The liquor trade is the most powerful of all "interests" in the corruption of politics, one of the most demoralizing phases of our American life.
The abolishing of the liquor trade will take away the great political ally of the trade in girlhood; and without the demoralizing influence of alcohol fewer men will yield to their passions and fewer girls be pliant thereto.
Stories of this barrage were circulated all over Germany; sailors who had been in contact with it related their experiences to their fellows; and the result was extremely demoralizing to the German submarine flotilla.
Furthermore, the efficiency of the English navy, which was double in numbers that of the Dutch, was at this time at a low pitch; the demoralizing effects of the reign of Charles II.
Such employment would be demoralizing to any military service, but not necessarily all at once; and the conditions imparted for the time a tone and energy to privateering that it cannot always have.
And either one of these methods of courtship, it is evident, cannot but be in the end demoralizing and degrading to thoughtless young people, however innocent they may be of any deliberate wrong-doing.
It is said, that in keeping up the amount of the tax, the Russian Government has had less in view the advantage of a larger participation of interests than a desire to check a kind of industry very demoralizing in its nature.
The result of his investigations was a settled conviction that executions did not tend to diminish crime, but rather to increase it, by their demoralizing effect on the community.
In other cases the work is demoralizing because it does not call out the best faculties of the children, or leaves them altogether idle for a part of the year.
And thus the doctrine of divine forgiveness, as taught by pagans and Christians, has proved to be demoralizing in its effects upon society.
And thus it arrests thedemoralizing effects of this pernicious doctrine of the Christian bible.
I deplore everything of this kind, however plausible, as demoralizing to the country.
Foreign powers, encouraged by the court, tried to gain adherents of their various policies by bribes to councillors and members of the Riksdag, thus demoralizing state politics.
This practice, ignoble in itself, injured the dignity of the state and had a demoralizing influence.
But I go round among the other law offices, and I tell you it's a demoralizing profession.
Can it be said that the wars of the American Revolution and of 1812, were demoralizing in their effects?
To the true believer in the efficacy of non-resistance, and in the demoralizing influence of all wars, how striking the contrast between these different periods in our political history!
The seasonal character of the work meant demoralizing toil for a few months in the year, and a not less demoralizing idleness for the remainder of the time.
The demoralizing and destructive traffic in ardent spirits among the tribes also claimed the earnest attention of the conference, and the delegates of the United States were foremost in advocating measures for its repression.
She associated with man without seductive spectacles or demoralizing excitements, and retained her influence by securing his respect.
The vow of poverty, therefore, was a stern, lofty, disdainful protest against the most dangerous and demoralizing evil of the Empire.
When he invoked demoralizing passions, he converted all Arabia in eleven years.
They became vagabonds and vagrants; they introduced demoralizing amusements, and jugglers and strolling players appeared for the first time in Europe.
But are not some of his prejudices against the demoralizing tendency of the Methodistical delusion (to use his own phraseology) shaken by your conduct?
Dickens had made a close study of this type of London gamin, as we have discovered in his Artful Dodger, Master Bates, and other demoralizing and diverting characterizations.
The demoralizing system of confinement in gangs has been done away with also, the cells in which the prisoners froze in cold weather have been made comfortable, and the standard of the management of the jail raised in every way.
The steadying influences of old environments have been lost, the influence of the new environment is too stimulating at its best and demoralizing at its worst.
The demoralizing influence of migratory populations ought not to be overlooked in this connection.
I expect, in fact, to give the subject of Atheism a pretty thorough examination in that volume, and to show that it is irrational and demoralizing from beginning to end, and to the last extreme.
But there are certain facts which he has not revealed, facts of great importance too, calculated to show thedemoralizing tendency of infidelity.
All their genius, learning, and interest, will not be able to save them from the withering effect of their accumulated horrors, shocking indecencies, and demoralizing tendency.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "demoralizing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
