This would help them to break out of the self- defeating Battle of Britain mentality of the past 15 years, and serve the British national interest.
How self-defeating of the DNC to become an enemy to its constituents, to suppress and stea their votes; all to benefit a woman so amoral she would steal the American presidency.
Once taxes get to even moderate levels, this is self defeating as it drives out of the state the most productive taxpayers and reduces revenues.
"At a certain point it becomes sort of self-defeating for al Qaeda to continue to hammer ISIS," he added.
That's sort of self defeating," he adds.
The "shellacking" Obama spoke of was more a result of self-defeat than the brilliance of the Republicans.
So, there's a kind of idea that I pick up on from Schopenhauer that there's something sort of self-defeating in the pursuit of goals.
One of the most common self-defeating patterns of behavior among young people is this phenomena of displacement.
For quite aside from being a fundamentally discourteous display, the debacle demonstrated the sheer self-defeating stupidity of today's students, too ignorant to appreciate the importance of language in undermining an argument.
Ariely, D, Schooler, J, and Loewenstein, G. "The Pursuit and Assessment of Happiness Can be Self-Defeating". In The Psychology of Economic Decisions,edited by I Broacs and J Carrillo.
It reveals the self-defeating reductionism of such paranoid thinking, since it presumes that all we have are prejudices, the only difference being that my prejudice is right and yours is wrong.
