She said there was not a sense of defeatism and that pupils were motivated and enthused.
Armies do not triumph with large numbers but are defeated if the spirit of defeatism prevails.
Before concluding, we reiterate the importance of high morale and caution against false rumours, defeatism, uncertainty, and discouragement.
The sense of defeatism was consigned, at least at the time, to history.
Yet, there is a difference between responsible criticism that aims for success and defeatism that refuses to acknowledge anything but failure.
The whole dung heap of defeatism and stagnation, from Galbraith to Samuelson, Solow and Thurow--it's all there, summed up in 176 pages!
Another factor is a sense of defeatism in Chernobyl-affected people, many of whom had to leave homes their families had lived in for generations.
But as the prospect of war drew closer, pessimism and defeatism were replaced with a grim determination to confront the manifest evil of Nazism.
But when Democrats in the Senate pressed for a timetable, or at least a commitment to withdrawal, they were buried under Republican accusations of "cut and run" defeatism.
Such defeatism usually has less success in the United States.
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Still, it seems unlikely that the majority of legislators would be willing to be associated with defeatism in Iraq, let alone to champion it, were they absolutely clear about the stakes.
At some point, such behavior breeds not just defeatism.
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