The Ming government became completely demoralized.
Once surrounded, the opposing army, demoralized and with no chance of escape, would face the choice of annihilation or surrender.
Again, it was said in the mid-20th century that American youth had been demoralized by such writers as Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner, in that these writers set an example of bad behaviour.
In modern societies brutality and sadistic murder of slaves by their owners were rarely condoned on the grounds that such episodes demoralized other slaves and made them rebellious, but few slave owners were actually punished for maltreating their slaves.
There, by a combination of patience and tact, he successfully led his unpaid, ill-fed, and demoralized troops against the French.
The Arabs of Palestine, divided, badly led, and reliant on the regular armies of the Arab states, became demoralized, and their efforts to prevent partition collapsed.
Although 3,000 Confederates managed to escape, the defeat demoralized Southern society; citizens in Nashville rioted, Southern hopes of help from England diminished, Johnston's reputation was destroyed, and the Union now owned a deep wedge into the Southern lines.
Appointed to the additional office of secretary for the marine in 1723, he undertook the immense task of reorganizing the severely demoralized French navy.
In January 1939 the Spanish anarchists were so demoralized by the compromises of the Civil War that they were unable to mount a resistance when Franco's forces marched into Barcelona.
These papal actions demoralized and shook the German hierarchy.
The ethnic complexity of the region, together with its history of division and manipulation by outsiders, left the local population demoralized and conflicted.
