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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A few hundred yards away at Conservative Central Office the mood has been more subdued, though not defeatist .
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In my view, then, it was rather defeatist from a vocational standpoint to adopt a stance like Mr Graham's.
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It is difficult to understand why the Democratic leadership should have been quite so defeatist in 1981.
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That is what we seek to do, rather than adopting a defeatist attitude to the delivery of health care.
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Those who belittle the value of new integrative speculation are, in a phrase of Bennett's, dogmatically defeatist .
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What a sceptical or defeatist system needs is motivation.
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Yet it would be wrong to end this chapter on a defeatist note.