the careless mentality I have known for so long, a casual, easy-going laziness. |
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For him the problem in Bulgaria is the widespread mentality that says it's okay to steal as long as you're not caught. |
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However, when it comes to self-destruction any car combined with a hard-core muscle car mentality will eventually lead to a dead end. |
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Frustrated by her friend's dim-wittedness and by the community's obdurate Presbyterian mentality, she rushes to help. |
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Beyond this general observation, Tocqueville notes important changes in the mentality of the middle classes and the nobility. |
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Lowering taxes should be popular but in our perverted hair-shirt mentality we are meant to believe that low taxes are bad, high taxes good. |
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Behind this mentality lies the progressive lobby's detestation of nationhood and Orwellian aspiration to world government. |
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It's a backhanded reassurance, one that allows for cracks of doubt in the organization's trust-us mentality. |
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The selectors have hand-picked those who have the right mentality, such as Damien Martyn and Simon Katich, ahead of the natural blasters. |
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Although this might be unpopular in the short term, at least they will regain some respect once the current mob mentality dies down. |
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Reisz's camera captures the drama of this specific event, but the film also presages a new mentality and a new freedom that won't be restrained. |
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Spies from Rome And Carthage both trying to get the upper hand, clash between Punic trade mentality and Roman militancy. |
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Unlike most French teams, they were mentally tough away from home and he has grafted that mentality on to the national side. |
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These words and actions were expressions of a deep unionist siege mentality and fear of being overrun. |
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It is opposed by an anti-life mentality as is seen in contraception, abortion, infanticide and euthanasia. |
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Piper's work gets inside the mentality of today's risk culture, and captures the crazy contortions that sensible people are ending up in. |
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There was something compulsive, engaging, about Krakow's siege mentality, and spring, with all its brash coquetry, seemed oddly antipathetic. |
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This singular mentality reduces transformation efforts into rear-guard actions to defend rice bowls. |
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It's leasees and sharemilkers, not those with a lifestyler mentality, that are sweating about the increases. |
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The riggers constructed their tree houses with a medieval-castle mentality. |
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In this context, the attitude engendered by a contractual mentality is one of minimal compliance rather than maximal cooperation. |
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Minor missions in the game deal with incursions on their territory by rival gangs as well as exploring the twisted mentality of protection money. |
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For over thirty years we've inculcated a backward mentality in this country. |
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Maybe it's their street mentality or their ghetto fabulous attitude or their inner city chic or their hip-hop like posse. |
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Since I am an extremely avid roleplayer, I decided to create a character whose mentality and persona I could easily grasp. |
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I'd hate to regard myself as a Little Englander, but occasionally I share that same mentality. |
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The Beatles broke the primness of post war mentality still worn like a cloak by society less than twenty years after the end of World War Two. |
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This view is so fundamentally flawed yet so implicit in the Australian mentality that it seems almost impossible to efface or even moderate. |
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I think columnists are doing a great disservice to the Mepham community and their readers at large by making this a locker-room mentality issue. |
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Just as we do with other humans, introspective experience allows ascription of similar mentality to other species. |
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All the men my age are bitter balding drunks or pretty boys with the pretty boy mentality. |
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In regard to its meanings, it indicates lowness, coarseness, or commonplace mentality. |
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However, here in North Yorkshire do we apply the Luddite mentality and return to the pitchfork and scythe? |
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Because he is a Darwinian, he is committed to the inferring of mentality, not opposed to its practice. |
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It also reminds us that the cold war mentality has not gone the way of the cold war. |
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In Hard Times he seems not to be directing his attack against machinery but against what Carlyle would have seen as a machine-like mentality. |
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The King Canute mentality, which I believe is damagingly ingrained in City Hall, can no longer hold back the tide of change. |
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The tallymen fascinated me with their eagle eyes and counting system and the siege mentality that prevailed was totally captivating. |
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This had created an authoritarian mentality characterized by unquestioning obedience to the emperor and his power-hungry generals. |
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So, he finally found someone fuzzyheaded enough to let him fiddle with her mentality. |
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The frontier mentality and adversarial roles are being replaced with new models of sustainability. |
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Yet it's not the malignity of some papers, but the mentality of their readers, that is the problem. |
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There is also the thing, which I think explains a lot of this, is a Cold War mentality. |
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Winner takes it all mentality has successfully spread its tentacles deep into our societal fabric and has infiltrated our institutions. |
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The frontier mentality of moving on to fresh ground remains deeply embedded in the American psyche. |
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It was this matey mentality that he, obsessed with his specialness, found maddening. |
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They're a picture of teenage mateyness, and it's this apparently benign gang mentality that distinguishes them from the rest of their genre. |
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Compared to the other semi-finalists here, the Italians were criticised for representing a throwback to a bygone, defensive mentality. |
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Hard country tends to bring out a frontier mentality in its settlers, and there's not much evidence of concern for the environment in Arizona. |
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But it may take two or three generations to get rid of this corrupt mentality and immorality of the present generation. |
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Six years ago the bank was being admonished for its narrow focus, its fortress mentality, and its lack of responsiveness. |
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The result of this mentality was that all concern with Nature was dominated by theory. |
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You are just looking at these old cases where judges in the grip of colonial mentality applied English law. |
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Several of us do many a ritual out of sheer herd mentality rather than with real interest or understanding. |
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Orchestras must break the concert hall mentality and become their own media players. |
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Lee Gilmour reckons the Bulls' play-anywhere mentality is one of their main strengths. |
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You have got to be someone with a different kind of mentality to make that work for you. |
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He has the scorers' mentality and is at the right time to establish himself as a top class player. |
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It's the same old imperialist mentality, the same denial of other people's rights. |
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Some would claim that this ivory-tower mentality was reflected in his music. |
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I came to England and ended up in a council flat, so I grew up with a working class mentality. |
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But already we pay a price, levied not in blood but in freedom, as a fortress mentality seeps into the national culture. |
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However, I like to believe that we do manage to suppress the outsider's mentality. |
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Football must avoid the kind of closed shop mentality that permeates other sports. |
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I suppose we've just got that winning mentality, and that can become a habit. |
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You get them together and that herd mentality takes over and bad things seem to come of it. |
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For a new life to begin mentality must join with this special matter and thus the round of birth and death continues. |
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A paranoid fortress mentality has unfortunately gripped the government policy makers in the most underpopulated country on earth. |
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Milly, who had red hair which was always worn in a ponytail, and brown eyes, still had a child-like mentality. |
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Human beings are very much alike, and every culture is rooted in a universal human mentality. |
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Logic and illusion become confused and you find it hard to express your highly developed and sensitive mentality. |
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These days we have moved on from a timocracy, but you'll still find plenty examples of the John Jay mentality here. |
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The E went from illustrating backwater strip mall mentality to a symbol of the New York elite, the beautiful people. |
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Expect to see more of a big-play mentality from the offense, which has been working together for months, and more formational shifts and motion. |
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Others ascribe continued support to widespread ignorance of the addictive mentality. |
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He has adopted a Rambo mentality and carries knives, guns and grenades on his person which he will not hesitate to use. |
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It was a 19th Century mentality that saved the whales, and found something better than whale oil to use as fuel. |
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Athletics is several years behind swimming in the development of a coherent structure and a winning mentality. |
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The conversation had a Kafkaesque quality to it, which is to say, it smacked of police-state mentality and measures. |
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She has a mentality that even if we don't have money at least we have maize to make tortillas to eat. |
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It immediately removes the sense of us and them, the bunker-like mentality which so often exists. |
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He was cocky and had pedigree but there was an underlying suspicion within the county that he might lack the mentality to match his ability. |
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Scotland's major task in the coming decades will be to outgrow the stultifying mentality of negativism and inferiority that has dogged the nation since the second world war. |
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As is their wont, Melrose will no doubt withdraw into themselves and adopt a siege mentality, blaming referees and everybody else for problems which are of their own making. |
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So does his comment about treason, which plugs into the mentality of those accusing the President of sedition and disloyalty. |
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I never did get a big cast-iron cooking range for this house but I have my larder stocked with good food and that's a large part of my comfort blanket mentality taken care of. |
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It is the mentality of members of the current government to think they are a law unto themselves and that they have the right to, without redress, build this and take that! |
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It takes a strange mentality to equate that with a seriously ill human being. |
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Whatever happened to the applaudable moral values you upheld in the classic scathing satirical attack on corporate mentality and economic imperialism? |
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His hand was strapped up and he played on, such is the mentality in rugby league, and it was only afterwards that an X-ray revealed he had broken the bone. |
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But to the south, thanks to U.S. pressure, the war mentality is in full tilt. |
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In the world of DVD releases, there is nothing worse than an action movie yanked out of its original aspect ratio and open matted to fit the full screen mentality. |
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In siege mentality I sought haven in the luxury of a massage. |
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Their defensive mentality is locked in the past and based on old glories. |
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This mentality is already revealed in numerous passages of the Talmud. |
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In the long run, you can't sanely compete with the open-source mentality. |
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People who accuse teams of tanking it in order to get a higher draft pick don't understand the mentality that is prevalent in the National Football League. |
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This means that the lazy, insolent functionnaire mentality prevails rather than a hard-working energetic one. |
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The just-in-time mentality has spread from manufacturing and retailing into other businesses, and into our personal lives. |
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Thank you for deepening our self-knowledge of our tombstone mentality. |
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The wife will have spent years feeling excluded from that club mentality. |
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This criterion is attractive even insofar as human mentality is concerned. |
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Diderot came to resent the burden which had taken up too much of his life, the more so as mentality had not evolved for the better as much as he had hoped. |
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While I agree with the sentiments about having a winning mentality, it seems, however, that it is the same sports that will benefit at the expense of others. |
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Haslett, a noted tough guy, knows how to mold a swarming, aggressive unit, and he could be the perfect fit for the mentality St. Louis wants to adopt. |
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Blanchard attributes the incarceration rate to a law-and-order mentality that criminalizing something prevents it from happening. |
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Crystal visits the Catskills, symbolically, in the show, but his humor is far from the whiny Allen mentality. |
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This points to a siege mentality as the Aberdeen chief executive is trying to suggest that his club are bound together by adversity and will see off detractors. |
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When a community is in the grips of a siege mentality, that sort of lockstep friendship may seem appealing. |
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I used to nag her but she refused to live under a siege mentality. |
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He has the mentality of a mafioso and not someone who has the mind of an ideological fighter. |
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To be sure, there are remnants of an Old West mentality of a rugged, tough-minded, if not slow to change attitude. |
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We both went into it with the mentality of being as funny as possible, so we really felt like teammates. |
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Dwelling on the reality of service doesn't really fit in with the mentality of success or mind-set of anyone in the armed forces. |
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Western suburbs residents have argued the closure typifies the silvertail mentality of North Adelaide and has prevented them from easily accessing the suburb for decades. |
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Anyone who has ever spent any time in a political chatroom will recognize both the mentality and the writing style, which are the modus operandi of the booboisie. |
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There are more pitfalls to the bootstrap mentality than just arrogance. |
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In one example, a little girl takes on the mentality of a bad dog and pees on a carpet. |
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A closer since 1998, Wickman has a bulldog mentality on the mound. |
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He doesn't have an athletic body but has a bulldog mentality. |
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The culture of the new upper class carries with it an unmistakable whiff of a 'we're better than the rabble' mentality. |
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New Zealand is a country born out of entrepreneurs and people with a number eight fencing wire mentality of doing things, and we want to encourage that. |
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Success as a model led Chambers to Hollywood, but Marilyn soon became disgusted with the casting couch mentality young starlets are often subject too. |
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The younger soldiers who grew up in relatively peaceful times interpret the mentality of the careerists as one of making up for lost opportunities. |
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The corruption and get-rich-quick mentality on Wall Street found its direct reflection within the privileged strata that make up the union bureaucracy. |
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Hakman's very street-smart, instinctual, with a total survivor mentality. |
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The company's philosophy, says director of business development Ron Schlenker, is to take the strategic sourcing mentality and orient it toward product development. |
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I documented an outgrowth of the mentality thus displayed earlier. |
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You can tell that someone thought this off-putting tale of modern mob mentality and teen occult fascination would make a very menacing, demographically secure chiller. |
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A connoisseur of thrift stores and swap meets, she understands the collector mentality, the longing to affiliate and define oneself through things. |
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The exploitation claim is yet another example of a mentality that finds exploitation everywhere even as it infantilizes the folks it purports to speak for. |
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According to a local postmistress, businesses have been forced out of the area and a siege mentality, where shop owners live with the daily threat of violence, prevails. |
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In this country, people have the follow-the-leader mentality. |
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It is not because my husband and I are less willing to give time to good causes, but because our attempts to do so have been blocked by a fortress mentality. |
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She has even passed on the entitlement mentality to her son. |
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Causing indiscriminate, unintentional pain is the mark of a bully or a dolt, while accepting pain as simply one's lot in life is a victim mentality. |
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The result was a work the chief value of which is as a document which offers an insight into the mentality of the lower middle class Surinamer. |
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The horse-race mentality will demand at least a few more twists and turns. |
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Mohammad Abdul-Sattar al-Sayyed said that the takfiri mentality aims at igniting sedition among the people of the nation. |
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For Westwood I think the switch to a matchplay mentality could help him to hole more of the key putts. |
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But this is the sort of mentality that comes to the fore in a bubble. |
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If we're going to hide effectively, we've got to get rid of this front-organization mentality. |
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That's why we've been so successful on defense, because of that ball-hawking mentality. |
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The radical shift in mentality is even more necessary when analysts see Education simply as a drainer of resources. |
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After firing that off, he clumsily asked what a plantation mentality is. |
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By means of stereotypical mentality, this very idea of alternativeness has also been extended to the pipelines. |
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With this mentality, the Dutch are very acceptive of foreign radio and television broadcasts from across their borders. |
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They are distinguished mainly by their mentality, and would differentiate themselves from the proletariat or working class. |
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Pirates did not take prisoners, and would kill all who resisted capture with their Jolly Rodger signifying surrender or die mentality. |
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Those that do appear, he argues, are misinterpretations made by translators imposing a modern mentality on the characters. |
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At first sight, Flemish culture is defined by the Dutch language and its gourmandic mentality, as compared to the more Calvinistic Dutch culture. |
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Let's hope their success is down to a protest vote against politics in general and not to a new Alf Garnett mentality. |
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In connection to this proves, legal expert Mersim Polozani said that this approach proves the ethnocentrist mentality in the country. |
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The mentality I need in the changing room is the level of horribleness you see in players at higher levels of the game. |
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They opposed the Dutch petit bourgeois mentality by creating humorous works with a serious undertone. |
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A mentality of fatefulness verging on helplessness seems to set in, which only results in an ever-greater commitment of American resources. |
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Using long lines, drift nets, and trawlers has about the same mentality as setting a grass fire to drive a herd of buffalo over a cliff. |
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The popular rural mentality was to restore the security, stability, and functionality of the old commons system. |
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What does this signify for the materiality and mentality of our everyday life in the hypermodern city? |
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He's an eco-activist maverick, with a Greenpeace mentality when it comes to protecting his little feathered friends. |
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The mentality of passing the buck to others is the habit of those who have accepted their defeat in the face of dangers. |
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I sincerely hope all these people feel the fools they have been and have learned a lesson about mob mentality and panic buying. |
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The hustler mentality is prevalent among the low and middle-class Kenyan urbanites who often desire socioeconomic mobility. |
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Before he can succeed, he will have to shed the mentality that he can get by without hard work. |
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Fortunately, the limited war contingence operations required of the AF for so long afforded us this mentality. |
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Next the just-in-time mentality was married to long supply chains. |
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This suggests that the segment of consumers adopting a flexitarian mentality will increase in the years ahead and become a significant concern for meat manufacturers. |
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There was also a mentality in all air forces that, if they could carry out effective operations by day, night missions and their disadvantages could be avoided. |
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State officials and ski industry experts say the conservative antichange mentality at Alta was partly forged by the same geography that produces avalanches. |
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This perspective on their imperial past only recently shifted with prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende's contentious call for the return of the VOC mentality. |
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MacLe an knows the mentality of players, who come with degrees in cynicism and jealously guard their relationship with their club physios and doctors. |
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In addition, the untranslated memoirs of Jozef Juras and Alexander Barica tell astonishing tales of the paranoid and fanatical mentality of their imprisoners. |
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The problem for the Scot Nats is that they think they have a monopoly on patriotism and those Scots who don't subscribe to their Scots Wha Hae mentality are gormless gowks. |
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Football is a universe dominated by a short-term mentality and so the in-house promotion of a badgeless boss based on future potential didn't sit well with many. |
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You have probably met some Turks who understand both the mentality of the East and West and try to be peacemakers like Babis when the two cultures clash. |
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Because if you take survival of the fittest as the driving force of evolution, this leaves the field wide open for eugenics, racism, and a dog-eat-dog mentality. |
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For some, the corporation sole policy became a corporation sole mentality. |
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Nothing captured the alt-right mentality better than cuckservative, with its taunt that moderation is unmanly and certain conservative males are cuckolds. |
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However, this mentality would be severely questioned with the advent of the Agadir crisis, when the Admiralty's war plans were heavily criticized. |
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It's time for the nonprofits to shift their mentality from thinking of themselves as groups who are always asking for things, and realize how much they offer the community. |
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Tashkent's Mayor has imposed a curfew on Internet cafes in Tashkent, which pervert the nation's teens, encouraging them to view material contradicting national mentality. |
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In its eagerness to attract football fans in the teeth of a global recession, South Africa has been afflicted by a kind of Potemkin village mentality. |
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By using that mentality, citizens of a developing country appreciate more since they are content with the basic necessities of health care, education and child protection. |
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A dog cannot help but be cynomorphic in his mentality and attitude. |
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One of the phenomena, reflecting contradictory tendencies, is the phenomenon of real as well as imitational change interaction, typical of culture and mentality. |
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The underlying tone behind the approach of governments is largely hortative and punitive, within a thinly veiled deficit and victim-blaming mentality. |
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When that mentality prevails, constitutional democracy, limited government, and the spontaneous market order will give way to crude majoritarianism and market socialism. |
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