Sentence examples for mentality cut from inspiring English sources

It was this outsider mentality, cut adrift from the ties that bound their parents, which made drug dealing a more acceptable way of getting out of a tight economic spot.

It was this outsider mentality, cut adrift from the ties that bound their parents, that made drug dealing a more acceptable way of getting out of a tight economic spot.

The established norms that populist governments are undermining at home could be extended abroad, driven by a ruthless business mentality to cut better deals.

Yet the same across-the-board-cut mentality that led to sequester and shutdown has shortsightedly cut statistics agencies, too, as if there were something "nonessential" about spending money on accurately assessing the economic effects of government actions and inactions.

At home, where he's unpopular in the polls but less so around the dinner table, Sarkozy has circumvented the 35-hour week by slashing taxes on overtime, freed up universities, downsized the state functionary community (and mentality), spurred small businesses, cut public spending and set in motion a radical reform aimed at creating a 21st-century army.

(transcribed by Ryan Gaffney).

As I drove our Dodge Neon past the valet at the Flamingo to a distant parking garage, I sensed my friend's impatience with my cut-rate mentality.

"As good as Brad is, we are trying to encourage him to have a cut-throat mentality, that even if he doesn't have a lot of touches in the game, he just needs one to make a difference".

[stakeholder, extract 5] The cultural salience for a 'quick fix' narrative We are so much built into the mentality of wanting short-cuts.

It's foolish to believe that a conservative guy who spent his whole life working in manual labor to put his kids through school would support the falsely manufactured Republican mentality that "we're all cut out to be small business owners" or that tax cuts are what makes the world go 'round.

And yet sadly it seems we're stuck with a national mentality where only novelty value cuts any ice, and where anyone wanting coverage of any kind has to resort to quirky attention-seeking.