Or to put it another way, there is a fear - in the Treasury and the Bank of England - that if you and I talk too freely about deflation having arrived, we would acquire a deflationary mentality and bring on the terrible malaise - and the UK could find itself turning into stagnating Japan.
"I had acquired a European mentality.
You had to "acquire an Italian mentality" and "conceive of the bag as an Italian would".
"The whole nation must acquire an autarchy mentality and be willing to renounce products which are not indispensable and which can be replaced by our products with advantage to our trade balance," Signor Mussolini said.
Being inspired by the artistic tradition of the city and the works of the Renaissance artists, Galileo acquired an aesthetic mentality.
The average guard's salary rose from $14,400 in 1980 to $54,000 in 2002, almost twice the national average for a prison officer.One federal investigation reported last year that "rather than CDC staff correcting prisoners, some correctional officers acquire a prisoner's mentality: they form gangs, align with gangs, and spread the code of silence".
While accompanying his father, Caldwell acquired a deep familiarity with the mentality and dialect of the impoverished sharecroppers that his father ministered to.
Third, large rallies by immigrants, many of them here illegally, protesting more stringent control of immigration reveal that many immigrants have, alas, assimilated: They have acquired the entitlement mentality created by America's welfare state, asserting an entitlement to exemption from the laws of the society they invited themselves into.
"They set the image on fire and hold it in their hand while it burns, saying 'I promise to be faithful to this organisation, and should I betray it, I would burn like this Saint'". The court began focusing more on the children of well-known mafia families aged around 14 or 15 who had "started to acquire the mafiosi mentality", as Di Bella puts it, beginning with petty crimes.
"It creates a mentality of inclusion".
