self-defeating

The chancellor's main argument against fiscal stimulus was that it would raise interest rates and thus be self defeating.

Resisting change or trying to control the change out of life is self-defeating.

Accordingly, saving is self-defeating, as a loss in income will disallow individuals to save over the long-run.

while this seems reasonable, a little thought shows that this approach is self-defeating.

There's much about this genrefication that I find confusing --- and, frankly, a little self-defeating for writers.

Do not prepared to change without objects and divergent, and thus self-defeating.

Transaction taxes are neither as self-defeating as some opponents claim nor as straightforward to put in place as proponents think.

For now, however, much of China's recent bluster turned out to be self-defeating.

Of course, it is possible to misbehave on Facebook--it's just self-defeating.

It is therefore the teacher's task to help students to break out of self-defeating cycles.

That's not a bad thing, and it's not a self-defeating attitude so long as you look at life as a journey in self-improvement.

But although managing exchange rates is an easy way of giving domestic exporters an edge, it is self-defeating from a global perspective.

An American-funded effort to plough up opium poppies, the main cash crop in much of the Pushtun south, has been wasteful and self-defeating.

Any attempt to make up would be self-defeating.

Such an attitude is self-defeating, for complaints are wasted effort and divert attention from possible solutions.

Arbitrary limitations on our ability to access skill sets from across the globe are clearly self-defeating.

Wikileaks has enlisted the architects of media disinformation to fight media disinformation: An incongruous and self-defeating procedure.

This is the self-defeating counsel of despair that Mr Olmert seemed to rebel against only a few months ago.

Yet rarely has such a reasonable aim been so self-defeating.

Message: The PHB specifically gives the example that chanting to make a Rogue move more silently is self-defeating.

But higher rates could attract more hot money, which would be partly self-defeating.

They worked to keep their markets open, rather than retreating into self-defeating measures of discrimination and protection.

IOM argues that denying migrants access to health care is both a violation of their human rights and, ultimately, self-defeating.

One is a reasonable response to a challenging market. The other is a self-defeating trade-off.

This urge to shore up wealth is self-defeating in aggregate, as it curbs spending and incomes.

It is self-defeating, because attempts by every member country to tighten fiscal policy at once will impoverish all, including creditors.

Such moves would be self-defeating for the global economy.

Blaming the Senate, or the United States, is unfair -- and potentially self-defeating.

Diversification to protect that asset' s value, however, may be self- defeating.

as our numbers increase, secrecy of specifications will become a self-defeating policy.

This is a win by relying on the appearance of the consumer in the world, either face to the customer will doubtless be self-defeating.

They are an irresponsible and self-defeating response to a downturn in world economic activity.

of the framework for our understanding of self-defeating influence behavior.

Moreover, its export restrictions will ultimately prove self-defeating.

What explains such seemingly irrational and self-defeating behavior?

Such curbs may be politically expedient, but they are economically self-defeating.

We all have self-defeating responses, but we rarely take the time or effort to replace them with better alternatives.

REJECT those self defeating thoughts of "She must not have been interested. "

Badly designed policies can be self-defeating.

Critics argue that the government's hand-to-mouth policymaking is self-defeating, and illustrates its general lack of planning.

But this collectively huge fiscal contraction is self-defeating.

Digital imaging also contains a self-defeating temporal quality.

This kind of fear is dangerous, self-defeating and downright useless.

And nature is telling us that our current economic model is dangerous and self-defeating.

I then present a social cognitive model of self-defeating influence behavior.

And the good news is, you don't have to disband your quest to obliterate self-defeating limits.

By practicing these agreements, we can chip away at all the self-defeating beliefs we've created within us.

It is so self-defeating to constantly compare yourself to other people.

So it is a self-defeating strategy as long as the currency remains overvalued.

It is unwise and self-defeating. Mr Obama is an internationalist.

Often it is the authorities that are heavy handed and start violence, which is self-defeating and only encourages retaliation.

Europe's grudging attitude to the new president is not only discourteous. It is unwise and self-defeating.

It is self-defeating to digitize the archives and waste the results by restricting access.

Besides, American policy can seem self-defeating.

of self-defeating influence behaviors by leaders.

What explains these self-defeating tactics?

It's a bad argument because it goes around in circles its self defeat-actually that's self defeating rather than self sealing.

This is the self-defeating character of the search for the symbols of status and affluence.

But as that further boosts demand -- and prices -- it also can be self-defeating.

The drive to achieve more may prove self-defeating.

and to choose progress over a self-defeating focus on the past.

Yet in this new age, such attitudes are self-defeating.

Unco-ordinated financial rules are self-defeating because of regulatory arbitrage.

It's a self-defeating strategy, you need to eat enough, and particularly protein, to build lean and toned muscle in the first place.

Yet the current policy is self-defeating too.

It is in any case totally self-defeating.

The North's passive-aggression is most effective as a threat and becomes self-defeating as soon as that threat is played out.

It is self-defeating in a way.

Mr Cameron's veto was self-defeating.

This is unfortunately rather self-defeating.

This is of course self-defeating.

To cut science funding in order to cut the deficit is actually self-defeating.

This is why you must begin to alter self-defeating thoughts in order to experience success.

The move is self-defeating, says Prof Laing, who is also chair of the UK's Association of Business Schools, the industry body.

By contrast the American progressive tradition has been enormously factious, fragmented, and often self defeating;