Translation of "Defätistisch" in English

Volkov's response to the MMM crisis has been optimistic, as well as defeatist.

The mood of the right wing is depressed and defeatist.

In reality it was self-contradictory, treacherous, and rapidly becoming defeatist.

The idea was advanced that the pursuit of leisure was defeatist.

The second option, namely kowtowing to Putin, is too 'defeatist' for many.

At the risk of sounding defeatist or spreading panic, it is a good thing that the EU and the Member States are preparing for the possibility of a bird flu pandemic among humans.

Therein lies the significance of everything that this House’s rapporteur, Reiner Böge, has been able to instil in a text that I consider satisfactory and pragmatic, without being defeatist.

Wild initially estimated that they would have to wait one month for rescue, and refused to allow long-term stockpiling of seal and penguin meat because this, in his view, was defeatist.

So far, the debat on the tax has been negative and defeatist, probably because of a lack of information.

Wild initially estimated that they would have to wait one month for rescue, and refused to allow long-term stockpiling of seal and penguin meat because this, in his view, was defeatist.

So maybe it's time to Stop Worrying and... well, not love the bomb, that's too defeatist, but rather laugh at the bomb.

This would not be the first time in history that the bourgeoisie became defeatist—just look at the Paris Commune.

In fact both political decisions were 'sold' through lies and manipulation, while sceptics were labelled unpatriotic and defeatist....

But the quantity of formations in the earth atmosphere that we might call “defeatist,” it's tre-men- dous!

Even in such historic circumstances as these, for the trade unions to claim the undiminished proceeds of labour would not only be anti-economic and anti-social, but defeatist too with regard to the terrible task which history has assigned to the class of pure wage-earners, and to that class alone: that of bring about the bloody delivery of the new society.

The rock, the stone, that is, the most exclusively material, isn't defeatist.

For this view I have been accused, by well-meaning radical voices, of being “defeatist” and of trying to save an indefensible European socioeconomic system.

This tendency, which is warmly welcomed by all enemies of the proletarian revolution (Stalinist "communism" rejects anything that reminds them of the glories of the Red October) is not only defeatist but it is an illusion.

And while Israel need not be Panglossian in staking its security and livelihood on the best of all possible worlds, nor should it be defeatist in constantly planning, as Sharon tragically does, for the worst.

At the same time, the consolidation of Indonesia as a bastion of "free world" anti-Communism created the conditions for the later development of a wing of the American ruling class which became "defeatist" as the heroic Vietnamese fighters drove them out of Indochina.