An aging and dispirited workforce cannot continue under the stress much longer. |
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He reached the edge of the penalty area and the dispirited Croatia defence opened up for him. |
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As Argentina's presidential election approaches, many dispirited voters are planning on turning in blank ballots or not voting at all. |
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But Pietro is too lost in his own daydreams and dispirited behavior to pay attention to his studies. |
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Famine and disease had ravished and dispirited the people and emigration had drained the land of most of its youth. |
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Like McCain, I'm not dispirited by the notion that Congress will have to revisit the issue every few years. |
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Behind in races, he would find himself becoming dispirited and not fighting as hard as he should. |
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Anyway, I was quite dispirited at only receiving four calls in total from this ad. |
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Finn and Larkins started to walk away from the bench that seated the 3 dispirited boys, all of whom were sighing with misery and woe. |
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An outsider could immediately sense the dispirited pessimism that overtook Azariya. |
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Thirdly, why we should perhaps not be too dispirited and demoralised about public life. |
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I even invited her to the mall, and I was dispirited when she turned me down. |
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It is a short step to lording it over your dispirited, lonely and inevitably disappointed wife, and your deracinated offspring. |
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He came to Devizes in 1989 to take over a rather dispirited congregation, which had suffered from constant changes in clergy over a short period. |
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Demoralising idleness and the humiliation of charity or relief work left the unemployed dispirited, apathetic, or divided. |
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The cast members are illiterate, dispirited convicts with a leading lady who is about to be hanged. |
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Activists who have fought land rights battles inspired by the Constitution are a weary, dispirited lot. |
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On an island in the middle of the pond, cormorants hunch like dispirited monks. |
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Kildare were a dispirited bunch but it was to get much worse before a late rally put a little respectability on the final scoreline. |
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It was all too easy for a lonely and dispirited person to become a grog artist. |
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Trojans put their recent woes behind them as they brushed aside a dispirited Beckwithshaw side. |
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This was a blow from which the already dispirited Newman never fully recovered. |
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He was a dispirited man, on the brink of destruction by the abrasive world of society and business. |
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He took a broken and dispirited fleet and turned it quickly into the force that would win the Pacific theater. |
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I realized how our leadership brings forth mediocre organizations and dispirited people. |
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The bosses of the leather-curing establishments he met were by and large a dispirited lot. |
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Any bars that are still left standing have dispirited serving girls. |
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If anyone feels too dispirited to vote, too alienated or whatever, they should drag themselves along to the polling booth and spoil their ballot paper. |
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They looked dispirited as they trudged off for half-time cuppas but they had a rejuvenated look on the restart and took just seven minutes to draw level. |
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Some dispirited broadcasters left radio and television altogether. |
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Democrats are more dispirited today than they have been in years. |
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Never have I seen enviros so dispirited or in such disarray. |
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The dispirited English besiegers were faced by a foe newly invigorated with the spiritual ardour of a divine messenger. |
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Generally, although Rex gets the results, he often steamrolls his way through discussions, leaving his direct reports frustrated and dispirited. |
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Finding themselves isolated in this difficult, foggy climate, many of them grew dispirited and took refuge in alcohol. |
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They are often far away from family and home community, and become dispirited. |
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Métis people entered the twentieth century uprooted, fragmented and dispirited. |
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We have a rather dispirited group of people where history has passed them by. |
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In 1984 the Branch was dispirited from dealing with continuing resource cuts in the face of increasing workloads. |
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It is also an approach which appeals to the weary and dispirited, as it can be accomplished with lesser effort and lesser engagement. |
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Even as Colonial Secretary in 1966, he was so dispirited that he failed to master his brief and was quickly removed. |
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Moreover, the turnout among Republicans was lower than in 2008, itself a year in which the party was rather dispirited. |
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And while seemingly well adjusted, Ruben too is dispirited, trading on the bodies and brainlessness of his fighters for a few dollars and the dream of the big time. |
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Handed a dispirited, defeated force, he instilled into it the will to win. |
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She never looked dejected or dispirited, though she had all the reason. |
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I take objection to being grouped in with the dispirited parents. |
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Most of the children are dispirited because of some adolescent problem. |
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The ragged and dispirited Americans made camp at Valley Forge. |
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He is understandably dispirited by the accession of the new pontiff, but expresses his concerns in language that seems to me overwrought and misplaced. |
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A 21-year-old secretary related how she lined up for several hours, but became dispirited watching young girls argue furiously with elderly women over queue-jumping. |
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Only two years ago, with awful economic numbers and a dispirited opposition, he was riding high. |
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While fans of snubbed teams will be furious, or dispirited, or both, Wellman will crush in the aftermath of Tourney selection. |
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Such efforts have reenergized a movement that seemed, until recently, to be dispirited. |
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He never saw anyone abuse prisoners, whom he describes as a dispirited lot for the most part. |
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That alone was easily enough to overwhelm their depleted and dispirited numbers, but the army outside also numbered several battalions of foot soldiers. |
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In doing so they have energized a dispirited PWA movement with the dignity of self-assertion, and renewed within it the faith that by action we can secure justice. |
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He admits to being slightly dispirited, in the beginning, about the decline of traditional methods which he had learned but buying an Epson 7800 printer became an eye-opener for him. |
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It is tragic that so many people fail to take advantage of the service offered them, and continue through the years weakened and dispirited and only half alive. |
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On a sunny stone near a foresty bed of asparagus I sat down at last, tired, and a little dispirited. |
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Its divided, dispirited managers also need decisive leadership. |
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By the time people with disabilities reach the Appeal Tribunals, they are often dispirited, lacking in self-esteem and harboring feelings of both helplessness and uselessness. |
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They were so tired and worn out and dispirited that there was nothing to be done till they had some rest, so I asked them all to lie down for half an hour whilst I should enter everything up to the moment. |
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They believed in communism but were dispirited at the uniformity of goods that Soviet shops had available and would rush to get their hands on anything imported if the slightest opportunity arose. |
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I am dispirited to read this magazine this week where an unelected, unaccountable member of a wealthy elite is giving out about the unelected elite in Brussels. |
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Some referred to his plan to retake Quebec in the early spring of 1760 as 'Lévis's folly', but the project gave the dispirited men something to struggle for. |
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But manned space flight in America is now in mothballs, and in these dispirited times even the pride visitors take in the dam is mingled with wistfulness. |
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I have visited it a number of times, and every time I have been dispirited by the simple lack of willingness to get to grips with the substantial problems there. |
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I heard later that he had been dispirited by my visit. |
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The principal objective of any dictatorship is to atomize its society, keeping individuals locked — alone and dispirited — in its system of oppression. |
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Cameras panning to American fans showed dispirited faces, furrowed brows. |
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He was indefatigable, never seemed dispirited, and his friendly, folksy off-the-cuff style resonated. |
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Asquith dispirited his supporters by stating in Parliament that he had neither asked for nor received a commitment from King Edward to create peers. |
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I have felt languid and dispirited, during almost my whole residence. |
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