It's a lot easier to demoralize people than to motivate them.
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You've experienced a setback, but you didn't let it demoralize you.
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It is a mechanism to demean, degrade and demoralize a prisoner.
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I think to demoralize our national commitment would be a mistake.
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Some woman keeps trying to demoralize her but Etheridge. Won't. Relent.
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But he provides enough flashes to tantalize teammates and demoralize opponents.
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"It's never great to demoralize your own national security staff," Exum says.
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And the best way to win is to demoralize your opponent's supporters.
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It's another tactic used to demoralize and make women seem less than.
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Meanwhile, solid, stubborn defense can demoralize the attacker, make him lose confidence.
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But Republicans worry any failure to confirm him will demoralize their base.
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It lends legitimacy to broader efforts to demean and demoralize transgender Americans.
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Such denunciations demoralize faithful Catholics without giving the disaffected any reason to return.
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However, it would certainly demoralize U.S. allies and trigger domestic instability in Ukraine.
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Their goal is to suppress votes for competing parties and demoralize left-wing activists.
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This oft-told story has the power to reassure as well as to demoralize.
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The OSS recruited Dietrich to record propaganda songs in German to demoralize the enemy.
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McCain refused because it would dishonor his father and demoralize the other American POWs.
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They demoralize the base of the GOP and they weaken unity before the midterm election.
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Such releases speed up processing, but demoralize agents and may encourage more migration, McAleenan argued.
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" As Mitchell concludes, "His decision not to fight the cuts will likely further demoralize the department.
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I believe that the district forced me out of my classroom to demoralize and silence me.
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The trouble is that when we do find out the details, they demoralize us still more.
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And signalling that there is no boundary one is unprepared to transgress may demoralize one's adversary.
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They have publicly stated that Russia aims to influence, demoralize and confuse us through disinformation operations.
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It would further demoralize the hard-pressed Atlanticists in East European countries such as Ukraine and Georgia.
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Despite his desperation, McCain realized the gesture was purely a ploy meant to demoralize his fellow prisoners.
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We need more than the Whac-a-Moleapproach to the jihad; fundamentally, we must demoralize the movement.
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The lack of prosecution is certain to demoralize some conservatives, who long have called for Comey's head.
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I didn't want to demoralize people, and I particularly wanted to have great relationships with these people.
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The President's mistreatment of these dedicated troops will serve only to weaken and demoralize our armed forces.
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"They will still try to demoralize us," she said of the protesters, "and continue cyberattacks and harassment."
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We cannot demoralize and demean a prisoner and expect them to return to their communities a better person.
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Any harsh steps will demoralize them, derail the system ... It's our bounden duty to keep their morale high.
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Any vote on a bill deemed "amnesty" by the party's right flank could demoralize conservative voters in November.
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In addition to creating vulnerabilities, shutdowns demoralize the talented corps of cyber professionals who work for federal agencies.
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He called for a truce within the government as well, saying public disagreements "demoralize our people and create confusion".
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These policies were designed to destabilize and demoralize black communities, and they have been effective in doing just that.
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"They got one right back and that could hurt you, that can demoralize you," Shattenkirk said about Gagner's goal.
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He sets broad strategic goals, designed to divide, distract and demoralize the West enough that Russia gets a free hand.
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Their cumulative effect is the same — they demoralize linguistic minorities and chip away at the will to preserve linguistic heritage.
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Most of the C.C.P. leadership opposed the Comintern policy; they thought collaboration with the "bourgeois" K.M.T. would demoralize their members.
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Such a vicious cycle, retrenchment ensuring inaction, could only further demoralize grass-roots Republicans, deteriorating the party's standing even more.
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Generating false content to demoralize, confuse and perturb public attitudes costs Russia far less than traditional, and deadly, forms of aggression.
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Failing to press the issue, though, could demoralize Democrats who feel that the party hasn't done enough to resist Republican extremism.
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It could also sharply demoralize Islamic State fighters, raising questions about whether the group could still credibly call itself a caliphate.
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I want no part of a one-sided argument or feud where one woman lives to demoralize and degrade another woman.
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Their goal, Mr. McKendrick said, is both to "demoralize racists" and "embarrass the Oxford Union" for extending such an irresponsible invitation.
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A vote this summer to help undocumented immigrants could demoralize President Trump's most ardent supporters and depress Republican turnout in November.
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A vote on legislation deemed "amnesty" by the party's right flank could demoralize conservative voters and depress Republican turnout in November.
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Afraid I would demoralize my friend if I unleashed my full word-seeking powers, I resolved to lose the first game.
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Republican leaders want Kavanaugh confirmed at almost any costs, fearful that pulling his nomination would demoralize their voters ahead of the midterms.
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Even as supporters like Andrew Sullivan were in meltdown mode, Obama didn't let his poor showing in the fist debate demoralize him.
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I try to see the work through the eyes of the people who did it because I don't want to demoralize them.
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"Washington tried its best to demoralize the Venezuelan Army, and now used fakes as a part of information war," she told CNN.
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That, it argues, could quickly demoralize the entire force, especially since many officers joined the force for job security and good pay.
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Dr. Monzer Khalil, Idlib Province's health director, said such extreme tactics aimed to demonstrate the government's impunity and to demoralize its foes.
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Khan said the killing was meant to demoralize police officers and the government would look into the matter of security for their families.
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The popular French actor Jamel Debbouze, slightly more subtle, suggested that such under-representation of players from disenfranchised "banlieues" would demoralize their youth.
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I don't want to let this game break us down and demoralize us because we have a lot of respect for that team.
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The quick strike beat Fleury on his stick side and seemed to demoralize some Vegas players who lowered their heads on the bench.
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" Russian officials have denied that narrative and accused the US of disseminating false information to "demoralize the Venezuelan army" and conduct an "information war.
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Alicia Machado on Friday criticized Donald Trump's overnight Twitter rant about her, saying the presidential contender's campaign has tried to "discredit and demoralize" her.
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This all makes sense, because they're disturbing as hell, like something the totalitarian Combine aliens would use to demoralize humankind in Half-Life 2.
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He can hit a game-winner, halt an opposing run, or demoralize the defense with a string of backbreakers that waft with unparalleled conviction.
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According to press reports, he is worried that allowing a vote on an immigration bill and saving the Dreamers could demoralize the Republican base.
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The North Vietnamese Army had previously offered McCain his freedom, but he refused, thinking that it would bring shame and demoralize his fellow POWs.
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It would have been easy to pencil in the club's hottest hitters — Gleyber Torres and Gary Sanchez — and further demoralize the American League East.
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If Trump's appeal were based on mass concern about compliance with immigration law, the Melania revelation would demoralize his supporters and crush his campaign.
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"Although such attacks are meant to divide and demoralize, I think targeting Medina has galvanized and united the Muslim populations like no other," she said.
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When companies unnecessarily restrict people's Internet activity, it does more than demoralize those that can't check Facebook; it limits people's ability to do their jobs.
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Or would scuttling the nomination only demoralize their voters, who are growing weary of a scandal-prone president fond of shooting himself in the foot?
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Propaganda played a crucial role during World War II, with the O.S.S. leading efforts to demoralize the enemy and encourage resistance in Axis-controlled countries.
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Some veteran government employees fear the revelations from the impeachment inquiry will further demoralize the foreign service and others who work for the State Department.
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Machado on Friday shared an Instagram post that showed her draped in an American flag, saying Trump had again tried to discredit and demoralize a woman.
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Kremlin military and intelligence thinkers have long discussed freedom of information "in weaponized terms, as a tool to confuse, blackmail, demoralize, subvert, and paralyze," Pomerantsev writes.
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"Sanctions only serve to weaken peace efforts and demoralize ambitions of the elected government," reads a press release that R&R Partners prepared for South Sudan.
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I want them to know the truth about this war and to do a little bit to demoralize them so that they will refuse to fight.
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The opposition says a relentless air campaign was waged in which the army used napalm, chlorine and incendiary bombs to demoralize rebels by targeting civilian areas.
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"Donald Trump is pursuing policies that undermine the Western alliance, empower Russia and China, and demoralize freedom-seeking people around the world," is how Goldberg explains it.
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The committee has assessed, since at least June, that Russia is engaged in an ongoing psychological and cyberoperations campaign to influence, confuse and demoralize its intended audience.
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They may show up as being easily hurt by constructive feedback, obsessing about work off-hours, or letting the emotional contagion of a toxic workplace demoralize you.
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They will have to excite their loyal base, convince the few remaining swing voters to support them, and sufficiently demoralize Republican voters that enough of them stay home.
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Though I'm not 100% sure that if I was less "mobile" I would want to become bffs with someone who wants to "demoralize diversity" and "de-emphasize empathy".
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Many GOP lawmakers have warned that a similar debacle on tax reform could so demoralize grassroots conservatives that they may not be motivated to vote in the midterms.
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Leaders such as Trump use such unsettling language to demoralize and frighten the populace and incite greater political and social polarization that, in the end, benefits only them.
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The internet is a critical tool for spreading false information – or disinformation in the parlance of information warfare – to either manipulate or demoralize a nation and its people.
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To those who seek to demoralize us, please know that the Constitution and the Bill of Rights of the United States of America will be our guiding light.
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Small teams tapped communication lines, sabotaged convoys, snatched captives and peppered enemy territory with fake documents, counterfeit money and exploding ammunition intended to confuse, demoralize and kill communist troops.
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The New York Times Magazine had just done an article on Russian troll farms that flooded the internet with disinformation to undermine political opponents at home and demoralize enemies abroad.
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To run on a depoliticized program of centrist anti-Trumpism would demoralize and demobilize Democratic voters, a lethal move for the left since Trump has been successful at mobilizing hardcore Republicans.
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His victory will keep the Georgia governor's mansion in GOP hands for a fifth consecutive term and demoralize Democrats who hoped to put the state on the presidential map in 2020.
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There are concerns that a losing vote — especially one close to the general election — could demoralize Democrats, but it's also possible that a defeat of this magnitude could fire people up.
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"As all of you well know, in 1998, terrorists thought they could demoralize and destroy the Kenyan and American people by attacking the U.S. Embassy here in Nairobi," Mr. Tillerson said.
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"As all of you well know, in 1998 terrorists thought they could demoralize and destroy the Kenyan and American people by attacking the U.S. Embassy here in Nairobi," Mr. Tillerson said.
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"I don't want to letthis game break us down and demoralize us because we have a lot of respect for(Oregon)," Utah coach Larry Krystkowiak said in his post-game news conference.
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But she had hoped that a win in Michigan would demoralize Mr. Sanders heading into the coming Rust Belt primaries and relegate him to a protest candidate rather than a real threat.
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Democrats have managed to accede to Republican demands, demoralize their energized base, give a disengaged president a win, and look like they held a meaningless three day government shutdown — all at once.
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That would constitute a huge strategic victory for the axis of autocrats, demoralize pro-democracy forces in Syria and elsewhere and embolden Iran to intrigue against Iraq, Israel and moderate Arab countries.
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The argument is that a Kavanaugh defeat would badly demoralize the Republican base in advance of the 2018 midterms -- and that depression coupled with Democrats' huge enthusiasm to vote would flip control.
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Republicans genuinely believe that pulling Kavanaugh's nomination could be an electoral disaster for them, because it would demoralize the hyperpartisan and engaged Republican voters who care a lot about the Supreme Court.
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Waiting until he's already inaugurated to organize the opposition will just further demoralize grassroots Democrats—and make it impossible to mount an effective counter to his ambitious plans for the first 100 days.
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If the Rangers had held on for just 18 more seconds during regulation in Game 2, it might have been enough to demoralize the Canadiens and set this series on an irreversible course.
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"I think they (Taliban leaders) are worried that unless there is withdrawal schedule announced by US troops, if they meet with the Afghan government (it) would demoralize their commanders and field soldiers," Daudzi said.
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There's a majority view that the attack was a practice exercise for blitzkrieg, the "lightning war" of terror from the air much used by the Luftwaffe to demoralize civilian populations in World War Two.
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Omar Abu Layla, a Syrian who heads an activist news network called Deir Ezzour 24, said he expected Mr. al-Baghdadi's death would demoralize some followers, while enraging others who would seek to avenge him.
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There is a depressing irony in the fact it was that Republican candidate himself who reminded everyone that there are plenty of men in power who use that power to demean, denigrate, and demoralize women.
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"This is all a big conspiracy to demoralize the Hindus," said Bhagmal Khajuria, an elder from a nearby village, who insisted that the eight men arrested in connection with the girl's death had been framed.
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In his 1988 interview, Mr. Dhlakama said the guerrillas' hit-and-run strikes against towns held by the Mozambican Army were designed "to demoralize and lower the profile of the enemy" rather than hold territory.
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The other is that if the evidence falls short, Democrats have no escape route other than to wage a losing impeachment battle or back down, either of which will embolden Trump and demoralize Democratic voters.
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Since large street protests in late 2014 blocked major roads for 79 days, critics say authorities have sought to suppress and demoralize a younger generation of activists - some of whom were jailed or face lawsuits.
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DAKAR (Reuters) - A U.S.-based journalists' rights group urged Burkina Faso's government on Wednesday to nix a bill that would impose stiff prison sentences on media that "demoralize" security services battling a strengthening jihadist insurgency.
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Will he underperform in New Hampshire, and further demoralize his elite supporters—or will he dispel once and for all with the gospel that to be competitive in national elections, the Republican Party needs to change?
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The army of the dead faces off against the allied living forces in the darkness, made darker by a bespoke storm brought in by, shall we say, a Mr. N.K., to further demoralize the good guys.
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" Similarly, Benjamin Weingarten, a contributor with the conservative publication the Federalist, tweeted: "Contrary to its stated goals, it appears the purpose of the 1619 Project is to delegitimize America, and further divide and demoralize its citizenry.
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"Silence on Ukraine, sycophant to Trump, continues to demoralize the State Department, lack of support for his ambassadors," wrote Isabelle Stillger, launching off in a very long list of complaints about Pompeo's failure to … pretty much everything.
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BUT THEY DID NOT DENIGRATE PEOPLE, THEY DIDN'T DEMORALIZE PEOPLE, THEY DIDN'T SCAPEGOAT PEOPLE, THEY DIDN'T STORM AT PEOPLE, THEY WORKED WITH PEOPLE AND THEY COMPROMISED AND THEY COLLABORATED TO DO THE BEST THING FOR THE PEOPLE.
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Even though "hashtag activism" has been used to demoralize a new generation of activists, social media tools like hashtags have allowed people to organize and amplify their messages beyond their local physical community and network faster than ever.
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"They are trying to create chaos, demoralize our people, and destabilize our country ... We will retain our cool-headedness as a nation, standing more closely together, and we will never give ground to such dirty games," he said.
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It is not a perfect copy — we never contemplated seizing the oil for our own purposes and we were far more concerned about how anti-Muslim rhetoric might demoralize the moderate Muslim voices we were seeking to empower.
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Alternatively, like the Northwest Palace and the Nabu Temple at Nimrud, the attack could have served a dual purpose: intentional destruction for the composition of future propaganda and retributory violence to demoralize local populations and goad invading military forces.
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But while we can't erase the pain or impact of 45 years of policies designed to demoralize black Americans, we can organize, mobilize and take action to end the war on people and begin reversing some of its dire consequences.
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If Gabbard's complaints about the DNC resonate, the risk is that the Democratic Party nomination process may be seen as tainted — and thus hand President Trump a talking point he can use to (again) try to demoralize would-be Democratic voters.
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"As the Islamic State loses ground around Mosul, there is a high risk of the group using chemical weapons to slow down and demoralize advancing enemy forces." said Columb Strack, a senior analyst and the head of the IHS Conflict Monitor.
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But if Republicans keep power in Congress and the long-anticipated "Year of the Woman" fails to materialize, it could demoralize Democrats and stoke suspicions, already simmering in some precincts, that a white man would stand the best chance of unseating Mr. Trump.
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Trump seems to understand this, and so he devoted part of his speech on the eve of the New Hampshire primary by taking a page out of the 2016 playbook to simultaneously demoralize Sanders supporters and sow seeds of division among Democrats.
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But Greenhouse's greatest anger is for the large companies — and their Wall Street owners — that have no human connection to the workplace and that are pushing the limits with new tactics to demoralize workers and strip them of their power and dignity.
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The law, which parliament adopted on June 21 but still needs presidential approval, calls for up to 10 years' jail and up to 2 million CFA franc ($3,457) fines for anyone who "participates in an initiative to demoralize the defense and security forces".
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"There is no consent in the least for violence in the public arena, but the motivation of (the attackers) is clear: They do not agree for their territory to be infected with leftist ideology that aims to demoralize children and weaken families," the story read.
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"They are trying to create chaos, demoralize our people, and destabilize our country with abominable attacks which target civilians ... We will retain our cool-headedness as a nation, standing more closely together, and we will never give ground to such dirty games," he said.
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Donnelly, a defense and security policy analyst, added that locally publicizing military offensives to clear civilians and demoralize the enemy was "pretty typical" when going into a heavily populated areas, noting that the US military did something similar when clearing Fallujah back in 2004.
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ALPHARETTA, Ga. — A gray mood has settled over conservative-leaning voters in some of the country's most reliably Republican congressional districts, as the party's stumbles in Washington demoralize them and leave lawmakers scrambling to energize would-be supporters in a series of off-year elections.
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So despite the rhetoric of the right that demonizes, criminalizes and attempts to demoralize and sometimes outright arch-villianize Latinos, every Latino person I met during this episode was very hopeful about their future, no matter how dire their circumstances in the present seemed to me.
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But discrediting the democratic process in general by suggesting the results are "rigged" against a candidate who is not favored by the Democratic establishment is, in addition to being a piece of Russian propaganda, a way to demoralize would-be voters in a manner that's helpful for Trump. Sen.
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The fresh-faced, impoverished Afghan recruits killed and maimed in the Taliban's sneak attack here on Friday, some of them just teenagers, are the latest targets of the insurgent group's campaign to subvert and demoralize the armed forces, already struggling with corruption, desertion and mistrust between soldiers and officers.
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If the many losses, continual injuries, head-scratching mistakes and personnel changes were not enough to completely demoralize the Mets this season, try this latest development: Noah Syndergaard, two starts into his return from a finger injury, is headed back to the disabled list with hand, foot and mouth disease.
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Shot down over Hanoi during a Vietnam War mission as a U.S. Navy aviator, McCain famously declined an early release from a North Vietnamese prison knowing that it would be used as a propaganda tool to demoralize those who had been imprisoned longer but who weren't the sons of a Navy admiral.
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The left, because it cares (or at least some of it cares) about sexual harassment as such, must navigate its own conflicting impulses and interests to determine what's fair to everyone — while under a hail of bad-faith fire from those who see it as just one more way to divide and demoralize them.
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"This is images of white people, images of white heroes, images of white warriors that are being torn down to attack and demoralize" the white race, to be replaced by a "mixed, muddy people" Spencer followed with a speech that argued the removal of the Lee statue was the first step toward white genocide.
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"If Republicans abandon the Second Amendment and demoralize millions of Americans who care deeply about Second Amendment rights, that could go a long way to electing a President Elizabeth Warren," Cruz said at a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor, referring to the liberal Democratic senator from Massachusetts who is running for president.
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Though Mr. Maduro is widely unpopular, he has used the judiciary and other divisions of government to tighten his hold on power, jail prominent critics and demoralize the opposition, which has suffered deep schisms following a dismal showing in regional elections last month in which the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela was able to buttress its dominance.
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"If Republicans abandon the Second Amendment and demoralize millions of Americans who care deeply about Second Amendment rights, that could go a long way to electing a President Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Defense bill talks set to start amid wall fight Biden allies: Warren is taking a bite out of his electability argument MORE," Sen.
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Kevin Durant's Three Ball Has Never Been This Scary The most important reminder from last year's NBA Finals was that even when everything appears to be going wrong (relatively speaking) for the Golden State Warriors, the type of shots Kevin Durant can string together at anytime, regardless of who else is on the floor, can completely demoralize an opponent and tilt the entire complexion of a game in his team's favor.
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They believe going after Trump too directly will stir his mighty base, rather than imagining that full and transparent investigations into his various fraudulent and corrupt activities may demoralize his staunchest supporters—just as Trump himself was demoralized at the prospect of Mueller's investigation—while also persuading those people who aren't already in the cult of MAGA that this administration, and the party that abets it, need to be soundly defeated.
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Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward CruzGOP signals unease with Barr's gun plan NRA says Trump administration memo a 'non-starter' Barr fails to persuade Cruz on expanded background checks MORE (R-Texas) on Thursday said if Republicans strike a deal with Democrats to require all firearms sales over the internet or at gun shows to go through background checks, they would demoralize their conservative base ahead of next year's presidential election.
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Va.) and Pat ToomeyPatrick (Pat) Joseph ToomeyNSA improperly collected US phone records in October, new documents show Overnight Defense: Pick for South Korean envoy splits with Trump on nuclear threat | McCain blasts move to suspend Korean military exercises | White House defends Trump salute of North Korean general WH backpedals on Trump's 'due process' remark on guns MORE (R-Pa.), it would demoralize conservative voters and help Democrats capture the White House in 85033.
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But the practicality and feasibility of casting him out has oddly taken center stage in a debate that should be focused on presidential malfeasance: advocates arguing that keeping impeachment on the table energizes a Democratic base eager for action, and could demoralize a Republican one forced to watch its leaders defended the swampiness of the Trump administration; detractors waving a Clinton-era bloody shirt, warning impeachment only gives the president a galvanizing issue for the 2020 election.
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Rather, Lagophthalmos is the cockamamie excuse Alabama's Department of Corrections (ADOC) and Attorney General's Office are rallying around to disclaim why Alabama's last execution may have burned a man, death row inmate Christopher Brooks, alive; this is a claim federal public defenders made and supported with affidavits from a medical expert and a federal investigator that should deeply disconcert, if not demoralize, anyone who believes medieval torture has no place in 21st century America; a claim that still has not been aired in a court of law.
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If you pretended you oversaw the most powerful military, diplomatic corps, and liberal political system in human history, and you wanted to discover the single action that would threaten a friendly people with atrocities, war crimes, and genocide; expose U.S. troops to attack by a foreign state's military; scatter Islamist terrorist prisoners to the winds and invigorate their movement; boost anti-democratic, murderous regimes in Damascus, Ankara, Moscow, and Tehran; shred longstanding liberal alliances; and demoralize citizens of your own nation—you could have barely topped what President Trump has just done.
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"If Republicans abandon the Second Amendment and demoralize millions of Americans who care deeply about Second Amendment rights, that could go a long way to electing a President Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Defense bill talks set to start amid wall fight Biden allies: Warren is taking a bite out of his electability argument MORE," Cruz said at a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor when asked about the prospect of Trump endorsing a modified version of Manchin-Toomey, which would require background checks for all firearms sales over the internet or at gun shows.
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But even depicting everyday black life, I learned, can be complicated — especially when it comes to black hair, which has been a virtual map of our history and experiences: from 15th-century West Africa, where as part of complex language systems hair was used to transmit information like social status and ethnic and clan affiliations; to the era of slavery, when along with our skin black hair became a primary target of a white society seeking to demoralize and dehumanize enslaved blacks; to the Afro, which became a symbol of rebellion and black power; to today's natural styles, which embrace new perceptions of beauty.
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