Sentence examples for defeated themselves from inspiring English sources

On 2 November 2010, the Democrats defeated themselves.

In the post-mortem Monday, Giants players tried to peddle positives about how they defeated themselves, how their personal fouls were foolish and their errors were avoidable.

It was evident, even in the first minutes after the game, that they would believe the rest of their lives that they defeated themselves.

If his detention was meant to expose Ghonim's rawest aspect, then his interrogators defeated themselves: what has been left most exposed, after twelve days, is a set of clear convictions about what he was doing and why, the meaning of the rule of law, and the gamble of civil disobedience.

He risked repeating the jihadists' ruinous bloodletting in Algeria during the 1990s when, Atiyah said, "their enemy did not defeat them, but rather they defeated themselves, were consumed and fell .The savagery of the Algerian jihad took the lives of more than 100,000 people through the 1990s.

"The regulations are basically defeating themselves," Mr. Pomfret said.

But even here, investors tend to defeat themselves.

Similarly, incentive programs can sometimes defeat themselves by inadvertently encouraging unnecessary travel.

In other words, courageous people may defeat themselves, out of an excess of courage — a truth that tragedians have been telling us for a long time but which Morris's doubling as Dido and the Sorceress made more patent, indeed, pushed in our faces.

But if the by-product of the western wheeling and dealing in such markets is to encourage the belief that the climate's health is another commodity - rather than something for which we all bear moral responsibility - then these markets could defeat themselves.

I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves.