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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
demotivate .
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Examples
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And how much of a role does a social context that "demotivates" young people play in this picture?
Disaffected youth Daniel Little 2009
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And how much of a role does a social context that "demotivates" young people play in this picture?
Archive 2009-02-01 Daniel Little 2009
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If their lordships wanted to support the idea that handing out bread and fish is bad for people because it demotivates them from doing their own baking and fishing, they'd really have to leave the pulpit and get a job on a tabloid.
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"It also demoralises (in every sense), demotivates and discombobulates non-Muslim Brits so that they are quite unable to grasp that they are under attack from religious fanaticism".
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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It also demoralises (in every sense), demotivates and discombobulates non-Muslim Brits so that they are quite unable to grasp that they are under attack from religious fanaticism; instead they turn on their own side (America, Israel) and create a climate of anti-war defeatism and appeasement.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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It also demoralises (in every sense), demotivates and discombobulates non-Muslim Brits so that they are quite unable to grasp that they are under attack from religious fanaticism; instead they turn on their own side (America, Israel) and create a climate of anti-war defeatism and appeasement.
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It also demoralises (in every sense), demotivates and discombobulates non-Muslim Brits so that they are quite unable to grasp that they are under attack from religious fanaticism; instead they turn on their own side (America, Israel) and create a climate of anti-war defeatism and appeasement.
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I think the concept that more than one can win a game demotivates some from trying to win at all, even if the game is designed so that not everyone can win.
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This impairs profitability, driving away investors and submerging the stock price at precisely the time the company needs a healthy acquisition currency; this demotivates your great people by surrounding them by too many mediocre people and too much bureaucracy; and this slows everything in your company to a crawl because there are simply too many people running around who have to talk about everything before anything gets done.
Marc Andreessen: The Pmarca Guide to Big Companies, part 1: Turnaround! 2008
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Noting that some protesting students were under-performers who did not qualify for bursaries or object to being refused to register for a subject they have failed twice, she said: "This behaviour disrupts the quality of education and demotivates academics."
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