Sentence examples for defensive narrative from inspiring English sources

"Jewish," for many diaspora Jews, in contrast, has a congregational definition, as a religion with an encoded, defensive narrative and Halachic strictures.

This was hardly a vast left-wing conspiracy, but it fed the right's defensive narrative that the word "racism" has become a weapon — not the shot of a rifle carefully aimed at a clear target, but a shotgun blast sprayed wide and loose at all things anti-Obama.

For those who are curious about how today's oligarchs established themselves, Kokh, who had a front-row seat as head of privatization, provides a lengthy, if defensive, narrative.

This reveals the other master narrative that any campaign must deploy, a defensive story to defuse attacks -- in this case, launched improbably by Fox News.

Todd D. Stern, the Obama administration's special envoy for climate change, was put on the defensive by a narrative developing here that the United States opposed any further action to address global climate disruption until after 2020, when the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, a primary United Nations climate agreement, and voluntary programs negotiated more recently will have run their course.

But over all, the mini-series suffers from defensive storytelling; it's a narrative driven in splintered directions less by inspiration than by avoidance.

This was the true beginning of the simple narrative myth of a defensive jihad against "Crusader-Zionist" aggression against the universal Muslim ummah.

Moreover, informants may have felt under pressure to justify and excuse their own perceived failure to avert the tragedy, thus producing narratives that are primarily defensive in orientation.

He did what he needed to do, putting his opponent on the defensive and providing the media with an alternative narrative to "Newt surges".

Rosemary Randall's paper suggests that this division into parallel narratives is the result of a defensive process of splitting and projection that protects the public from the need to truly face and mourn the losses associated with climate change.

The Islamic State's capture of Ramadi last month also punctured the administration's narrative that the group was on the defensive.