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defeatist sentence examples

  • It is far too easy to become defeatist, far too easy to claim that we cannot compete in the tests that lie ahead.
  • Those who advocated a ' revolutionary defeatist ' policy in the second world war assumed something similar would occur.
  • Defeatist attitude shown in the face of the nationwide report is not good.
  • In this article i shall argue that to think simply like this would be wrong and rather defeatist.
  • In scotland and northern ireland over the last two decades, unionism has become defeatist, defensive and apprehensive about the future.
  • Defeatist position adopted in 1938 by the founding congress of the trotskyist fourth international lacked political purchase.
  • And they are in too defeatist a frame of mind to think positively.
  • Defeatist strategic line was wrong.
  • We can do something about it, and i can't understand why all the left has become so defeatist.
  • Defeatist policy.
  • Yet the consultation paper takes a very complacent if not defeatist line on such issues.
  • Defeatist notion that the socialist ratchet was irreversible.
  • Defeatist statement.

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