Sentence examples for aid mentality from inspiring English sources

Hindered by what development agencies acknowledge has been poor planning, insufficient appreciation of the environment's myriad complexities and an aid mentality focused on quick cash infusions rather than longer-term investment, many economic programs for women in Afghanistan have struggled to find their footing.

The ease with which Pochettino's side created openings would have been a concern for Pardew, who before kick-off said his return to the stadium would aid a "winning mentality".

That same mentality aided Presti when, in 2007 at age 30, he became the N.B.A.'s youngest general manager with the Seattle SuperSonics.

A top Republican who supported the appeal told me this week that the decision could be useful in changing the longstanding legislative mentality of making school aid a matter of naked power politics.

A country in its own right for barely 10 years, Macedonia has developed a "bunker mentality," as one foreign aid official described it, feeling that it is surrounded by unfriendly powers.

With the unemployment rate rising and a recession mentality gripping the country, financial aid administrators say they expect many more calls like the one from Ms. Jacobs.

But stories also abound of the startling stupidities and failures of aid projects whose origins lie in a mentality belonging to a world that appears to have vanished.

More must be done to reestablish security for Iraqis, aid workers and American troops, without creating a bunker mentality that walls foreigners off from the Iraqi population.

It compared Aids scientists to latter-day Nazi concentration camp doctors and portrayed black people who accepted orthodox Aids science as "self-repressed" victims of a slave mentality.

And when used to perpetuate a patrician v. plebeian mentality, it's a script perfect for aiding campaigns that win and justifying those that don't.

"Just because you are dependent on aid doesn't mean you have to have a dependent mentality.