a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations
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mental ability
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Mentality \Men*tal"i*ty\, n. Quality or state of mind. ``The same hard mentality.'' --Emerson.
Some of its stylised versions of gangland chants are trite - a simplistic effort to understand the gang mentality that sounds in fact condescending.
Apart from all the fundamental factors affecting stock prices, the mentality of this new buyer may affect market behavior for the foreseeable future." Excitement over the funds' new clout helped propel stock prices to new highs in the past week.
BT has long suffered from a fortress mentality, in part because it is still making the long journey from state-owned monopoly to private-sector corporation.
He speaks not just for Uddevalla but for all of Sweden when he says: 'The mentality has to change.
'There is still a big gap between our (new) laws and the mentality of our institutions which is difficult to change,' explains Mr Gramoz Pashko, an opposition MP who is probably the president's harshest critic.
But it also fostered a bureaucratic mentality and an aversion to risk-taking. 'To avoid risks, you put in lots of traps,' says Moulson.
The austere, mainly black-and-white canvases of Pollock, Motherwell, Kline, De Kooning and Soulages represent a mentality that appears to be something like the opposite of that in the design objects and news photos.
It's a low-brow, a bumper-sticker mentality." Philip Perlmutter, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston, called the ad campaign "to me a brazen example of propaganda and hypocrisy.
If people do not like it they can always take their custom elsewhere. The fact that Harrods' dress code has been greeted with such suspicion shows that the customer-is-always-right mentality has gone too far.
In a later interview, he attacked "the Washington-beltway-New York-Eastern mentality that says the easy spending cuts have been made," leaving only tax hikes to lower the deficit.
That's the mentality of today's buyers," said Martin McInerney, a Chrysler dealer in Southfield, Mich.
President Reagan's signing was a profile in the Beltway mentality.
Mr. Allen said that some program-trading critics have a witch-hunt mentality.
Joe Foote, once the press secretary of former speaker Carl Albert and now head of the radio-television department at the university, says the networks have a "roundup the usual suspects" mentality, which sounds plausible.
Mr. Buckner grumbled openly about the "not invented here" mentality that had kept his predecessors from using off-the-shelf software designed for computers made by rival companies.
But they contend the law has put more guns on the street and created a mentality that makes using a gun more acceptable.
To that end, the government will use what Mr Chubais calls 'traditional instruments, acceptable to the normal Russian mentality.
He blames a "chicken-coop mentality" in the Defense Department that ignores the housing needs of soldiers and the lack of programs to help them make sound purchasing decisions or help them relocate.
Everything she does sells and the Turner has not affected her prices'. Schubert sees the destruction of 'House' as 'real short-sightedness, verging on a Fascist mentality: destroy what you don't understand.
The chief said: "We must not allow the police department to slip back into the mentality of the 1960s, when police officers meted out justice with oak nightsticks and the butt of shotguns.
"Some party officials have not adjusted their old mentality," she said. "They still want to call the shots.
The mentality at Telekom has also had to change.
A healthy, efficient and durable democracy demands a change in our mentality and the eradication of ignorance and other social ills." A multiparty system and real parliamentary democracy do not appear likely in the immediate future.
"We have this kind of `Endsieg' mentality."
"It's like saying if you drive a car you can't be a good environmentalist," said Michael Oppenheimer, senior scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund, who sees a "holier than thou" mentality at work in Bernard's scenario.
"The service has developed a bad-cop mentality toward industry," charges John Donaldson, of the Joint Industry Group, a coalition of businesses involved in international trade.
So far, their behavior is arrogant and one of cowboy mentality." Musawi heads Islamic Amal, a faction within the pro-Iranian Hezbollah group that advocates strong links with Syria.
"There must be something wrong with the mentality of those who kidnap an old gentleman of 75 years of age to accomplish certain objectives," he said.
At the same time, illustrating the bazaar-like mentality now involved in such talks, he is stressing his country's need for economic development.
There was a "lynch mob mentality" against Steinberg in New York City as the case began, but jurors worked hard to be fair, said London. "I think the television cameras had a lot to do with that," he said.