There was a general demoralization of the people more fearful in its consequences than even idolatry.

Before the leaders and the soldiers of Italy could obtain the indispensable place whereon to stand, it was imperatively necessary that the power of Austria should be broken down, through the defeat and consequent demoralization of her army.

All the world knows now, and the Bulgarian staff must have known at the time, that for a week after Lüle Burgas the utter demoralization of the Turkish retreat left the way open to Constantinople.

Who shall say what temporary demoralization there may have been in this troop of the Third at that critical moment, or what fresh courage may have been fired in them by that black man's act!

It added to the inward demoralization which had suddenly dammed her power of speech.

On the other hand, the internationalization of industries would soon, by excluding and preventing any competition, produce a deterioration of products and a profound demoralization of the working population.

Then followed, with the eager search after gold and silver, a rapid demoralization in all maritime countries.

" "Bad management, you mean?" "Bad management at the top, and rotten demoralization at the bottom as a natural consequence.

The reactionists, in their implacable odium of progress and liberty, considered every measure calculated to give greater freedom to the people or raise their moral and intellectual status as a crime against the mother country; hence the utter absence of the means of education, and a systematic demoralization of the masses.

Commerce had been the chief cause of the total demoralization of antiquity, and of this, they were permitted to preserve only a boat navigation."

The demoralization necessarily attendant upon all wars is to be met and overcome only by simple and manly religious conviction and effort.

If the secret could be kept for a few hours longer, the junto would unload the Trans-Western, strike, tie-up and general demoralization, upon an unsuspecting Overland management.

The Turks would make no concession and admit no reverse, and the insurgents, having been victorious in three out of four combats, and having brought the Turkish forces into the most desperate demoralization (as I was able to learn by the Turkish deserters who came daily into Ragusa), were not in the least disposed to relinquish the hold on the position they had won.

Let that people dread the future, who, in their collective capacity, systematically encourage injustice of any sort; since their own eventual demoralization will follow as a necessary consequence, even though they escape punishment in a more direct form.

You can see it in their faces also; in the gradual demoralization of their nature.