To the Editor: Re "Democrats, Demoralized Again," by Frank Bruni (column, June 21): I am disappointed by the outcome of the Georgia election but definitely not demoralized.
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Puerto Ricans — American citizens after all — are demoralized.
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Schwartz was demoralized by the experienceThat's actually putting it mildly.
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The next day, the demoralized agents returned to the mainland.
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"It's a complete recipe for a demoralized base," Wilson said.
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"People are terrified, and people are demoralized," the source said.
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The Democratic National Committee today is an understaffed, demoralized bureaucracy.
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Too many of us become demoralized when we face adversity.
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"It's no surprise employees felt unappreciated and demoralized," he said.
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He reported that CNN staffers are "demoralized" by the news.
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They remember being organized in 2008 and demoralized in 2010.
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Egyptians who still want change face protest fatigue and are demoralized.
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We're going to take this on,' they're going to get demoralized.
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Felix and his remaining blond coworkers are fed up and demoralized.
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"I could look in a guy's eyes and know he's demoralized."
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His inability to do that has left some staff members demoralized.
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"The lack of support has demoralized the players," García Pitarch said.
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I was just demoralized with the performance of former Deputy Peterson.
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Republicans win when people are demoralized and voter turnout is low.
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So a party sorely demoralized in November is demoralized yet again — and left to wonder if the intense anti-Trump passion visible in protests, marches, money and new volunteers isn't just some theatrical, symbolic, abstract thing.
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His third, completed by a muscular drive to the line, demoralized them.
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Roger Wicker of Mississippi blamed the discord on a demoralized Democratic Party.
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"Some people grow, some people become demoralized," said Valentiner, the NIU professor.
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He gutted and demoralized the department and delivered nothing for this country.
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I was so traumatized, and hearing that completely demoralized and revictimized me.
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" Liberal New York Times columnist Frank Bruni called Democrats "demoralized yet again.
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Progressive forces in Europe are demoralized, and the nationalists clearly have momentum.
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In recent months, his playful pessimism had deteriorated into something more demoralized.
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Harlow's behavior is leaving his partners and employees "completely demoralized," Lemonis says.
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While Democrats thought he went too far, demoralized Republicans were emboldened again.
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With no one to buy anything, he returns to his farm demoralized.
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I don't want to accuse anyone of anything, but I feel demoralized.
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You don't want to have the nation's law enforcement folks feel demoralized.
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Once you're done, you'll have gained an ally or demoralized an enemy.
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When I left Congress, I felt demoralized and burned to the ground.
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Don't tell me you can't get involved because you are so demoralized.
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Pino found a workforce of around 212,226 people, demoralized by Chrysler's bankruptcy.
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Newton demoralized opposing teams with his mobility and deflated them with his arm.
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CALDWELL: I believe to a large degree President -- former President Obama feels demoralized.
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To say we left that job demoralized and confused is also an understatement.
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A reduced and demoralized world The character dynamics aren't the only familiar elements.
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"You can't give up home runs," Buchholz said, adding that he wasn't demoralized.
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The decision demoralized gun control advocates already sidelined by their putative political allies.
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I think it's demoralized people and made them even more cynical about politics.
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"I saw a person who was totally demoralized," Crum says of her daughter.
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His legacy is an agency with a leadership void and a demoralized staff.
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If opposition to Trump is demobilized and demoralized, these initiatives will be vulnerable.
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It's hard to blame people for being demoralized these days, especially in America.
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Ultimately, if you leave people in hotels for 12 weeks they get demoralized.
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I ran, demoralized, as the service vehicles bringing up the rear passed me.
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Mr. Turner later wrote that the C.I.A. he inherited was demoralized and disorganized.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. All confessed they remained demoralized since the election.
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The arrests and the blockade have left Kashmiris feeling unsettled, demoralized and furious.
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Physicians and relatives must feel the need to rouse the demoralized foot soldier.
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Demoralized, I threw my phone across the room and sat staring at Bruce.
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Republicans win elections when people are demoralized and give up on the political process.
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These flooding techniques stabilized authoritarian regimes, because they demoralized and confused the regime's opponents.
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Every major city, for example, has a centrist mayor, yet Texas liberals are demoralized.
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"We've seen calla lilies contorted to death and demoralized," Miller writes in one caption.
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The rest are relying on demoralized, physically drained public defenders to save their lives.
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Consider, too, downplaying frequent fitness testing, which demoralized so many study respondents, he says.
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Our photographer spent four weeks documenting a population that feels unsettled, demoralized and furious.
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By the second week of September, though, Ms. King said she was growing demoralized.
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The scandal has also left women on both sides of the debatespitting mad — or demoralized.
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Marty O'Donnell It was early 2003 and Jason said that the "Phoenix" team was demoralized.
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Instead of coming together and marching in the streets, the opposition is divided and demoralized.
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However, he rejected any suggestion he might be demoralized by his rival's record-breaking form.
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Too often we micromanage our demoralized teachers, driving many of the best from the profession.
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"They feel undervalued, demoralized, and I'm using the word traumatized, they are traumatized," Rinaldi said.
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A demoralized public wanted to hear about something other than cascading bankruptcies and grinding unemployment.
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"Suffice it to say, elements in the military are demoralized at this turn of events."
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Baier asked Farrow on Wednesday night if he felt "demoralized" after NBC killed the story.
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Somebody will have to restore the party structures, rebuild Congress, revive a demoralized Civil Service.
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One of the dangers of this election is that Americans will become demoralized and disaffected.
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It wasn't clear that demoralized Democrats would even try to hold the line against authoritarianism.
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The guards are demoralized — too outnumbered, understaffed, and underpaid to create a genuinely safe environment.
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And it may well be too late already: Our legacy population is demoralized, beleaguered, and disorganized.
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It's the particular way the hospital has interpreted this mandate that has left them feeling demoralized.
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In Iraq, there is an Iraqi army, it was just demoralized and broken, riven with sectarianism.
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VA's reputation is damaged, staff is demoralized, momentum is stalled and the future is shockingly unclear.
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When it comes to global leadership, the State of our Union is degraded, debilitated, and demoralized.
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It's no wonder that many teachers feel demoralized by the futility of this wrong-headed approach.
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After two decades of underfunding and industrial-scale corruption, Ukraine's military was backward, divided, and demoralized.
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Schauffele and Koepka are too young to have been demoralized by Woods in his peak years.
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As the I.M.F.'s fifth managing director, Dr. Witteveen took over a demoralized and sidelined institution.
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The election in Virginia showed not just an energized Democratic base but a demoralized Republican base.
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I was demoralized by Turkish politics, which made both secularists and religious people feel like victims.
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Numerous creators with verified checkmarks spoke to The Verge about feeling demoralized after receiving the email.
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The wear and tear are most apparent with Brennan, who is demoralized by his downward trend.
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I was so exhausted and demoralized that I paid little attention to where I was going.
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Both criticized "irregularities" in the vote but also lamented many demoralized opposition supporters stayed at home.
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The witch is so demoralized by the attacks that she is considering shutting down the store completely.
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I left the screening that afternoon feeling frustrated and demoralized, as many others in attendance also did.
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Imagine how frustrated they will be, how demoralized, that they can no longer access what they need.
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This is a chance for students to learn about solutions, instead of being demoralized by partisan gridlock.
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Hopelessly demoralized, the soldier returns to his comrades on the front and volunteers for a hazardous mission.
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The notion that a certain sexual identity leads to abusive behavior has demoralized gay priests for decades.
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"We were depressed and demoralized," said Ms. Greene, an editor at Afar magazine in her late 30s.
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Both are not running for reelection this year, and both have been demoralized by the Trump era.
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The process, which includes mandatory waiting periods, mediation sessions, and nondisclosure agreements, demoralized her, according to the Times.
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"When people don't succeed, they feel demoralized and that triggers the desire to shut themselves away," added Kato.
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"They're so demoralized," former Region 2 EPA administrator Judith Enck said of her friends still at the agency.
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At breakfast, I asked Sanders how he avoids feeling demoralized when the Republicans control every branch of government.
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As doubts arise over the government's ability to fund pension and health insurance, Taiwan's youth feel increasingly demoralized.
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Some have worried that "Joker" glorifies revenge and could inspire similarly demoralized men to mimic the villain's actions.
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"They may have been demoralized, but they seemed in good spirits," Pompeo said Friday at a press conference.
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But that left a vacuum that provoked merciless coverage, increased lawmakers' suspicions, and even left some employees demoralized.
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The novel opens on a demoralized postwar Italy in 1919 and chronicles the fascists' improbable rise to power.
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Querida Q.: I hope that you are feeling, if not precisely better, then at least not so demoralized.
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President Donald Trump's first chief diplomat, Rex Tillerson, instituted deep cuts that left the department demoralized and downsized.
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The guards on the line in Laguna del Tigre were few, unarmed, demoralized, and facing a terrifying opponent.
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Over recent years, demoralized and confused scientists have watched helplessly as bee populations around the world have fallen.
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Officers were demoralized after the riots, he says, and fearful of being caught on cellphone cameras making bad arrests.
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Elected Republican officials are publicly defending Trump but privately are dumbfounded, disgusted and demoralized by this turn of events.
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Instead, Sanders and his senior aides found themselves working to reassure demoralized and shaken staffers and volunteers on Tuesday.
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And if we aim to lose weight ourselves, we feel proud when we succeed (and demoralized when we don't).
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Hundreds of caseworkers have quit, complaining that they were overworked, demoralized, poorly paid, and often placed in dangerous situations.
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He estimated fewer than 2,000 militants and their families were left there and they were "demoralized and worn down".
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This year, those surveys have found a gap between an energized Democratic base and a comparatively demoralized Republican electorate.
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Before the coup attempt, a string of terrorist attacks by Kurdish and Islamic State militants had demoralized the public.
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The Munich Pact, which appeased Nazi Germany by allowing Hitler to annex portions of Czechoslovakia, left many Loyalists demoralized.
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"I don't need this," said Mr. Bethune, who added that United employees were demoralized and he wanted to help.
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If Republicans bail out ObamaCare, it is likely that a justifiably demoralized Republican base that stays home in November.
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Many diplomats, already demoralized by the partial government shutdown, were angry, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation.
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Still, as far as I can remember, in spite of the death and destruction, people did not seem demoralized.
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Paul Krugman By all accounts, Rex Tillerson has demoralized and degraded the State Department to the point of uselessness.
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But Mr. Tillerson's determination to bring a business sensibility to the State Department backfired, leaving it demoralized and understaffed.
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But some say it is the near-collapse of their profession in the state that has truly demoralized them.
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The terrain wasn't likely to get any easier for the GOP Congress member, with Democrats energized and Republicans demoralized.
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At a time when thousands of demoralized teachers are walking out of schools, Edcamps offer both community and empowerment.
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Should the effort fail, current and former lawmakers said, the number of demoralized Republicans leaving the chamber could jump.
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The harder the president bangs these drums, the more Democrats become enraged and a segment of Republicans gets demoralized.
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Volunteers and activists in rural towns and swing counties are demoralized but still vow to turn out in November.
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The ghostwriter also recently found a way to overcome feeling demoralized about author credit by penning her own ebooks.
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But on this occasion, as he looked around at his students' demoralized faces, he knew he had missed the mark.
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The South Vietnamese were demoralized after the U.S. withdrawal of combat forces in 1973 and the cessation of military support.
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When grandiose promises on the campaign trail aren't kept once attaining power, a party's base becomes demoralized and recriminations follow.
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And Republican voters who are otherwise demoralized may have been given one final nudge to show up to the polls.
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In 1932, during the Great Depression, the country was so demoralized and so beaten down that nothing good seemed possible.
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"There's an insurgency among our people that has been seething for decades that have felt intimidated and demoralized," Black added.
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We are worried about parks themselves, about park rangers who are demoralized, and the many businesses that depend on visitors.
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The one dissenting judge stepped down from the bar six months later, demoralized by his inability to stop the sentencing.
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"I asked her if she ever felt demoralized by the behavior of the residents of her care," she tells them.
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The union is squeezed between revisionist Russia and President Trump's "America First," and demoralized by Britain's shocking vote for Brexit.
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Those teams are eager to do it," Baccigalupi said, "and demoralized to see bad and expensive software going out instead.
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"Those teams are eager to do it," Baccigalupi said, "and demoralized to see bad and expensive software going out instead."
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The GOP base could be demoralized that their party couldn't achieve what they had promised for seven years to do.
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But all of them felt increasingly depressed and demoralized about not being able to do the jobs they were passionate about.
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The station recruited some of the country's finest broadcast journalists, providing opportunities in a news media environment long demoralized by cutbacks.
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The activism around that has been fairly demoralized since patent reform was killed in Congress, but people haven't stopped hating patents.
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The agencies are either demoralized or downright hostile because of the way the administration has mismanaged them or cut their budgets.
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Enaim Trejo, a 21-year-old student, was one of those demoralized by the opposition's inability to agree on a strategy.
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When women who are treated harshly in a workplace don't just lean in and get brassy, but become demoralized, like Messi.
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While reform was welcomed, many inmates were demoralized both by the specifics of the proposed law and the process undergirding it.
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This is right: Republicans are demoralized and Democrats are energized in a way that's unusual for a non-presidential election year.
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Democrats have been devastated at every level of government, they're demoralized, beaten down and in a new civil war among themselves.
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"We're just demoralized," Slatic says, sounding exhausted while listing the obstacles still ahead in the fight to get his money back.
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The Giants' late-game heroics came at a moment when the team would have been forgiven for being demoralized and dispirited.
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Fed up and demoralized, I wandered off to the cinema and saw "Black '47," a thriller set during the Irish famine.
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Mr. Manamperi said he used to be a major in the Sri Lankan Army and felt completely demoralized by the attacks.
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Where the first "Gilded Age" saw enormous resistance to inequality, Fraser argues, ours has seen a distracted, demoralized culture of compliance.
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"People are incredibly demoralized about that," said Bob Fulkerson, a Warren supporter who co-founded the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada.
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I was just demoralized with the performance of former deputy (Scot) Peterson," Israel said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union.
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The album is human, a resource for anyone afraid to speak out, or for anyone simply feeling worn out and demoralized.
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They also said that after that encounter, they felt demoralized and didn't want to have anything more to do with that boss.
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In 2011, Turkey's top military commanders resigned, saying that their soldiers were demoralized and the commanders could no longer do their jobs.
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Getting put in the category of "underperforming" demoralized rather than motivated those workers and often caused them to continue the downward spiral.
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Demoralized by the pressures of being the public face of the band, Gabriel quit the scene when that tour wrapped in 1975.
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If and when LeBron lurches, he, too, hopes to find those demoralized Hawks, the time-killer Hawks, the disappointed and disappointing Hawks.
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He said Bolsonaro has deliberately demoralized environmental agencies and given wildcat miners an incentive to cut down trees and invade indigenous reservations.
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Shut out of the White House in three successive elections, demoralized and deflated, an already crippled GOP will be on life-support.
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His party's campaign operatives skillfully rose to the challenge of containing the brush fire of Democratic resistance and demoralized the president's opposition.
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The play pushed UAB's lead to 210-113 and demoralized a Northern Illinois secondary that already had given up two big plays.
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Mr. Judd credits Mr. Trump for improving morale at the Border Patrol, which he said had been demoralized by the Obama administration.
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Now the costs of that chaos are becoming starkly clear in the demoralized staff and policy disarray of a wayward White House.
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The Germans had assumed that with all its immigrant soldiers the United States Army would shatter into demoralized ethnic pieces when pressured.
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Employees "were constantly on the lookout for jobs that paid better and abused them less," Morris writes of the demoralized work force.
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Many volunteer firefighters are demoralized after working for weeks in smoke-filled landscapes scattered with the charred remains of animals and trees.
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Should Republican voters remain so demoralized — and Democrats so fired up — it could imperil dozens of congressional seats that are usually safe.
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"The people and its government will never be demoralized from achieving our development goals and the rebuilding of our country," he added.
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With Secretary of State Rex Tillerson increasingly isolated and the diplomatic corps demoralized, some believe the U.S. is adrift in the world.
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"It manifests as anxiety, depression, feeling demoralized and hopeless," said Dr. Jabari Jones, a psychiatrist with Maimonedes Medical Center in New York.
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Republicans win when people are demoralized and you have a small voter turnout, which by the way is why they love voter suppression.
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Obama insulted Americans who "cling to their guns and their Bibles" and demoralized the police officers who risk their lives to protect us.
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In his first term, Mr. Kim led reforms that included reorganizing and cutting the staff, which created a demoralized work force of thousands.
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When McMaster assembled this cohort on his first day, in the auditorium of the Eisenhower Building, many professional staffers were feeling acutely demoralized.
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Those pushing for a recount say they are trying to pick up the fight for a tired and demoralized candidate and her staff.
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Alas, the times aren't so good for the Jacobite troops — Claire says they're "broken and demoralized" after five months of crap Scottish weather.
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From Ms. Redstone's standpoint, Mr. Moonves seemed jealous of Mr. Bakish, who she felt was doing a good job reviving a demoralized Viacom.
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Michael Marcotte and Peter Tantsits, as the wayward, demoralized sons, lounge downstage left in an overturned, ratty sofa, bare-chested and smoking pot.
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"Those were lies, plain and simple," he said of the administration's comments about how the FBI was disorganized and demoralized under Comey's leadership.
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Some White House officials are demoralized, amid unusual chaos and uncertainty, even for this West Wing, according to a former top Trump official.
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Rathke said Pompeo's close relationship to Trump might improve the outlook within the department and among the demoralized foreign and civil service staff.
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Radical Hope By Junot Díaz Querida Q.: I hope that you are feeling, if not precisely better, then at least not so demoralized.
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By the time the emigrants reached the foothills of the Sierra in late October, they were fatally behind schedule, demoralized and already starving.
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Trump, meanwhile, is facing demoralized ranks among some establishment GOP figures in the states, who won't be doing much to help his cause.
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Anecdotally, the Department's workforce is completely demoralized — anxious about the security of their own jobs and confused by Tillerson's bunker-mentality governing style.
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But by the 1980s, demoralized after Vatican II failed to grant women the equality many nuns expected, the number of sisters was dwindling.
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Few Venezuelans expect a breakthrough this time, with opponents demoralized at seeing Maduro consolidate power and position himself for possible re-election in 2018.
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Sustained criticism by the President is also likely to have demoralized many intelligence officers and analysts, which may impede staff recruitment, retention, and performance.
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After a series of internal investigations and journalistic exposes, both denominations are reeling from scandals that have stained their reputations and demoralized the faithful.
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Some of the Islamic State's members will be demoralized by Mr. al-Baghdadi's death, but many will be reinvigorated by the idea of revenge.
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I THINK WHAT YOU HAVE IS LOOK, THIS IS A BASIC BLOCKING AND TACKLING RETAIL BUSINESS WHERE YOU'VE GOT A TREMENDOUSLY DEMORALIZED WORK FORCE.
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Conservatives were rejoicing, while progressives seemed demoralized and angry—once again, some inveighed, establishment liberals in Congress had sold out, or just looked weak.
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Voters could be demoralized if Justice Anthony Kennedy, a frequent swing vote on the Supreme Court, is not replaced with a right-leaning justice.
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That means Republicans have to take their divided and demoralized base and find ways to energize them, excite them, rally them, and revitalize them.
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Droegemeier is a working scientist whose enthusiasm will be infectious and convincing, something sorely needed within the demoralized ranks of federal and university scientists.
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More than at any time since the height of the Thatcher era in the 1980s, Labour is divided, demoralized and searching for an identity.
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Ms. Adler was threatened with early retirement, the report says, and though the administration relented, she was so demoralized that she soon retired anyway.
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"I'm feeling demoralized," said Joaquin Carcaño, one of the transgender plaintiffs in a lawsuit brought by the ACLU after HB2 was signed into law.
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I very nearly didn't send in this puzzle at all, as I was coming off a sizable string of rejections and felt rather demoralized.
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Those who serve him are forever fearful of being undercut, perpetually having to defend behavior from him that's indefensible, and demoralized as a result.
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As Cespedes and the Mets demoralized the Phillies' pitching staff, it was easy to forget who had even taken the mound for the Mets.
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A beleaguered, demoralized and reduced U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps will cripple our ability to respond to Coronavirus and other diseases like it.
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Republican commissioners have stated that they are content with a demoralized and dormant agency, since they prefer inactivity to what they see as tyranny.
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He had a particularly rough season as fan-favorite character Tyrion Lannister on Game of Thrones this year, with his character constantly defanged and demoralized.
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Really, in the space of about 10 or 12 minutes, Mike Pence turned a demoralized, dispirited, depressed, negative convention into an upbeat, optimistic, united convention.
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His introductory remarks to employees struck a moderate, respectful and assuring tone to demoralized career officers worried about the direction of foreign policy under Trump.
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President Trump's dehumanizing rhetoric of the U.S. being " infested" by undocumented immigrants has damaged public trust in ICE and has demoralized some of its agents.
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From the beginning of the film, Holm feels frustrated and demoralized by being stuck behind a desk, but then he gets the call from Iben.
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But the move risks backfiring as she inherits the task of reviving a demoralized and under-equipped Bundeswehr plagued by scandals and right-wing extremism.
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Tom Countryman, like many senior officials I spoke to, was demoralized by Trump's election, but he decided to carry on until his replacement was named.
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The Race to the Top demoralized teachers, caused teacher shortages and led to the defunding of the arts and other subjects that were not tested.
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One of Mr. Clinton's closest allies said he had been demoralized by an election that had resuscitated talk of his sexual affairs, alleged and otherwise.
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" World Vision Australia's Chief Advocate Tim Costello said that he witnessed around 20 refugees being taken from the camp on buses Thursday morning, "looking demoralized.
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Fearing a backlash from their increasingly demoralized IRGC troops, the Iranian regime has turned to desperate measures to bolster recruits for the Syrian front lines.
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It has now spread deep into the ranks of the Afghan military, whose leaders have enriched themselves, leaving soldiers exposed and demoralized on the battlefield.
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She had grown demoralized, thinking she might never have a place of her own to call home, somewhere free of sign-in logs and curfews.
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Neighbors were already exhausted and demoralized by the even greater trauma of displacement and disruption caused by the Cross-Bronx Expressway, developed by Mr. Moses.
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Residents of eastern Mosul sprinted home, terrified by the latest attack by the Islamic State, and demoralized by the certainty that more would be coming.
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In 2009, in the wake of the financial crash, he was named head of enforcement at the Securities and Exchange Commission, revitalizing a demoralized unit.
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Although I was exhausted, I kept my ringing and buzzing cell on and started fielding countless emails, texts, and calls from depressed and demoralized people.
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For many who did not vote for Donald Trump, his unexpected victory has left us much more alarmed, bewildered, and demoralized than previous electoral defeats.
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According to the Post, many remaining employees are "demoralized" and waiting to bail until November, when they will be allowed to exercise all their stock options.
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He demoralized his base, and people who already hated him don't like him any more, but now they can accuse him of being a flip-flopper.
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"The Green Party scam to fill up their coffers by asking for impossible recounts is now being joined by the badly defeated & demoralized Dems," Trump tweeted.
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In a key scene, OSU's all-white football team barks racist invective at the track team, and Owens and his friends are distracted, frustrated, and demoralized.
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After repeated political attacks, attempts at merger, and reductions in force during the 1990s, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) became demoralized, disempowered and disrespected.
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The exploding drones harassed and demoralized Iraqi and US troops during the long battle to liberate the city of Mosul from militants in 2016 and 2017.
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And while his poll numbers might have stayed the same, the Russia investigation might not have become the lightning rod that's energized Democrats and demoralized Republicans.
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Vice President Biden demoralized pro-democracy demonstrators, insisting Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was not a dictator as his security forces were brutally trying to crush them.
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"If proven by a due legal process, these actions deserve unreserved condemnation; Gaza's demoralized and vulnerable citizens deserve so much better," he said in a statement.
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However, they have failed to give evidence of ballot-tampering, and some opposition candidates have conceded they lost due to high abstention in their demoralized ranks.
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Just twenty-nine years old, Soutine was a star, profiting from a renewed taste for representational art in the demoralized wake of the First World War.
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Now, opposition leaders want their demoralized supporters to turn out en masse at the gubernatorial polls to overturn Maduro's majority in 20 of Venezuela's 23 states.
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Yet the Trump administration has weakened the State Department, demoralized our diplomats and threatened programs that foster growth overseas and work to preserve peace and stability.
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For many in the Taliban, Mullah Mansour's death represented a devastating betrayal by their longtime patron and sponsor, Pakistan, that has split and demoralized the ranks.
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Basically what they said to me is that whole total straightforwardness was causing people to be demoralized or whatever it is, and I didn't know that.
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The "re-education" was aimed at making prisoners "so demoralized, confused, shattered and desperate" that they would sign loyalty declarations to the government, according to Papaeti.
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Elizabeth Warren convened a conference call Tuesday night after her fourth-place finish in the New Hampshire primary and delivered some straight talk to demoralized staffers.
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" Yet Reagan's appointees still had a real impact: "Environmental and conservation agencies were starved for money, the agencies were politicized and their staffs were demoralized, critics say.
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He said his first priority was to ensure that State Department employees, demoralized under Mr. Tillerson, were empowered and had a clear understanding of Mr. Trump's goals.
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Naturally, Dan's moods fluctuate, from cheery and energetic to demoralized and red-eyed, frequently staring at the camera before averting his gaze, not wanting to break down.
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On the day of the election, I had to work but was closely following the election on my phone and felt demoralized when Trump defeated Hillary Clinton.
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However, soon after kick off it became obvious that players were actually not demoralized at all, and chances started happening at both ends at the Volgograd Arena.
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Demoralized and irked by the blatant tax favoritism for non-residents, few residents care to know how much tax revenue escapes in the defiant, local underground economy.
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This is the voice of a man —and a movement — who is tired, beaten, and demoralized, who starts sentences he can barely muster enough energy to finish.
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The high school basketball score is 26-266, the losing side is exhausted and demoralized, and the winning coach still has all the starters in — shooting threes.
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Stephen Curry, who scored 23 points, demoralized the Cavaliers early in the third quarter with back-to-back 23-pointers to push the Warriors' lead to 23.
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Bloomberg is, after all, the mayor who opted to cheer up demoralized staffers at Goldman Sachs when a former executive pilloried the investment bank behemoth upon resigning.
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On Monday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer admitted that Trump was "demoralized" by the nation's negative reaction to his undemocratic ascension to the nation's highest office.
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Most important, Mr. Cryan has been trying to convince investors and demoralized employees that Deutsche Bank can find new sources of profit and growth despite its setbacks.
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After he took over the State Department last April, Mr. Pompeo promised to return "swagger" to the ranks, which had been depleted and demoralized under Mr. Tillerson.
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That, in turn, could create a downward spiral, as an understaffed and demoralized company fails to execute well, leading to further bad press and even lower morale.
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Few Venezuelans expect further talks to yield a breakthrough, with Maduro's foes demoralized at seeing him consolidate power ahead of a likely re-election campaign in 2018.
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What do Republicans have to lose in pursuing their signature campaign promise, given that Democrats are already very energized for the 2018 midterms while GOP voters seem demoralized?
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READ: Demoralized EPA employees brace for "wholesale war on the environment" Pruitt tapped Michael Honeycutt, the head toxicologist at Texas Commission on Environment Quality, to lead the board.
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The court's ruling was just the latest blow to the demoralized opposition, which is seeking to unseat unpopular leftist Maduro in the midst of a brutal economic crisis.
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Demoralized but not deflated by a 165-0 deficit, the Mets salvaged the game for their slumping starter, coming back for an 8-6 victory at Citi Field.
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The story of Alabama is a familiar one in the Trump era: The Republican base is demoralized and divided, while the Democratic base is mobilized and increasingly united.
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He said he was worried the United Kingdom was "so demoralized and so exhausted" that it might submit to foreign rule, a clear attack on May's Brexit plans.
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They call it the "Ferguson effect": the idea that protests against excessive use of force by police has demoralized police officers and emboldened criminals, leading to more crime.
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Pompeo drew a gentle but pointed contrast between himself and Tillerson, noting that employees had told him that they felt "demoralized" and he has committed to filling vacancies.
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The 33-year old party leader, who is Italy's foreign minister, is having growing problems controlling his movement, which is internally divided and demoralized by its dwindling support.
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Feature With an isolated leader, a demoralized diplomatic corps and a president dismantling international relations one tweet at a time, American foreign policy is adrift in the world.
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The Times Magazine took a close look at the inner workings of the State Department and found it adrift and demoralized under Rex Tillerson, the secretary of state.
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READ: Demoralized EPA employees brace for wholesale war on the environment New exploratory drilling operations have been greenlighted through the GOP tax bill in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge.
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" On Saturday night, Trump tweeted, "The Green Party scam to fill up their coffers by asking for impossible recounts is now being joined by the badly defeated & demoralized Dems.
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During the Q. and A. that night, Zahedi said that there wasn't going to be another season of "The Show" — too many people had quit; he was too demoralized.
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Maybe after watching the Raptors get demoralized in the first two (home) games against Cleveland, he feels vindicated that his Pacers pushed the Cavs to a full seven games.
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The drop in incomes has demoralized many drivers and the New York Taxi Workers Alliance said there have been six suicides among cab and livery drivers in recent months.
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" This is how The New York Times described the EPA shortly before Gorsuch resigned: "Once noted for its efficiency and esprit, the agency is now demoralized and virtually inert.
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By the time the European Union trade pact took effect as scheduled, many Ukrainians were so distracted or demoralized by war and years of recession that they hardly noticed.
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Mr. Trump's landslide victory in New York last week and an expected win Tuesday in a handful of Eastern states has demoralized those Republicans hoping to halt his candidacy.
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Democratic leaders came out strongly against this bill, arguing that it demoralized the livelihood of DACA recipients by using them as a bargaining chip to further a conservative agenda.
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Gerrymandering is the big story for Democrats in Pennsylvania, aided by the national environment (Democratic voters are energized, Republican voters are demoralized) in what is still a competitive state.
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City cut through Jürgen Klopp's team with almost embarrassing ease; much the same way, in fact, as Liverpool toyed with a disconsolate, demoralized Arsenal a couple of weeks before.
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One student wrote about the activity: It demoralized the literature: you can't just replace a classic with "😂😂😂🔥🔥🔥" and say it is the same.
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Iran, analysts have pointed out, is a far more formidable and better-armed adversary than the demoralized and badly equipped Iraqi forces the US faced in its 2003 war.
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" Edie Conekin-Tooze on "After Georgia Election, Democrats Are Demoralized, Again" Lillie Dravis on "Out of High School, Into Real Life" Samaa Khullar on "The Secret to My Success?
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Some of those embassy officials described to BuzzFeed News a feeling of being demoralized, and said they have been ordered to keep a low profile amid the impeachment saga.
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Our new president campaigned directly to those white people who are terrified by our resolve to not merely survive, but to represent America as something other than demoralized chattel.
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Daniela, a 22-year-old lesbian from Cuba, who was among the LGBT group escorted by Castro said she was disappointed and demoralized after being sent back to Matamoros.
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She is both the first woman to lead a major party ticket and the candidate who lost the Electoral College in a defeat that left Democrats stunned and demoralized.
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The psychological effects of Menlo Park's heightened police presence have demoralized residents of color, who told the Almanac about instances of being profiled by officers or searched during traffic stops.
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Strangers in a hostile land, their security will depend on whatever demoralized, exiled fragments of the SDF survive Turkish assault and a local tribal militia of dubious loyalty and effectiveness.
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Instead, they led to a short-lived Vatican-championed dialogue that helped shore up the unpopular president and divided the opposition Democratic Unity coalition, leaving rank-and-file activists demoralized.
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And Trump promised during the campaign that he would supply material and moral support to law enforcement ranks that have been demoralized by criticism and opportunistic bashing from multiple circles.
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The fact that Trump has demoralized the State Department with threatened budget cuts will only make the military, which has been promised a massive budget increase, all the more dominant.
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But I'm also struck by how often I find sales models discouraging now, becoming demoralized as I look up lists of "must-have" DLC and how the costs add up.
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Mr. Sanders's populist message has broken through in several other states in the industrial heartland, including neighboring Michigan, and he could score an upset that would reinvigorate his demoralized supporters.
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But he reckoned without Muharrem Ince, the presidential candidate of the secularist Republican People's Party (CHP), whose feisty performance at campaign rallies has galvanized Turkey's long-demoralized and divided opposition.
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Yes, people can feel demoralized that they've put themselves on the line, and then someone ends up getting just a coupe of years, but that's the way it is sometimes.
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These fears are overblown, however, for one major reason that everyone seems to have overlooked: The Ukrainian military of today is very different from the ramshackle, demoralized force of 2014.
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The handling of that complaint — which included an aggressive pushback by representatives from Mr. Meehan's office and congressional lawyers, who suggested she had misinterpreted the congressman's behavior — demoralized the aide.
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Demoralized, activists were unable to maintain mass interest in their cause, and many observers, including the Chinese Communist Party itself, believed the 2014 movement had been Hong Kong's last stand.
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I was unimpressed, demoralized even, so Liete took me for a scenic drive in the hills near Berkeley, and later we indulged in comfort shopping and some Napa Valley wines.
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His chapter about the AIDS crisis, which tested the mettle of many physicians — they were at once afraid for their health and demoralized by their powerlessness — is moving and humane.
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While everyone wishes to win, it's more important that neither side is ever completely defeated or has demoralized its opponents to the point that they no longer want to play.
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Leaders of two employee associations described in interviews this week a demoralized, beleaguered work force that had been contending for years with budget cuts and a rise in illegal mining.
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Opposition to Hungary's Fidesz or Poland's Law and Justice party seemed demoralized and disorganized from the start; Trump's opposition has, when all is said and done, been spirited and cohesive.
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" His mother emerged from her 1983 resignation demoralized about Washington, which she called "too small to be a state but too large to be an asylum for the mentally deranged.
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Leaders of two employee associations described in interviews this week a demoralized, beleaguered work force that had been contending for years with budget cuts and a rise in illegal mining.
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I felt demoralized in a way that reminded me of when the handle comes off the grocery bag and your apples roll down the stairs: dull, but somehow all-encompassing.
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That will bring you to a pretty extensive landing page, where you can get a taste of how Facebook advertisers see you — so be prepared to be a little demoralized.
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As the Kerensky offensive demonstrated, the Russian Army, while demoralized, was still an effective fighting force, and the front line was far closer to the territory of the Central Powers.
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When VICE News visited the area in early April, evidence of recent food consumption led straight to the demoralized few holding out in the woods hoping for a better life.
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Some defenders of police referenced the "Ferguson effect": the idea that more scrutiny of police since the Ferguson, Missouri, protests has demoralized cops and emboldened criminals, leading to more crime.
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LE HAVRE, France (Reuters) - England marched into the women's World Cup semi-finals with an impressive 3-0 victory over demoralized Norway on Thursday, delivering their best performance of the tournament.
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They warned that if Trump pulled Kavanaugh's nomination as the judge faced sexual assault allegations, their voters would be demoralized and might not turn out in the numbers needed in November.
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I had never been fired from a job in my life, and at the time it seemed like the worst thing in the world to be 27, unemployed, and horribly demoralized.
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They are demoralized and anxious, afraid of becoming the villain in a cellphone video that spreads across the globe — creating a situation some say could result in safety lapses on planes.
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The risk for Republicans, at this point, isn't so much that Gillibrand will win — she clearly will — but that core elements of the GOP base will be demoralized and not vote.
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It galvanized Venezuela's demoralized and divided opposition coalition and sparked international condemnation and concern from the United Nations and European Union, as well as the United States and many neighboring countries.
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It's conceivable that Sally, demoralized by the conspicuous wealth she will never attain, is not particularly happy, and she might even be unhappier than Seema, who is grateful for small mercies.
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The second factor is arguably more important: Republican voters are demoralized because the Republican president is enormously unpopular and the Republican Party has spent the past year doing enormously unpopular things.
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Clinton and concerned that the inquiry would nudge demoralized Republicans to show up to vote for down-ballot candidates — and perhaps even cast ballots, however reluctantly, for the battered Mr. Trump.
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For the demoralized herd of reporters who have spent the last two years being smacked around by Ms. Sanders, her last hurrah was just another happy-hour opportunity to source up.
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It's no surprise that Asian alumni, students and activists have protested that the mayor's plan is punitive toward them and are angry and demoralized by the way they are being described.
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One other thing for Giants fans demoralized or infuriated by Manning's jagged performance on Thursday: Do not give up or turn your back on the face of the team since 2004.
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You know as long as we stay divided then all of our adversaries continue to win-- INGRAHAM: But is the Intel community demoralized, crippled, upset about what Donald Trump did in Helsinki?
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In the more-likely-than-not event that Kavanaugh ends up being confirmed, some worry that Democratic voters will be demoralized — and less likely to show up to the polls come November.
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Dabadie said he had last spoken to Jackson, whose son turned 4 months old Monday, a few days ago when he had gone to boost the morale of the badly demoralized department.
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They note that "Charging Bull" was created in the aftermath of the 1987 stock market crash as a positive symbol for a demoralized Wall Street, and yet now that symbolism is lost.
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McMaster was asked to publicly step before the cameras Monday night and deny the story, Trump administration sources familiar with the matter told CNN, which demoralized some members of his own NSC.
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Warren has been the most active of this group in rallying her demoralized party to stand up to the president-elect, focusing her criticism on Sessions and senior Trump adviser Stephen Bannon.
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Diplomats were reportedly demoralized by Tillerson's "distant management style," as well as his unwillingness to consult in-house experts and "inability to get personnel choices" through the Trump White House, Reuters reported.
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With the department understaffed and demoralized, and managed by a secretary who seems isolated from the agency he oversees, America's Middle East policy won't be guided by those who believe in diplomacy.
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An unpredictable corollary to this despair: Black parents, Mr. Younge writes, are so demoralized that they dwell on personal responsibility rather than on economic and racial inequality (the usual white-liberal reflex).
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BECKY QUICK: You've compared it to-- CHARLIE MUNGER: The opportunities that we all remember came from a demoralized period when about 1003% of the natural stock buyers got very discouraged with stocks.
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Those manning the security checkpoint can be demoralized by the lack of pay, or exhausted and less sharp from covering extra shifts, according to union officials who are also employed by TSA.
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Demoralized and defeated Republican incumbents are not exactly champing at the bit to cast controversial votes on Mr. Trump's border wall — or anything else, for that matter — as their last official acts.
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And it was often hard for Americans, confused and often demoralized, to differentiate between the communist guys supporting North Vietnam's cause and the local guys who were supposed to be their allies.
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But after a review of the tape, it appears as though the whaboom that leaves Mr. Kutcher so utterly demoralized inexplicably charms our Bachelorette, so Lucas may survive to whaboom another day.
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It is defined by direct confrontation with conservative institutions and legislators, blunt talk about economic grievance and an unrelenting effort to inspire demoralized, lower-income voters with promises of true societal transformation.
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Now I have President Trump to thank for the answer: Doing as he does reveals a willingness to take credit but reluctance to take the blame, leaving his subordinates unsupported and demoralized.
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As the April 6 leader prepared to report for his own far stricter surveillance, I asked him whether this routine, a constant reminder of the unyielding power of the state, demoralized him.
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Workers build makeshift bridges to help the crabs cross a roadside ditch, but our sole bridge to the detainees is Poh Lin Lee, a demoralized trauma counselor whose patients are slowly deteriorating.
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"It's not unusual for an armed force to rapidly lose territory once its forward units are defeated or demoralized," says Robert Farley, a political scientist who studies airpower at the University of Kentucky.
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A demoralized air hangs over the council, knowing their work is treated with skepticism by the West Wing and often doesn't drive policy decisions in the way a traditional National Security Council would.
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Saban did not have to worry about social mores, but he also did not have to rebuild a depleted war chest or improve subpar facilities, or rebuild the confidence of a demoralized program.
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He brought forward the elections from November 2019, but he faced an unexpectedly feisty challenge from Ince, a former physics teacher and veteran CHP lawmaker, who galvanized Turkey's long-demoralized and divided opposition.
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The goal: to firm up his demoralized base, extract a price from everybody in the GOP who tries to defect, and do so by subjecting Clinton to maximal humiliation in the public sphere.
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In Melbourne this year he appeared demoralized after losing 6-0 in the fifth set to South Korean youngster Hyeon Chung in the third — earning only five points in a deciding-set meltdown.
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Kelly will be faced with the immediate challenge of restoring public confidence in the department's mission and the confidence of demoralized agencies within DHS charged with protecting the security of the American people.
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For Democrats demoralized by the election of Donald Trump, particularly in light of Republican control of Congress, there is some minor hope to be found still in Lil Wayne's home state of Louisiana.
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However, he thinks Venezuelans have largely been demoralized after a crackdown on protests last year triggered dozens of deaths, and the threat of more repression has forced dozens of opposition leaders into exile.
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Others have dismissed Tillerson's tenure, saying his business experience hadn't translated into government leadership and pointing to the downsized and demoralized State Department he leaves behind, with many senior diplomatic positions still unfilled.
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Then there is the issue of whether a crisis-addled and demoralized White House will dampen GOP turnout in midterm elections where a defeat could shatter the bond between Trump and his party.
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CHICAGO — The nation's third-largest city will end 0003 with a surging murder rate, a demoralized and distrusted police force and a weary populace that has become inured to daily reports of shootings.
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Even more encouraging was the fact that Turkey's fractured and long-demoralized opposition forged an alliance behind Muhharem Ince, a former physics teacher and veteran lawmaker, with the center-left Republican People's Party.
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Ecuador not-exactly-but-pretty-much accuses WikiLeaks of trying to tamper with the US elections; why Hillary Clinton's inner circle is demoralized (hint: see previous); the surprisingly close race for the US Senate.
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His appointment reflected a desire by the board to bring in outside blood as Airbus endured turmoil over the impact of ongoing UK and French corruption investigations, which severely demoralized the Airbus marketing machine.
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She said she was left feeling demoralized thinking about how much time and energy had gone into writing letters to attorneys over the past two months, and seeing little action taken in the investigation.
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Beginning with the postwar period, when a ruined and demoralized continent started to rebuild itself through close cooperation among countries, the British could never decide what their relationship with that new Europe should be.
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The legal team, while continuing to speak with the special counsel about the President's potential testimony (which now seems highly unlikely), is a demoralized bunch, although they would never admit it out of loyalty.
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The Treasury and Justice Department units working against North Korea's sanctions violations are understaffed and overworked, and in some cases, demoralized by a lack of political support for prosecuting the results of their work.
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The reveal comes at the very end of the episode after a defeated, demoralized Melisandre (played by Carice van Houten) very slowly removes her powerful necklace, which has apparently been hiding her true form.
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Over the years there have been numerous reports about America's dangerously outdated nuclear arsenal—a system that relies on 1970s-era technology, demoralized personnel, and a command-and-control infrastructure that is inherently flawed.
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They are banged up, undeniably demoralized and still thoroughly unsure if Durant can come back and try to save this group — but they are also genuinely impressed by what Toronto has done to them.
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That Ms. Winfrey could probably beat those considered likely front-runners — Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Kirsten Gillibrand — is testament to how demoralized and devoid of fresh political talent the post-Obama party has become.
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Often accused of having committed torture, extrajudicial killings and other serious human rights abuses, the general nevertheless was a major presence in the national psyche of a country battered and demoralized by the Taliban.
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Mr. Northam's victory was a tonic to an anxious national party that has been reeling since Mr. Trump's win last year and was demoralized by losses in special House elections in Montana and Georgia.
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Right now, Britain is pessimistic and demoralized, so much so that 280 promises to be an "annus horribilis" more profound than the one famously described by Queen Elizabeth II nearly a quarter-century ago.
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When Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was indicted on a charge of lying to investigators about the leak of a C.I.A. officer's identity, West Wing colleagues were demoralized.
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Men who were eager to prove themselves in battle grew demoralized marking time on bases that gave them ramshackle housing and confined them to Jim Crow buses and even "colored only" sections of movie theaters.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - From his refuge at the Chilean ambassador's home, Venezuela's deputy congressional leader has defended "civil disobedience" against President Nicolas Maduro and urged demoralized opponents to unite and oust him in a presidential vote.
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We on the left — perhaps liberals, too — are so used to being defeated, demoralized, and depressed, so used to losing to the right, that we have little sense that the right can suffer the same.
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Hamilton's win in Baku last year was the Briton's first of the season and he chalked up 10 more on his way to a fifth world title, while Bottas ended the year winless and demoralized.
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In the process, Mr. Barr demoralized some of the department's rank and file and lent credence to Republican politicians who seek to elevate the Mueller investigation into an election-year political issue — including Mr. Trump.
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The state uses universal testing to identify and elevate meritocrats, leaving most of England's citizens poor and demoralized, without even a legitimate grievance, since, after all, who could argue that the wise should not rule?
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Mr. Tillerson was roundly criticized by a much-demoralized diplomatic corps, accused of gutting budgets and staffing levels in a reflection of what many see as a long, downward trajectory of the State Department's influence.
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"Chinatown"'s murky and amoral plot — involving a corrupt web of stolen water rights and sleazy land development, behind which lurk the even darker sins of murder and incest — resonated with demoralized Watergate-era audiences.
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ISIS, meanwhile, stays strong because of a ready infusion of recruits from demoralized regional militants, including Pakistani Taliban fighters pushed into Afghanistan by counterterrorism operations across the border in the North Waziristan region of Pakistan.
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That implies that the shifts in polling had less to do with people switching sides from Obama to Romney and more to do with demoralized Obama supporters being less likely to respond to polling questions.
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In a reference to the original Black Lives Matter protests in Ferguson, Missouri, this became known as the "Ferguson effect" — the idea that protests against police had demoralized police and emboldened criminals, leading to more crime.
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" In a tweet on Saturday, Trump derided the fundraising effort by Stein to launch recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania as a "scam" that is "is now being joined by the badly defeated and demoralized Dems.
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Conversely, agencies that feel under attack by the president, such as the Central Intelligence Agency and the Environmental Protection Agency, are likely to become demoralized—and to spring leaks that will only further enrage the president.
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" In a tweet on Saturday, Trump derided the fundraising effort by Stein to launch recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania as a "scam" that is "is now being joined by the badly defeated and demoralized Dems.
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Such inaction, Republican strategists fear, could leave their base so demoralized and disgusted that it might oust incumbents in the primaries in favor of less electable insurgents, then fail to turn out come election day 2018.
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If Muslims want to be in this country but get racially demoralized by some people up to the level of the POTUS, it truly questions whether or not America is truly the land of the free.
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Mr. Flynn's concealment of the call's content, combined with questions about his management of his agency and reports of a demoralized staff, put him in a precarious position less than a month into Mr. Trump's presidency.
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In probably his greatest success to date, he has galvanized a demoralized military and pushed the group out of large swaths of the Nigerian northeast that seemed to have been ceded to them by his predecessor.
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It might help galvanize demoralized lawmakers and activists, win over undecided voters and help encourage greater international criticism of Mr. Orban, said Csaba Toth, executive director of the Republikon Institute, a Budapest-based political research group.
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While the tax legislation is broadly unpopular as it reaches President Trump's desk, the bill offers Republicans the sort of signature accomplishment they have been lacking to galvanize their demoralized donors and many of their voters.
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I was utterly demoralized and ready to quit while also feeling a tinge of resentment toward the rich kids whose parents had taken care of their children's donations, sparing them the humiliation of begging from strangers.
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Wauthier, 53, killed himself after writing a suicide note addressed "To whom it may concern" in which he described becoming demoralized by what he called a new, more aggressive tone at Zurich under then-Chairman Josef Ackermann.
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Gabriel Byrne stars in this comic drama about an aging actor who should be auditioning for the title role in "King Lear" but is so demoralized that he's grateful to be considered for the part of Fool.
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Like many a brutal demise, the end was messy and at times uncomfortable to watch as the Spaniard cut loose after tense early exchanges, winning nine straight games to crush the demoralized American 7-403 6-0.
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The far-right anti-government talkers, supported by anti-establishment groups, have pushed the party to a nihilism reflected in the interviews of demoralized Republican leaders by Jackie Calmes in They Don't Give a Damn about Governing.
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Nobody knows who or what would emerge from that, but one guarantee is it would leave Trump and his supporters enraged and demoralized at what they will see as an underhanded theft of a nomination they earned.
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Political analysts believe Da Silva could rally the opposition, which has been demoralized by the corruption scandals, impeachment of Da Silva's hand-picked successor, Da Silva's imprisonment and, more recently, a clobbering in the 2018 general elections.
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The cast also features Tony Goldwyn ("Scandal") as Max Schumacher, the network's demoralized news president, and Tatiana Maslany ("Orphan Black") as Diana Christensen, an ambitious programming executive, characters played on screen by William Holden and Faye Dunaway.
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Current and recently departed E.P.A. staff members said the new direction has left many employees feeling frozen in place, and demoralized, particularly in the regional offices, which have investigators who are especially knowledgeable of local pollution threats.
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And that he's done nothing up till this point, and the first thing he would do is ask for this guy, is just—if I had an application in, I would be very demoralized seeing something like that.
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"When grandiose promises on the campaign trail aren't kept once attaining power, a party's base becomes demoralized and recriminations follow," Bill Scher wrote in a Politico piece cautioning his fellow Democrats not to go full Medicare for all.
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But after arriving in the country that was offering them refuge, instead of finding a system eager to put his talents to use, Mr. Ebrahim said, he encountered hurdles and delays that left him discouraged, demoralized and frustrated.
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"The simple fact is that Republicans win national elections when people are demoralized, when they give up on politics and when they don't come out to vote – that's just the simple fact," he said at Iowa State University.
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Infighting takes a toll on fundraising All of the infighting took a toll on Harris' staff, who grew demoralized by the day as poll after poll showed Harris losing ground both nationally and in key states like Iowa.
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Since taking over in April, Pompeo has lavished attention on diplomats demoralized by the former oil executive's distant management style, reluctance to consult in-house experts and inability to get personnel choices through President Donald Trump's White House.
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Donald Trump's "unconventional" approach to the presidency, and the White House's seeming message to employees that they can accept the executive order on immigration or leave, had meant that Tillerson was taking charge of a frustrated and demoralized workforce.
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At the height of his dominance, as he racked up nine Grand Slam singles titles in five years, Rafael Nadal demoralized opponents with his peerless court coverage, retrieving shots that would have been clear winners against almost anyone else.
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CARACAS/SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela (Reuters) - With some nursing wounds, others jailed and many heading abroad, Venezuela's young opposition supporters are demoralized by the ruling socialists' shock election win this month, after prolonged protests failed to oust President Nicolas Maduro.
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The rise of Barack Obama and the political success of liberal social causes, especially LGBTQ rights, has demoralized many on the right, who are now looking to foreign lands and autocratic leaders to stem the tide of moral degradation.
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"The military forces are tired," Bartels remarked in an interview with the German newspaper Handelsblatt on Wednesday, a day after he released a report that depicted Germany's military as small, demoralized, and struggling to fulfill missions with malfunctioning equipment.
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Photo: Ian Laidlaw At various points on More Scared Of You Than You Are Of Me, the Melbourne punks' upcoming fourth record, he is excited, elated, nervous, self-conscious, demoralized, miserable, manic, overjoyed, blasé, rebounding, and just plain okay.
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Airbus has endured what insiders describe as a painful year, falling sharply behind Boeing and seeing its sales teams demoralized by the impact of UK and French probes into the use of middlemen by a now-disbanded headquarters unit.
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In the emails, Ms. Staple called him "an excellent leader," strategized about how to get the department's support to get "some of the dead weight out of the school," and urged him not to be demoralized by the investigations.
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"He should feel demoralized that a guy that was literally in the hospital having surgeries about six weeks ago beat him out for the starting gig," Mr. Scalise, whose movement is still limited, said minutes before the game began.
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And same fans streaming to the exits, their title hopes as robust as ever, as another demoralized opponent retreated to the visitors' locker room at AT&T Center to tackle a confounding riddle: How do you beat the Spurs?
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Within days of his swearing-in, demoralized E.P.A. workers were reminded of Mr. Pruitt's close working ties to the fossil fuel industry as thousands of his emails were released showing his office dealing hand in glove with industry lobbyists.
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Though she insisted that many of the crucial issues in the race were local — like funding for public schools and fighting drug addiction — she acknowledged there was considerable symbolic importance, too, for demoralized Democrats in Mr. Biden's home state.
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Their two hits, the sublime "She's Not There" and "Tell Her No," had charted over three years before—an eternity in '60s pop time—and public disinterest in their recent output left the band broke, demoralized, and unable to continue.
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For a recent Atlantic piece about the State Department, Julie Ioffe spent some time in the State Department observing how demoralized civil servants are because they have nothing to do and because most key posts have not even been filled.
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He used the power and visibility of the presidency to impress his midwestern base of union and blue-collar voters -- even as the demoralized party of ex-President Barack Obama struggles to settle on a message to win them back.
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American Muslims, a key line of defense against homegrown jihadis, will be demoralized by what they feel is a discriminatory policy, particularly the language in the executive order that talks about keeping immigrants out who don't support America's founding principles.
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ERBIL/SULAIMANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - One of the dominant Kurdish parties in northern Iraq said it might not recognize the results of Sunday's parliamentary election and then appeared to backtrack, injecting uncertainty into a region demoralized by a failed independence bid.
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But her move into a role dubbed "the ejector seat" - such is the career damage to recent incumbents - risks backfiring as she inherits the task of reviving a demoralized and under-equipped Bundeswehr dogged by scandals and right-wing extremism.
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"When institutions are consistently able to get a different result by appealing to GM (general manager) levels and above, line supervisors become demoralized and institutions become emboldened to push the limits," the report quoted an unnamed staff member as saying.
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"So I believe, quite honestly, that with the enthusiasm that we are generating, with the kind of voter turnout that I think we can bring out -- look, Republicans win when people are demoralized and the voter turnout is low," he said.
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Exerting all that effort for no reward seemed to knock the stuffing out of Halep and Kerber pounced again to seize another break against a demoralized opponent to give her the breathing room she needed to seal an ultimately comfortable victory.
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An, who says he was tortured by intelligence agents when jailed as a student activist, has also courted younger voters who have been demoralized over job prospects in a sluggish economy and have been leading weekly rallies for Park's ouster.
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So, yeah, the Bastard of Winterfell comes back to life after Melisandre reads the liner notes to Slayer backward to no apparent effect and Dolorous Edd, Davos, and Tormund let themselves out, followed at length by a thoroughly demoralized Melisandre.
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Instead, they see more evidence of what they've been arguing all along: that the media has consistently overstated Clinton's lock on the nomination, and in doing so have demoralized potential Sanders supporters and wrongfully influenced the state of the primary.
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If the kids at the German school in Istanbul are reputed to be moody and poetic, and the kids at the French school are rumored to be demoralized by strict teachers, then the Robert College kids seemed confident, outgoing, and open.
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Her women, demoralized by the absence of fathers and husbands, by stunted careers and aimless children, are locked in self-doubt and self-flagellation, though rarely do they lose faith in "better times," even when they've had slim experience of them.
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With Republicans controlling the White House, both chambers of Congress and having successfully fended off Democratic challenges in four special elections this year, the party is enjoying a dominance not seen for decades and has left the Democrats divided and demoralized.
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The run-up to Mr. Xi's speech aroused expectations of change, because the government had become increasingly concerned that private businesses — the engine of employment growth and innovation — have been demoralized by too much taxation, bureaucracy and barriers to bank loans.
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So the plan was a disciplined year focused on promoting the 2017 tax cuts and encouraging economic news, and avoiding as much as possible anything that either demoralized the Republican base or invigorated an already energetic and enthusiastic Democratic base.
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WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday extolled the "essential rightness" of the United States in global affairs as he urged demoralized U.S. diplomats to act firmly and aggressively as they promote and carry out the Trump administration&aposs foreign policies.
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So I was a bit demoralized, if not depressed, when I saw last night that some people on Twitter were openly speculating about whether a series of deadly explosions in Massachusetts were caused by a cyberattack, with no evidence to back it up.
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Because of gerrymandering a four-point Clinton win would not deliver Democrats the House, but a ten-point win—which would partly rely on lower turnout by demoralized Republicans—might cause such Republican carnage that Democrats could seize full control of Congress.
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If your idea of social life is a four-day Twitch bender played under a codename, at least you don't have to leave behind all the comforts of home—screens, anonymity—when you're demoralized enough by digital compulsions to bust open a FreeConferenceCall.
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Eleanor, a broke, erudite, angry, and demoralized thirty-nine-year-old woman coping with a trauma that she refers to only as "the thing that had happened," is the protagonist of a novel that the narrator of this novel is struggling to finish.
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The secretary is widely seen as lacking influence with Mr. Trump; often eclipsed on the world stage by the ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley; accessible only to a small coterie of aides; and detached from an increasingly demoralized diplomatic corps.
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Democrats can go the old route that has consistently failed to come close to winning and demoralized supporters down the line, or they can do the math and follow the example of Ms. Abrams and Mr. Gillum and Mr. Obama before them.
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That lopsided result will be a lifelong keepsake for Kerkhove and Schuurs, a first-time doubles team, but Serena Williams, who had not played a tour-level match since winning the Australian Open in January 20203, did not sound demoralized in the least.
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The question is particularly acute in the House, where the Republican majority could be at risk in 2018 if the party's voters are demoralized, and Democratic activists, energized by the chance to send a message to President Trump, stream to the polls.
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In a sharp critique in The New Republic, Sarah Leonard questioned his downplaying of the power of capital over labor, as well as his faith that demoralized meritocrats might make common cause with the beleaguered middle class in exchange for a saner life.
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Like Mr. Trump's Make America Great Again slogan today, Mr. Putin's version of making Russia great again wasn't particularly ideological, but its gauzy patriotic nationalism basically summed up the Putin plan for making a weakened and demoralized superpower feel better about itself.
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Wearing his Army uniform, General McMaster spoke to a group that has been rattled and deeply demoralized after weeks of upheaval, following a haphazard transition from the Obama administration and amid the questions about links to Russia, which swiftly engulfed Mr. Flynn.
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But the Afghan military's routing of the Taliban two weeks ago from Khwaja Umari, a district about 10 miles from Ghazni City, capped a rare period of relatively good news for a military demoralized by years of high casualties and territorial loss.
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Both Ryan and Pelosi called, emailed and met with their colleagues to make their pitches on why they should lead a demoralized caucus, which is still searching for a strategy for dealing with President-elect Trump and a strengthened Republican-led Congress next year.
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All those demographics are important outside of sex work as well as in sex work to give your money to because these are the groups of people who are consistently demoralized in society… There's incredible racism that pervades our society, our media, and our culture.
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Cox said members of the groups love to see -- and participate in -- "visibility efforts," which provide a psychological boost in an area where Democrats have long felt demoralized, and particularly for working mothers who don't have time to phone bank or canvass for candidates.
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Recounting how the McCarrick scandal has demoralized seminarians and priests alike, Berg said the church needs to ensure that men with same-sex attraction simply don&apost enter seminaries — a position recently reinforced by Francis in reference to both the Chilean and Italian churches.
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By Andrew Cawthorne and Andreina Aponte CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's presidential election race has begun with favorite and incumbent Nicolas Maduro signaling a nationalist, "anti-Trump" campaign while his demoralized foes scramble to find a viable candidate for a vote they predict will be unfair.
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The government can also make concessions on Sunni political demands—more jurisdictional autonomy, equal application of de-Baathification laws, release of prisoners—and devote more money to salaries, weapons, and supplies for those local fighters fighting IS who have been demoralized by Baghdad's distrust.
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Even if it took Stannis Baratheon's sneak attack to defeat the Wildlings for good in the following episode — a fate he'd suffer in turn when Ramsay and Roose Bolton overran his demoralized forces outside Winterfell the following season — this was a fight worth remembering.
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The question, of course, is whether the Twins have been demoralized by their dismal performances in the Bronx and whether playing at home for Games 3 and 4, if necessary, will be enough of a boost to force a fifth game in New York.
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" In the 1950s, men felt weakened and demoralized by the women who grew empowered while they were away fighting World War II. He cites many articles from the period, including a 1958 essay in Esquire that Arthur Schlesinger Jr. wrote called "The Crisis of American Masculinity.
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Yet another victory for progressives: an anti-abortion nominee bites the dust, the Supreme Court avoids the stain of another member with a history of exploiting women, and victims of sexual assault needn't be demoralized by yet another example of the system looking the other way.
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Though there do not appear to be any major revelations, the materials provide a glimpse of Bin Laden's thinking and his struggle to keep Al Qaeda's main branch and its offshoots in line as American drones killed the group's senior leaders and demoralized its foot soldiers.
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The idea — dubbed the "Ferguson effect" after the Ferguson, Missouri, protests that elevated the nationwide Black Lives Matter movement — is that the protests have demoralized police officers, leading them to back off from proactive policing, while emboldening criminals, who now see the police as more vulnerable.
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While Mr. Kelly has quickly brought some order to a disorganized and demoralized staff, he is fully aware of the president's volcanic resentment about being managed, according to a dozen people close to Mr. Trump, and has treaded gingerly through the minefield of Mr. Trump's psyche.
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"His Facebook messages were made privately between colleagues and friends who shared the reality of being police officers in today's culture where police are demonized and demoralized for doing what is required to keep the community safe," Burns said in an email, according to the newspaper.
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Both witnesses detailed several efforts to convince Pompeo and other political appointees to release statements supporting Yovanovitch as she came under attack from Trump and his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani — but those efforts hit a brick wall, leaving diplomats and other senior officials demoralized and frustrated.
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Viewed as the walled-off leader of a demoralized department, Tillerson in the opening days of the Trump administration was cast as an inexperienced statesman undercut by the White House as the nation's top diplomat, supplanted in that role by the president's powerful son-in-law.
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If people who planted John McCain and Mitt Romney signs in their yards before supporting Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio in the primaries hear from their party's former champions that Trump is a disaster, they are very likely to be demoralized and not bother to vote.
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We must demand that policymakers in Washington begin unraveling the policies that have shackled generations of young Americans by supporting criminal justice reforms such as the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act, and start peeling back layers of policy that have criminalized and demoralized our communities for too long.
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Gigi Ibrahim, who explained the aims of the uprising to The New York Times via Skype during the first week of the 2011 revolution, shared video of the first night of protests, along with bitter reflections on the state of the demoralized opposition to President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
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Based on the books by Margaret and H.A. Rey, and with a script by Jeremy Desmon and music by John Kavanaugh, the show follows Curious George as he tries to help his friend Chef Pisghetti, a maker of wonderful meatballs who has become demoralized by some high-tech competition.
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Smith made six 3-pointers in the first half — the Cavaliers knocked down seven straight during one dizzying stretch — as Cleveland built a 38-point lead over the stunned Hawks, who will head home for Friday's Game 3 down, two games to none, in the series and utterly demoralized.
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Her calculation is that she will be dealing with a Republican Party that is deeply fractured and demoralized after the defeat of Mr. Trump, whose leaders will be searching for ways to show they can govern and to court Hispanics if Mr. Trump loses badly with them. Mrs.
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Letters To the Editor: "Chaos Theory in Oval Office Is Taking Its Toll" (front page, March 2) describes a feckless, thin-skinned, petulant, impulsive and paranoid president and a demoralized White House in free fall, with the president at war with his own advisers, cabinet members and staff.
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But Trump's election pushed him into the limelight: By last spring, the president had already burned through his traditional foreign policy advisers (Tillerson, McMaster, Mattis) and alienated his more bellicose ones (Bannon, Bolton); the remaining staff on the National Security Council were demoralized, their ranks thinned in successive purges.
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The democratic experiment in Afghanistan, which began in 2004, when Hamid Karzai was elected President, has demoralized many citizens, who have watched brutal strongmen be rewarded with cabinet postings, age-old patronage networks mobilized on behalf of party politics, and elected officials enrich themselves through cronyism and corruption.
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Demoralized and mostly silenced for years by official harassment and a barrage of propaganda on state-controlled media that portrayed them as traitors, opponents of Mr. Putin have again found their voice in recent months with an unusual series of modest but, for the Kremlin, unnerving street protests.
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And together with its center-right partner in crime, Reagan-Thatcher libertarianism, this liberalism's policy choices — economic and social permissiveness, effectively conjoined — created a new class divide, between thriving meritocratic hubs and a declining and demoralized heartland, that explains both the frequency of populist irruptions and their consistent futility.
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Similarly, Senate Democrats' 2018 prospects in states that Mr. Trump won will depend more on whether he's seen as succeeding — on how energized or demoralized the ends of the polarized electorate are — than on whether a given senator found an issue or two of common ground with him.
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United States military and counterterrorism officials have never forgotten where that detour into darkness led — unreliable intelligence, demoralized interrogators, terrorists who still cannot be tried in a court of law because they were tortured and a stench that still clings to America's counterterrorism reputation these many years later.
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Critics of the U.B.I. argue that handing people cash, instead of targeted aid (like food stamps), means that much of the money will be wasted, and that a basic income will take away the incentive to work, lowering G.D.P. and giving us a nation of lazy, demoralized people.
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The reality today is that our government suffers from a shockingly low number of young employees, a talent crisis that will deepen because of the fallout from the 35-day partial shutdown that upended critical work by many federal agencies, and left 800,000 employees demoralized and without a paycheck.
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In fact, the situation under Rouhani has deteriorated so significantly that many demoralized Iranians publicly declared their commitment to sitting out the parliamentary elections that took place earlier this year to elect the Assembly of Experts, the clerical body that will be responsible for choosing the successor to Supreme Leader Khamenei.
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Party leaders celebrated Mr. Balderson's win, but the nail-biting result — and the prospect of repeating the race so soon — amplified Republican anxieties about the midterm elections, when they must contend with demoralized centrist Republicans, popular unease with the Trump administration and energized Democrats eager to retake control of the House.
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There will be no corks popped at Lyft's San Francisco headquarters over the sudden, stunning downfall of Travis Kalanick, Uber's truculent former chief executive, and no giddy high fives will be exchanged over the chain of scandalous events that have demoralized Uber's staff, shredded its executive ranks and damaged its reputation.
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Ms. Lau, who slept in the streets of central Hong Kong for a few weeks in 2014 as part of the Occupy movement, said the removal of four pro-democracy lawmakers from office in July had so angered and demoralized people she knew that some were thinking of leaving the city.
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Demoralized and divided since the post-2011 election protests, which fizzled amid a wave of arrests, Russia's opposition has struggled to make its voice heard over a din of pro-government sentiment on state-controlled television, which invariably presents opponents of Mr. Putin as traitors in cahoots with the West.
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Dabadie said he had last spoken to Jackson, whose son turned 20083 months old on Monday, a few days ago when he had gone to boost the morale of the badly demoralized department that has been heavily criticized after the Sterling killing, Instead, Jackson ended up giving him a pep talk, Dabadie said.
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Should Ossoff win—either by clearing 50 percent in the first round of voting on April 18, when nearly 503 candidates face off, or winning the expected June 20 runoff—there's no question his victory would be a rare ray of hope for a demoralized minority party in dire need of young talent.
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Their school has a policy in which students don't discuss which college they're going to, so as not to make anyone feel left out or demoralized, which is why it takes until the day before graduation for the girls to find out that while they're both very smart, they haven't been very savvy.
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I genuinely don't know what's better for Clinton: facing Trump in a 1964/1972-style race where the party establishment doesn't have his back, or enjoying a summer of Republican chaos until a compromise candidate is chosen at the RNC and the Trump voters become demoralized and stay home in the general.
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If you base a society on a conception of self that is about achievement, not character, you will wind up with a society that is demoralized; that puts little emphasis on the sorts of moral systems that create harmony within people, harmony between people and harmony between people and their ultimate purpose.
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By contrast, campaigns understate both the power and the difficulty of leading the world's most powerful and consequential bureaucracy, and the next president will face a particularly hard version of that job, as Donald Trump has driven out a tremendous amount of civil service talent and demoralized many of those who remain.
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His task now will be to take over a rattled and demoralized National Security Council apparatus that bristled at Mr. Flynn's leadership and remains uncertain about its place in the White House given the foreign policy interests of Stephen K. Bannon, the former Breitbart News chairman who is the president's chief strategist.
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INGRAHAM: I had over the years interviewed so many border patrol agents and customs agents who were so demoralized because they want to do their job and they felt like, I&aposm not trying to get political here, but under the previous administration they were kind of being held back, or even sometimes vilified unfairly.
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You consider replying with a list of all the deeply unerotic ways in which that job, where no one ever made a pass at you, drained and demoralized you—the derisory pay you were expected to be grateful for, the obligation to exploit those paid still less, the fuzzy boundary between professional and social expectations.
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Adam is a lonely, sullen kid, home-schooled (he and his only friend were kicked out of their private school after setting fire to a trash can) by his sad, earnest stage mother, Giselle, a divorcée who lavishes upon the miserable little musical far more mental vigor than the demoralized director and cast do.
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Unable to dismiss these protests as "bad" or "skewed" polling, Trump's own Baghdad Bob took a different approach: "A lot of these people were there to protest an issue of concern to them and not against anything," claimed Spicer, working hard to pretend the protests had nothing to do with his petulant, demoralized boss.
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So when I got the chance to talk with Kendrick, Cannon and Shannon by video just days after Georgia's controversially elected governor, Brian Kemp, signed the state's new abortion restriction into law, I expected to find them depleted, demoralized, and downright depressed from laying it all on the line and then suffering such a major loss.
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One year after hackers leaked a cache of stolen DNC emails — a cyberattack that revealed an unfair bias against Bernie Sanders, led to the resignation of former party chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, and made the party a source of fierce dissatisfaction and distrust among progressives — Krikorian took the helm of a team still "demoralized" by the ordeal.
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Mr. Trump's string of inflammatory statements in the weeks since his nominating convention last month has sent him tumbling in nearly every state with a contested Senate race, raising Republican fears that their own demoralized voters will not show up to vote, independents will abandon the entire Republican ticket and energized Democrats will flock to the polls.
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Certainly there were other groups in the young United States who lived in abject poverty and whose existence was terrible, but it is inappropriate to attempt an equivalence between the life of a poor white man and the reality of an African slave, who was roundly dehumanized and demoralized for the benefit of white upper and middle class society.
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Smith, who advanced to the general election by finishing in the top-two of the March 3 primary for California's 25th District, hopes that her diehard supporters will be able to continue to contact prospective voters from their homes, even if many are demoralized by the fact that they wouldn't be knocking on doors for the foreseeable future.
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By plucking the highest achievers from all over the country and encouraging them to cluster together in the same few cities, it robs localities of their potential leaders — so that instead of an Eastern establishment negotiating with overlapping groups of regional elites (or with working-class or ethnic leaders), you have a mass upper class segregated from demoralized peripheries.
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The latest development -- a second woman, Meredith Watson, accusing Fairfax of rape Friday afternoon -- capped an extraordinary week where the fortunes of Democrats' top three elected officials in Virginia ebbed and flowed as demoralized party operatives, enraged elected officials and dumbfounded state legislators attempted to make sense of how their once-prosperous party was now in a smoldering heap.
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We on the left — perhaps liberals, too — are so used to being defeated, demoralized, and depressed, so used to losing to the right, that we have little sense that the right can suffer the same Then it was the Tea Party, which, despite the exaggerated assertions of its defenders and critics, has seen an even shorter time in the sun.
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Tim KaineTimothy (Tim) Michael KaineA lesson of the Trump, Tlaib, Omar, Netanyahu affair Warren's pledge to avoid first nuclear strike sparks intense pushback Almost three-quarters say minimum age to buy tobacco should be 2628: Gallup MORE (D-Va.) said that employees who work in the U.S. intelligence community and live in his state are "very demoralized" by the president's performance in Helsinki.
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ESPN fantasy ownership: 2.3%Week 11 stats: 209 passing yards, two passing touchdowns, one rushing touchdown — 27.5 fantasy pointsOne thing to know: If your quarterback is on a bye for Week 12 of the season, Jeff Driskel is a solid boom-or-bust play in a must-win scenario, facing a Washington defense that has looked somewhat demoralized in recent weeks.
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In an appropriate denouement to a Congress plagued by dysfunction — much of it at the hands of the president — demoralized Republicans about to lose their House majority were unsure until the last moment that they could even pass the wall funding measure, given how many of their defeated and retiring members have neglected to show up for votes in recent days.
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Gold replied by email: When Trump recognized the plight of the individuals who had lost their jobs in the rust belt and made a big point about it to the whole nation, I feel that this was likely to raise the morale of many people in the Midwest who were depressed or demoralized, which is a great risk factor for depression.
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The callous, ethically challenged Josef, whose sex addiction and infidelity killed his marriage, faces bankruptcy if a big business deal falls through; his sister, Charlie, lives in Los Angeles, where she works for a tantrum-prone movie star and pops antidepressants like Tic Tacs; and the sensitive Armie ("unmarried, unfocused, demoralized, penniless") still lives at home in his parents' basement.
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While Wells Fargo's finances are fundamentally sound, the bank faces a daunting list of problems: litigation, with hundreds of millions of dollars on the line; more than a dozen restrictions imposed by federal regulators; a largely demoralized work force that is chafing under the bank's leadership; and rigorous scrutiny of the bank's next leader from high-profile members of Congress.
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From this bizarre American election campaign to the pulverized wreckage of a pro-democracy movement in Syria; from the increasingly bloated jails in Egypt to the disappearing free press in Turkey; from the remnants of a demoralized opposition in Russia to the never ending re-election of some African presidents, there is ample evidence of the tough times this much-vaunted system of government is facing.
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A decade later, as the third saga would have it, Nikita Khrushchev had Shostakovich browbeaten into joining the Soviet Communist Party so that he could serve as titular head of the Russian Federation's Union of Soviet Composers, after which the composer was supposedly so demoralized and filled with shame that he wrote a string quartet about it: his Eighth, often regarded as his masterpiece.
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The fragile edifice of the caucuses, which demoralized Democrats in search of a strong nominee to take on President Trump, crumbled under the weight of technology flops, lapses in planning, failed oversight by party officials, poor training, and a breakdown in communication between paid party leaders and volunteers out in the field, who had devoted themselves for months to the nation's first nominating contest.
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He explored a run for the presidency in 1980 but did not return to public life until 1983, when President Reagan asked him to take over the troubled E.P.A. After 22 months under Anne Gorsuch Burford, who had resigned in a scandal over mismanagement of a $1.6 billion program to clean up hazardous waste sites, the agency was demoralized and its programs riddled with corruption.
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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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So you can see how some people can become so demoralized that instead of demanding change from these seemingly untouchable powers, like the corporations that move somewhere else or the government that is now no longer your neighbor of a neighbor, you start blaming it on these dual-earner families and these middle-income families and these uppity women and these men who don't know how to do a hard day's labor.
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Three of Costa's colleagues at the Post reported that Trump's "anger began to build" as he watched TV reports comparing his inauguration attendance to Saturday's larger Women's March: Trump has been resentful, even furious, at what he views as the media's failure to reflect the magnitude of his achievements, and he feels demoralized that the public's perception of his presidency so far does not necessarily align with his own sense of accomplishment.
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In contrast to the image of a demoralized and disempowered State Department workforce described in some press accounts, thousands of U.S. foreign service officers at nearly 300 U.S. embassies and consulates across the globe do their best to ignore childish tweets emanating from the White House and continue the work of engaging with foreign counterparts, administering exchange programs, issuing visas, promoting U.S. business interests, implementing foreign aid mechanisms, and assisting U.S. citizens living overseas.
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Unfortunately, under the present administration, the DOJ has become a demoralized and dysfunctional place, due to what I believe is a lack of honesty and integrity of Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE and the contempt shown to the nonpartisan lawyers of the department by an arrogant, self-centered, and possibly corrupt president.
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Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE, on an appearance on the "Fox & Friends" morning show, said the Justice Department is "sending in additional gun investigators" to Chicago and that he has urged the U.S. attorney's office to prosecute gun cases aggressively; adding "The police have been demoralized in many ways," he said.
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