A number of French communists ( including Maurice Thorez, who fled to Moscow ), deserted from the French Army, owing to a ' revolutionary defeatist ' attitude taken by Western Communist leaders.

In 1940, Colonel Ruge was promoted to Major General and assumed command after the former C-in-C, Generalmajor Kristian Laake, who was supposed to go into retirement a few days after the German attack on Norway, displayed a defeatist attitude and consequently was relieved of command.

When Hitler was notified of Ziegler ’ s “ defeatist ” attitude, he ordered his arrest.

His attitude of mind, as always, was constructive and never defeatist.

Both in poetry and life, he lives as a sentimental anarchist and tired defeatist who remembered sorrowfully the relics of his youth, now in his eyes discarded, bloodied, and spat upon.

He installed the apprehensive, defeatist Conrad as the protagonist, easing his fears, only to have them ultimately confirmed, and he presented the Martians as a human-like superior race whose apparent benevolence would make their climactic treachery seem even more shocking ; as well as decrease the budget that would have been expended on costumes and makeup.

A more Jamesian example: a swain, convinced that the fair maiden must love him, may prove more effective in his wooing than he would had his initial prophecy been defeatist.

He believed the Dolchstosslegende explained the German Army's defeat in 1918 — that Germany had been destroyed by defeatist elements on the home front.

Des Lynam is portrayed as the disgruntled and defeatist presenter, who seems constantly in conflict with the show which he takes every opportunity to devalue (' OK, so Dave is the best at making a word out of Strobcats ..').

His time travel occurs at desperate times in his life ; he re-lives events past and future, and becomes fatalistic ( though not a defeatist ) because he has seen when, how, and why he will die.

Sherman's capture of Atlanta in September and David Farragut's capture of Mobile ended defeatist jitters ; the Democratic Party was deeply split, with some leaders and most soldiers openly for Lincoln.

Yet while seemingly defeatist in tone, the humanity of the characters shines through in their persistence despite the obstacles.

Roth's work claimed that most Jews involved in the war were only taking part as profiteers and spies, whilst he also blamed Jewish officers on fostering a defeatist mentality which impacted negatively on their soldiers.

Throughout 1917, Bolsheviks spread defeatist and revolutionary propaganda, called to overthrow the Provisional Government and end the war.

He often voiced defeatist opinions in KMT staff meetings, and continued to express his view that Western imperialism was the greater danger to China, much to the chagrin of his associates.

Others hold a more critical view of Gort ’ s leadership in 1940, seeing his decision not to join the French in organising a large scale counter-attack as defeatist.

‘ Midge-at-the-Mike ’, broadcast from March to late fall 1943, in which she played American songs interspersed with defeatist propaganda, anti-Semitic rhetoric and attacks on Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The Reichsmarschall called the report the " rantings of a worn-out defeatist ", and gave Galland an " order ", that no Allied fighters had crossed into Germany.

It is claimed that the book is a tribute to the Finnish men in World War II: anti-war without being defeatist.

As such, when Wentworth had Northumberland appointed general of the English forces during the second of the Bishops ' Wars in January 1640, Northumberland was happy to let illness prevent him from joining the army in the field, and Northumberland was entirely defeatist about the prospect of defeating the Covenanters militarily.

The I-CL disagreed with this view and took a dual defeatist position on the war on the grounds that Argentina was not a semi-colony of imperialism, and also called for self determination for the Falkland Islanders.

Calling the overwhelming bipartisan vote the end of a defeatist " Vietnam type mentality toward the war on drugs ", Shaw solidified his standing as a leader in the War on Drugs.

The term is commonly used in the politics and especially in the context of war to denote treason: a soldier can be a defeatist if he or she refuses to fight because he or she thinks that the fight will be lost for sure or that it is not worth fighting for some other reason.

At the convention, Begin's proposal to send children abroad for security reasons, although there were precedent for such a measure, sounded defeatist and was unanimously rejected.

Elements in the Norwegian cabinet considered General Laake to be a defeatist.

Other contributions included two essays by George Orwell, " Fascism and Democracy " and " Patriots and Revolutionaries " that condemned the Communist Party of Great Britain for backing the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact of 1939 and for taking a revolutionary defeatist position in the war against Nazi Germany.

Gay consciousness and all the rest are separatist and defeatist attitudes going back to centuries-old and out-moded conceptions that homosexuals are, indeed, different from other people.

Thomas's principal influence lay in the communication of an attitude -- that of the now extinct British romantic school of the New Apocalypse -- Henry Treece, J. F. Hendry, and others -- all of whom were quite conventional poets.

" Andreas Andreopoulos cites the 1910 Catholic Encyclopedia article by Fortescue as an example of how Barlaam's distrustful and hostile attitude regarding hesychasm survived until recently in the West, adding that now " the Western world has started to rediscover what amounts to a lost tradition.

The executive council, which had been appointed by the Potchefstroom assembly, with Pretorius as president, now took up a bolder attitude: they deposed Schoeman from all authority, declared Zoutpansberg in a state of blockade, and denounced the Boers of the two northern districts as rebels.

Modality expresses the speaker's attitude toward the action or state given by the verb, especially with regard to degree of necessity, obligation, or permission (" You must go ", " You should go ", " You may go "), determination or willingness (" I will do this no matter what "), degree of probability (" It must be raining by now ", " It may be raining ", " It might be raining "), or ability (" I can speak French ").

This attitude incurred the enmity of the opponents of the Interim, especially after he cancelled a number of passages in the second edition of his Psalterium in which he had violently attacked the position of Maurice, Elector of Saxony, whom he now requested to prohibit all polemical treatises proceeding from Magdeburg, while he condemned the preachers of Torgau who were imprisoned in Wittenberg on account of their opposition to the Interim.

As proof of this changing attitude, gynaecologists are now eligible for fellowship in both the American College of Surgeons and Royal Colleges of Surgeons, and many newer surgical textbooks include chapters on ( at least basic ) gynaecological surgery.

His appearance and attitude impressed McLaren and Lydon, now dubbed " Johnny Rotten ", was brought in to audition as a new frontman.

The Dictionary of National Biography reports that she now came to feel that her attitude to life had been unduly rebellious, and she sought, during the days that remained to her, to renew and compose her spiritual life.

The first casualty of the band's collective change of attitude was bassist Derek Forbes, who had always been one of the strongest personalities within Simple Minds, and was now beginning to squabble with Kerr.

Tackling this problem at its roots is all but simple, with a lack of success despite many plans, so that a blind " law-and-order " attitude is now common in French internal politics, with few effective results and violent symptoms.

Her attitude is now more grounded in reality ; she has become more like street-wise Angel.

His dismissive attitude, " gave some readers a way to see that there need be no clash between construction and reality ," inasmuch as " the metaphor of social construction once had excellent shock value, but now it has become tired.

He was now opposed to the whole policy of the opposition, and, being reproached by John Hampden with his change of attitude, replied " that he had formerly been persuaded by that worthy gentleman to believe many things which he had since found to be untrue, and therefore he had changed his opinion in many particulars as well as to things as to persons ".

Saying " And Kanye, you a sucker nigga / Dissed Dame, so my attitude is " fuck a nigga " / Sucka Jigga how you gone live with that / Took ya beat now come get it back ".

In 1760, Oliver Goldsmith says, " Painting is now become the sole object of fashionable care ; the title of connoisseur in that art is at present the safest passport into every fashionable Society ; a well timed shrug, an admiring attitude and one or two exotic tones of exclamation are sufficient qualifications for men of low circumstances to curry favour.

Still, the city continued to show a hostile attitude toward approving a lease on any additional land that the Naval Reserve now required.

After his accession in England, his peaceful and scholarly attitude contrasted strikingly with the bellicose and flirtatious behaviour of Elizabeth, as indicated by the contemporary epigram Rex fuit Elizabeth, nunc est regina Jacobus ( Elizabeth was King, now James is Queen ).

The use of the label " Celtic fringe " as applied to non-English, or traditionally non-English-speaking, territories to marginalise these cultures is now analysed as a colonial attitude, and literatures of Ireland, Scotland and Wales may be studied through the methodology of postcolonialism.

This stance is now maintained only by the small Republican Sinn Féin party, though Sinn Féin itself still at certain times takes an ambivalent attitude towards recognising the legitimacy of the State.

When quizzed by Abbot, he explained that the project was now entirely in the hands of the Trust-also that their decisions were partly dependent on " the attitude of the Government towards the gift ".

The increasingly agitated mob now adopted a common attitude which was later described as " insulting, menacing, and provocative ", prompting about 130 police reinforcements, supported by four Saracen armored cars to be rushed in.

: Our policies have also been influenced by the cavalier attitude of the present government with regard to how its spends the taxpayer's dollar, its contempt for the nation's ever increasing national debt and its inability to address the rising unemployment that is eroding the foundations of Canadian society and which is now impacting negatively on Canadians from all walks of life.

It is now run by husband and wife team Beej and Beth Parmar, who describe it as “ a real pub with a warm welcome, a down-to-earth attitude, excellent customer service and quality food and beer -– in a relaxed atmosphere .”

Many now consider the work to carry a much more reflective attitude, one which looks at Russian history as a whole from the standpoint of 1957, four years after the death of Joseph Stalin.