Sentence examples for self-inflicted damage from inspiring English sources

He distinguished between "enjoyable" and "nonenjoyable" G.D.P., with the latter including military spending or other "value added" from coping with either externally inflicted or self-inflicted damage done to our society.

The self-inflicted damage had been done.

"She helped steer me through self-inflicted damage".

Now Whitman is scrambling to undo some of the self-inflicted damage.

A rise in borrowing rates could also come from self-inflicted damage.

The self-inflicted damage to the Conservative Party was easy to see.

These acts of self-inflicted property damage were inspired by Keurig's decision, at the end of last week, to temporarily suspend its advertising on Sean Hannity's Fox News show.

Whatever the troughs, however self-inflicted the damage, the sight of the old blue-and-white halves has – like the face of a first love – retained the capacity to stir the blood.

Mr. Fox brays, pouts and preens much like Mr. Hollander did without catching at the poignantly compensatory sense of self-inflicted psychic damage that Jude Law conveyed so well opposite Mr. Fry on screen.

There was no argument for the shutdown itself that a person unblindered by political fantasies should be obliged to respect, no plausible alternative world in which it could have led to any outcome besides self-inflicted political damage followed by legislative defeat, and no epitaph that should be written for its instigators' planning and execution except: "These guys deserved to lose".

The self-inflicted brain damage could temporarily paralyze the beetle just when the newly vulnerable wasp larva needs protection.