Examples of 'siege mentality' in a sentence

Meaning of "siege mentality"

Siege mentality: A state of defensiveness or resistance to outside influences, often characterized by an 'us against them' mindset
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  • A collective feeling of victimization and defensiveness, in which a group of people believe themselves to be constantly attacked, oppressed, or isolated in the face of the negative intentions of the rest of the world.

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But this siege mentality took over.
These methods are exporting the siege mentality.
This siege mentality is well known in psychiatry.
I would not be surprised if they developed a siege mentality.
There is a siege mentality at the presidential palace.
Mourinho appears to have been evoking something of a siege mentality in recent weeks.
There is a siege mentality in the palace.
The punishment of Mallet has unified foreign and local press in a kind of siege mentality.
They have a siege mentality.
The siege mentality starts with a sense of collective victimhood.
They had a siege mentality.
A siege mentality has set in.
There has been a strengthening of the siege mentality within the Muslim community.
That siege mentality had clearly deepened since the shootings.
One of the problems at the moment is the siege mentality adopted by the Council.

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The siege mentality and bifurcation of the world into ideological warring camps have ended.
It is a siege mentality.
Vituperative animosities legitimise military and autocratic rule, nurturing a siege mentality.
This makes the siege mentality that prevailed in Nice all the more regrettable.
As these societies polarize into warring camps, children there grow up with a siege mentality.
Critics have accused Suu Kyi of adopting a siege mentality as global condemnation has mounted.
At Mauthausen, I had the feeling that the camp authorities lived in something of a siege mentality.
Cultivation of a siege mentality among majority populations is a marker of today 's ethno-populism.
The regime 's xenophobia had the effect of creating a siege mentality and a sense of constant emergency.
The siege mentality against " outsiders " is rife.
There are few patrols conducted outside the municipal capital, and a siege mentality pervades the town.
Perhaps, but adopting a siege mentality is ultimately self-defeating.
Miscavige, like Hubbard, evidently developed a siege mentality.
True, but adopting a siege mentality is ultimately self-defeating.
It 's the siege mentality.
Indian politicians nurse the Muslim siege mentality because it sustains ' counterfeit secularism . '.
But this siege mentality took over, right?

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