But Russia's restrictions make its work useless or worse than useless, as Georgia's plight illustrates.Yet Russia's victory in hobbling the OSCE is ultimately self-defeating: the main result is to give more clout to NATO.
According to Kennan, whose concept of American diplomacy was based on the realist approach, such moralism without regard to the realities of power and the national interest is self-defeating and will result in the decrease of American power.
In other ways, I think it can be seen from the outside as self-defeating, and the end result might be self-defeating, but I think a lot of Indians view their separation and their refusal to belong as an open act of defiance.
This negative Neptune influence can keep a person trapped in a self-defeating behavior pattern that results in repeatedly experiencing disappointing relationships.
The result is self-defeating for both countries and for regional security.
Even then, there is no guarantee the ECB would intervene.Given what we know has happened so far in Europe as a result of self-defeating austerity and myopic deficit targets, this seems like madness.
Stop trying to sell ever more bothersome and intrusive advertisements in a desperate attempt to raise your ad rates a tiny amount: that's a tactic which is now manifestly self-defeating, and which will only result in Google and Facebook winning everything.
To many frustrated Clinton supporters, that was an understatement and result of a self-defeating tendency, embodied by the controversy over her home email server, to let an obsession with personal privacy cloud her judgment.
When it shoots first and asks questions later, as it did in its short-sale restrictions during the financial meltdown in 2008, the result can be self-defeating, useless or at best transitory.
As a result of my self-defeating thoughts (depression symptom) and predictions of worst-case scenarios (anxiety symptom), I don't think I would ever get anything done if I sat down at a desk and said, "Okay, it's time to write now".
Many practitioners sear their results afterwards for appearance, which seems self-defeating.
