Sentence examples for self-defeating of from inspiring English sources

It's self-defeating, of course, to try and define weirdness (although VanderMeer has offered definitions).

"Captain America" is a reminder, at once successful and self-defeating, of the kind of fun that comics used to be.

"At a certain point it becomes sort of self-defeating for al Qaeda to continue to hammer ISIS," he added.

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.

For instance, if θ is ¬τ then application of the rule is in a sense self-defeating, in that an application of the rule itself causes the consistency condition to fail.

Even stronger warnings came from a Davos old-stager, the investor George Soros, who stressed the self-defeating nature of the austerity being pushed on Europe by Angela Merkel, predicting that the inevitable result would be a Greek default, contagion, a vortex of economic failure and social unrest and eventually a threat to the European Union itself.

This wealth tax has proven self-defeating in that during the period of 1997-2001 more than €11 billion in assets and almost 2,000 executives and families left France and its income and wealth taxes.

Like most of his neighbors, he has stayed put out of a mixture of loyalty, hard luck and self-defeating stubbornness: "They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving, and because for a while at least they'd be able to draw unemployment benefits.

(It seems kind of self-defeating).

But J-PAL's work shows the poor often make "bad" decisions bad in the sense of self-defeating.