Sentence examples for self-defeating action from inspiring English sources

Because you treat nature, other people, and your own creations with the care and reverence you would your own infant child, you counteract every self-defeating action before it ever arises in thought or feeling.

While the green hair and black nail polish may have been "very you" in the nineteen eighties, the reality is that trying to relive the past by way of clothing, makeup and hairstyles is often a self-defeating action.

Because of that, they often fall victim to self-defeating actions that can undercut their careers.

Some department stores respond with reflexive and self-defeating actions, like job-shop expediting or price cutting, that causes new surges like the ones Artzt describes.

High on rage and adrenaline, they fail to see that their self-defeating actions play right into the hands of republicans, the group they despise most fiercely.

And yet that targeting is already going on, the insane tyranny of sensible but self-defeating actions on both sides to preserve the peace.

Foxman also directly addressed Obama's comments on Israel and Palestine, saying, "The Palestinians must heed the President's warnings about imprudent and self-defeating actions".

Neither – despite much recent scholarship illuminating how complex the road to independence was, and how impulsively self-defeating the actions of the rebels were – has it faded into history.

Thematically, however, the work remains closer to Chekhov; through a closely observed, often comic family situation we see the self-defeating aspects of misguided social action.

This has been self-defeating, more so because his actions in the past year have suggested a change in direction.

The movement from the powerlessness of Step One to the power of Steps Two and Three is asking us to see how certain aspects of our thinking and actions were self-defeating.