(a.) Implying, or partaking of the nature of, fatalism.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three constructs of TUA were identified: passive fatalistic, egoistic, and conscientious.
(2) A fatalistic attitude to the disease is combined with rumination and social withdrawal.
(3) David Birch, director of digital currency consultants Hyperion, argued that the fatalistic view of Scotland's previous experiment with multiple currencies was wrong, and that they more successful than history gives credit.
(4) When asked whether the task was economically viable when British companies faced competition from foreign, lower-paying multinationals, Miliband said: "I don't subscribe to that fatalistic view" and pointed out his examples of better models came from Germany, which has stayed competitive with countries such as China.
(5) Thirteen variables were examined for their association with compliance; these were age, sex, duration of hypertension since diagnosis, adequacy of blood pressure control, complexity of drug regimen and side-effect of drug, history of previous admission for hypertension related reason, patient's knowledge of hypertensive complications, patient's belief that drug was 'panas' or 'san', previous use of traditional treatment for hypertension, patient's fatalistic attitude, their social support and satisfaction with the health services.
(6) Generally, she is one of life's fatalists: Take a Little Pill and Illegitimate Children are desert-dry and bleak with it.
(7) Yet it is also not hard to find people who are fatalistic.
(8) It grinds us down until we adopt a worldview that is pessimistic, desensitised, sarcastic and fatalistic.
(9) The above consideration probably plays a major role in our attitudes of almost fatalistic resignation towards the youthful victims of trauma.
(10) According to Tim Briercliffe of the HTA, fatalistic-sounding civil servants told him that as the disease was already endemic on the continent it was likely to come to the UK.
(11) He was fatalistic about that, as sportspeople who persist through severe injury often are.
(12) All around the country, Sons of Iraq leaders, also known as members of the Awakening Council, or al-Sahwa, rattle off similar numbers of attempts on their lives with a fatalistic calm.
(13) I’m fatalistic – whatever is meant to be, will be.” Which isn’t to say you don’t put the work in.
(14) Although current smokers were cognitively aware of their added health risk, in comparison to past and "never" smokers, they minimized the salience of awareness by fatalistically attributing their health to chance factors such as luck and by minimizing the dangers of smoking, the benefits of smoking cessation, and their own increased vulnerability to life-threatening illnesses.
(15) A positive correlation was found between uncertainty about the future and fatalistic coping, and a negative correlation between depression and optimistic coping.
(16) Yet the response to them is no longer quite as fatalistic as it once was.
(17) Ali, my Aleppan taxi driver, was unfazed but fatalistic.
(18) But don't get me wrong, there are still Poles who remain good, old-fashioned fatalists.
(19) The results indicated a highly significant association between scores for the tendency to control emotional reactions and a fatalistic attitude toward cancer.
(20) And he thinks that what he offers on Thursday morning is an optimistic and less fatalistic message that can overcome those daunting poll numbers.
Submissive
Definition:
(a.) Inclined or ready to submit; acknowledging one's inferiority; yielding; obedient; humble.
(a.) Showing a readiness to submit; expressing submission; as, a submissive demeanor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
(2) After the impact … I lost my balance, making my body unstable and falling on top of my opponent,” he said in his submission to the panel, which met on Wednesday, a day after Uruguay had beaten Italy 1-0 in a decisive group-stage match.
(3) • Criminal sanctions should be introduced for anyone who attempts to manipulate Libor by amending the Financial Services and Market Act to allow the FSA to prosecute manipulation of the rate • The new body that oversees the administration of Libor, replacing the BBA, should introduce a "code of conduct" that requires submissions to be corroborated by trade data • Libor is set by a panel of banks asked the price at which they expect to borrow over 15 periods, from overnight to 12 months, in 10 currencies.
(4) But the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), in a submission to a parliamentary inquiry into housing that was established by Hockey, backed the need to review negative gearing.
(5) In a barely-noticed submission to the government's Environmental Audit Committee, the London borough of Hounslow, the airport's near neighbours, said the airport was: breaching the World Health Organisation's guidelines for the levels for noise in people's bedrooms; breaching the EU guidelines for levels of nitrogen dioxide; and breaching British standards on the noise experienced by children in classrooms.
(6) In a joint submission, the groups said agencies seeking access to metadata would “naturally tend to ‘ask for everything’ because completeness lowers the risk of any small detail being missed”.
(7) In a submission to a House of Lords EU subcommittee , it said: "Most of the stakeholders consulted believe that opting out of this and relying on alternative arrangements would result in fewer extraditions, longer delays, higher costs, more offenders evading justice and increased risk to public safety."
(8) fbi justified homicide chart Academics and specialists have long been aware of flaws in the FBI numbers, which are based on voluntary submissions by local law enforcement agencies of paperwork known as supplementary homicide reports.
(9) The BBC should not be forced to close any channels or axe any programmes as part of any review of plurality and ownership in the media industry, according to a submission the broadcaster has filed with media regulator Ofcom .
(10) Second, if you follow this line of reasoning, men in general tend to be overconfident (pdf) – the quantity of submissions has nothing to do with the quality of submissions.
(11) The UN in Jerusalem was unable to comment on the process, it added, but the submission from Jerusalem to New York was “based on verified facts, not influenced by any member state or other entity”.
(12) Its submissions to the consultation, which it forced the MoJ to rerun, states: “There will certainly be plenty of redundancies among qualified solicitors … Given the rates of pay under the new scheme, firms will not be recruiting qualified solicitors but unqualified paralegals.” Nicola Hill, president of the LCCSA, said: “We’re seeing the effect of a policy which puts the cost of justice above its value.
(13) For the colony administration, controlled hazing is a convenient method for forcing prisoners into total submission to their systemic abuse of human rights.
(14) The AFP confirmed to the commission it was investigating the author or authors of submission 183 over the attached working documents.
(15) Perry himself said that “anxiety seems to be a theme” of the submissions from remainers.
(16) At parliament house, lobbyists queued to see ministers and bombarded new members of parliament with detailed submissions.
(17) Unlike China’s submission to the UN in June , India’s does not spell out when its emissions might peak.
(18) "We don't really know what the evidence is," Wisniewski said on NBC’s Meet the Press, pointing out that if Wildstein had personal possession of material implicating Christie, he would have been expected to include it in his previous submission under subpoena.
(19) These are very accomplished people and they’ve never seen so much red ink on their copy.” And yet Ademo says he would welcome more submissions from scholars.
(20) Men who adopted a submissive feminine role and women with high masculine aggressive scores were more permissive as regards drinking.