Sentence examples similar to defeating strategy from inspiring English sources

What explains this self-defeating strategy?

"Since NOx emissions at low temperature are currently not regulated, this observation hints towards a very peculiar combustion strategy (defeat strategy?) the manufacturer applies at low temperature".

But a note from the EU's environment department (DG Envi) in 2010 said that work on "defeat strategies" was "an important concern" for them.

Seb Dance, the inquiry's coordinator, said that they "completely contradict everything the commission has told us up to now about their having had no evidence of defeat strategies being used by car manufacturers".

Such hiding of cases defeats strategies for rapid containment". .

It is a self-defeating strategy".

When the President realized that trying to coöperate with the Republican leadership was a self-defeating strategy, he had to make a choice.

Finally, the Europeans need to find some way to get their economies growing again; austerity by itself is a self-defeating strategy.

But keeping loans flowing at such a pace creates such "substantial risks" that it could be a "self-defeating strategy", Chen said.

Refraining from stating this loudly and clearly, and allowing Congress to slip off the hook, has been a puzzling and self-defeating strategy, leading to the crippling sequester and the politics of chronic debt-ceiling crisis.

It's the job of the bailout lenders to get it to that point – and it means that the IMF and eurozone leaders should admit that an overload of austerity is a self-defeating strategy in Portugal.