Sentence examples for means mentality from inspiring English sources

But with an "ends justifies the means" mentality, and confidence the general public will turn a blind eye, they find loopholes to do it anyway.

If they are no longer virgins, if they are naughty, it means their mentality is not good," Indonesian military spokesman Fuad Basya told the Guardian.

If they are no longer virgins, if they are naughty, it means their mentality is not good," Indonesian military spokesman Maj Gen Fuad Basya said.

Blinded by their ignorance, moral righteousness and end-justifies-the-means mentality, Zoe's Ark was only just prevented from kidnapping dozens of children, all in the name of doing good.

We imported the self-righteous, "for us or against us", ends-justifying-means mentality, which justifies not only the erosion of civil liberties but the presumptions on which they're based.

It took today's mean mentality to see cathedrals and courthouses as 'waste space.'" — "The Unreal America" (1997).

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That same mentality means that a BBC funding model could never prevail in America, Burns believes.

The collective post-9/11 siege mentality means we seem to have jettisoned the Geneva conventions.

Their born-to-rule mentality means they have a greatly over-inflated view of their own capabilities, which deafens their ears to the advice and warnings of others who might actually know better.

There have been no reports that the rebels have committed massacres like those perpetrated by Mr Assad's thugs, but a growing "with us or against us" mentality means that civilians loyal to the regime are being targeted as well as combatants.Some opposition commanders grumble that they have no other option: prisoners are expensive to keep and tiresome to move.