Sentence examples for the prevailing mentality from inspiring English sources

In Yksityisiä asioita (1960; "Private Matters"), he castigates the prevailing mentality during the civil war (1918) in Finland.

This was the prevailing mentality when Sachio Semmoto took an engineering job in 1966 at Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), then a state-owned monopoly.

Despite the various initiatives, the biggest obstacle to advancing protections for girls seems to be the prevailing mentality in Morocco about women and their place in society.

The prevailing mentality is cottage industry: don't spend to invest in the long term, but instead build to sell out, almost certainly to a large, well-capitalised US player.

Whether that's true or not for all sectors remains to be seen (AWS would certainly beg to differ), it seems to be the prevailing mentality in healthcare.

In a speech to business leaders and labor representatives, Latin America's first pope assailed the "prevailing mentality (that) advocates for the greatest possible profits, immediately and at any cost".

"Not only are we being beaten, crippled and killed, other actions are being taken against us needlessly," said Mr. Brown, who is black, accusing the Police Department of a "prevailing mentality of shoot first and lie about it later".

According to the Turkish side his statements reflect the "prevailing problematic mentality in Armenia as to the territorial integrity of its neighbor Turkey".

Participants alluded to the prevailing patriarchal mentality throughout all layers of society.

Let's hope one upside of the current financial crisis will be directors who belatedly become willing to cast aside the prevailing lemming-like mentality toward pay, and instead start setting it on behalf of the shareholders they claim to serve.

There also needs to be a spirit of collaboration, the spirit of "we're all in this together" versus the prevailing "Me first" mentality.