He wondered about the likelihood of a write-in campaign's defeating Lopez, in November.
Is Bryant a team savior with his gumption or team-defeating in his selfishness?
She rightly exposed the pursuit of misguided, domestically driven policies as self-defeating in the mid to long term.
For instance, if θ is ¬τ then application of the rule is in a sense self-defeating, in that an application of the rule itself causes the consistency condition to fail.
This wealth tax has proven self-defeating in that during the period of 1997-2001 more than €11 billion in assets and almost 2,000 executives and families left France and its income and wealth taxes.
More important, blaming the customers is as self-defeating in politics as it is in business.
Instead, she responded by sweeping through the draw in Charleston, S.C., defeating Hingis in the final.
It last won the World Cup in 1990, defeating Argentina in another cagey final.
Liverpool only avoided relegation in the 1952 53 season by defeating Chelsea in the club's final fixture, in April 1953.
"So far we are only defeating them in various places in Kurdistan by giving our blood.
