Sentence examples for costing themselves from inspiring English sources

Players call penalties on themselves, sometimes costing themselves strokes, victories and money.

Sometimes candidates, like Rick Santorum in three districts in Ohio, may fail to post a full delegate slate in those districts, costing themselves the opportunity to win delegates even if they win the popular vote there.

If we take America's performance as a good estimate of potential rich-country growth (rather than, more likely, a very conservative lower bound), then we can take this growing Atlantic divergence as a measure of policy-induced macroeconomic failure: in other words, the gap in output and welfare that Europeans are needlessly costing themselves by behaving foolishly.

Even the few employees who have obtained sizable rewards usually had to wait years for a recovery, and almost universally lost their jobs in the meantime, costing themselves and their families millions of dollars in lost income and benefits.

In the rush to save money, many companies are unwittingly pushing their customers through inappropriate "channel pathways" and poorly executed interfaces, costing themselves near-term revenue and long-term relationships whose value far outweighs whatever savings, if any, may initially be realized.

The fact that women not only tend to underestimate their own math skills when they are job candidates but also underestimate the ability of other women when they are in a hiring position reveals what "members of disadvantaged groups are costing themselves," Banaji says.

They cost themselves and the nation more.

After Game 1, Payton said he did not think the Mets had cost themselves the Series.

The Grizzlies almost cost themselves the victory with poor free throw shooting.

But the Jets have mostly cost themselves the chance to get turnovers.

The Orioles cost themselves a chance to play at home, but the delay might be only temporary.