Sentence examples for has shot itself from inspiring English sources
"I think English football has shot itself in the foot.
The management at Royal Holloway has shot itself in the foot".
Don't mess about with income tax … The government has shot itself in the foot.
"The Philharmonie has shot itself in both feet," Nouvel told Le Monde.
"The U.S., in that respect, has shot itself in the foot".
Interior design has shot itself in the foot, like the couture business.
Others said the Kremlin had shot itself in the foot by removing a man who, unlike many of his rebel colleagues, was prepared to talk peace.
The Royal Academy, it seemed, had shot itself in the foot so dramatically that it no longer had even the stump of a leg to stand on.
For a government that purports to be "female friendly" with its policies on maternity leave, IVF for lesbians, domestic violence and rape and equal pay, Labour appears to have shot itself in the foot.
Although Budapest has backed the imposition of sanctions on Russia for its role in the Ukraine crisis, Mr Orban has stressed the limited effect they have had on the situation, and last year he said the EU had "shot itself in the foot" by restricting trade with Russia.
Hasina said the biggest opposition party, the Bangladesh Nationalist party (BNP), from whom she took over power in 2008, had shot itself in the foot by boycotting last year's national polls, which the the AL and its minor party allies subsequently won by default.
