And he is certainly not a defeatist.

But that is a dangerous, defeatist belief.

The problem is a defeatist attitude, not scholarship.

Shouldn t they and others be celebrating this major success instead of becoming bogged down in defeatist talk of crisis and stalemate?

Israel s annexationist right would dismiss its defeatist detractors with the claim that the entire Zionist enterprise was an unrealistic dream that miraculously came true.

But I also think that the phenomenal success of Swensen and others like him reflects the environment that Kiyosaki criticizes. The problem is a defeatist attitude, not scholarship.

He accused the British of being defeatist and argued that Afghanistan s deteriorating security situation could be addressed with an Iraq style surge, which has undoubtedly brought down violence levels in that country.

To say that, over time, other bodies, such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization and the specialized agencies, have usurped the powers and role of the Economic and Social Council is a defeatist attitude.

They were denied their fundamental right to self determination and also had to cope with the extremely precarious material and moral conditions found in any refugee camp. However, far from adopting a defeatist attitude, the Saharan people, being convinced of the rightness of their cause and the legitimacy of their struggle, had achieved in the camps what they had not achieved in Western Sahara.