demoralise

• “Last November it was reported that the Taliban were planning to make much more extensive use of mines, to "demoralise" Nato forces in Afghanistan.”

  Avoidable and Culpable Deaths

• “Dumb though half the kids may be, they're just plodding meat fodder for a shockingly arrogant TV experiment, which exists for no apparent reason other than to demoralise any genuine teachers watching, potentially to the point of suicide, which really would cause a crisis in our educational system.”

  The Guardian: Charlie Brooker: Jamie's Dream School – a youth club with David Starkey instead of a pool table

• “Had the planes left their base before notification of surrender came through or was the attack simply to completely demoralise us thereby make us easy to handle?”

  Thomas Hawksworth

• “It was on his and Bushes watch that 9-11 happened and he did about as much as anyone to discredit and demoralise the CIA during the lead up to Iraq, so where he has the nerve to come out and criticise Obama is beyond me.”

  Cheney: Obama pretending we are not at war

• “They occupy the land and the women, they demoralise and colonise.”

  Rape, murder and general violence in ‘peaceful’ military occupations « Womanvsfeminist’s Blog

• “Rather than motivate the new workforce, ministers did everything to demoralise and demotivate them.”

  The Guardian: 'Civil service reform is badly needed – but this is like slow poisoning'

• “Despite Blair's optimistic nature, cumulatively the attacks must demoralise him, and his police security detail remains high.”

  The Guardian: Tony Blair's donation: guilt, piety ? or both?

• “It's chicken feed compared to other fields, but so as to look "fair" cuts are made that will devastate and demoralise for a generation.”

  The Huffington Post: Johann Hari: Stephen Fry, British Polymath: A Twinterview

• “Mules are used frequently in these parts to transport trekkers gear and food supplies and served to fully demoralise us throughout our trek by capably lugging 100kg of gear on tortuous paths that left us wheezing for breath.”

  The Huffington Post: Ben Colclough: The Atlas Mountains -- Berbers, Mules and Peaks in Morocco

• “After three or four drafts the only reason a script goes on being rewritten is if the goal posts are being moved, which will demoralise and destroy a writer while exhausting the script editor.”

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