(1) Redundancy can be a demoralising prospect.

(2) They have left the teaching profession, demoralised and undervalued.

(3) The employment service is disillusioned, demoralised and underfunded.

(4) The Social Democrats created huge momentum in the 1980s, but still failed-beaten back by Labour at its most demoralised.

(5) Soigneur A person who gives massage and every other kind of comfort to exhausted, injured or demoralised riders.

(6) Ian Wright also had food for thought as he made a hasty exit from Arsenal's demoralised dressing room.

(7) Such an experience may be demoralising if you're unlucky to get caught up in the tangle.

(8) There the Dark Elves had been demoralised by the Witch King's defeat and hounded relentlessly by guerilla forces.

(9) Fighting between the Mujahideen has taken as much effort as battling the demoralised government forces.

(10) But she is rapidly growing demoralised by her situation and is increasingly disinclined to do very much.

(11) On May 4 that year a demoralised Labour Party lost office, its credibility in tatters.

(12) The rebels hope to weaken the regime further by attacking its defeated and demoralised forces.

(13) He knew from interviews with students at entry and graduation that many were demoralised by the course.

(14) Few things were more demoralising than to stand uselessly by while other men demonstrated their professional competence.

(15) Mr Papandreou's Pasok, embittered and demoralised, remains unable to evolve from unreconstructed popularism and anti-right rhetoric.

(16) It was a demoralising blow for Owen.

(17) This is a good way of demoralising the team and making sure that they never learn, grow or develop.

(18) Most find the start of the week so demoralising that we can't even bear to crack a smile until 11.16am.

(19) But there have also been demoralising numbers: unemployment is still rising fast, insolvencies are commonplace.

(20) For me it was demoralising and I hope it was for the players as well.

(21) Do not set your goals too high or else you will always be failing and there is nothing more demoralising.

(22) The link is the growing strain on the world"s sole superpower. America is locked into a draining and demoralising war."

(23) Campaigners have argued that mandatory retirement when a person reaches a certain age is demoralising and discriminatory.

(24) GUANGZHOU, China: Japan and North Korea put China and South Korea to the sword at the Asian Games on Monday, inflicting demoralising defeats as the football tournament kicked into gear.

(25) Dumby: Good heavens! How marriage ruins a man. It's as demoralising as cigarettes and far more expensive!

(26) The regular entrance of thirty-five dollars a week to one who has endured scant allowances for several years is a demoralising thing.

(27) For Ferguson to devise this team and his goalkeeper, Ben Amos, to go through the match without getting a scuff of mud on his kit demonstrates what a demoralising night it was for Leeds.

(28) They will look for a suitable ship to attack if you don't specify your own target and then crash right into it causing heavy damage and demoralising the enemy.

(29) Arsenal go into the game on the back of demoralising defeats to Chelsea and Manchester United - and Benitez is wary of a backlash.

(30) Seeing this jolly fellow side with the North was allegedly very demoralising for the southern forces.

(31) The Gunners slumped to a second successive season without silverware, finishing fourth in the Premiership and a demoralising 21 points behind champions Manchester United.

(32) So be it. Losing a war is even more demoralising than losing ships or jets.

(33) “It’s very demoralising that this thing has happened when we thought we had arrived at a modern industrialised society,” says David Begg, general secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions.