Voorbeelden van self-defeating

• First, its solution to the existence of disagreements, namely giving precedence to the right to political participation, seems self-defeating.

• Stability is not only hard to g rasp, its pursuit is self-defeating.

• In social dilemmas, game-theoretic rationality is self-defeating, and experimental players frequently violate it.

• Even from a normative point of view, rationality is self-defeating in social dilemmas.

• Policy that has overlooked the complexity of ecology may prove to be self-defeating.

• The force of the son's denial of his fortune serves as a compelling response to the self-defeating reanimations of dust and death.

• This rip-off of the old feminist slogan that the personal is political is, however, totally self-defeating.

• The patient is encouraged to talk about feelings, and to feel understood, rather than to discharge them in self-defeating ways.

• He suggested that the intention to borrow, like that of inventing ritual, is self-defeating.

• Thus, this set of economic policies, taken alone, would be self-defeating.

• If all can do it, it may be self-defeating: no one gains a height advantage if everyone increases in height.

• The discretional path toward economic reform is self-defeating for it fails at establishing the long-term frame that only legal institutions can provide.

• However, as the experience of the past several decades illustrates, this policy will ultimately be self-defeating despite any short-term benets that the government may gain.

• The nationalist strategy is, from a civic patriotic point of view, not only morally objectionable but also tactically self-defeating.

• Such representations were self-defeating as prescriptive employee literature inadvertently contributed to the stereotypical perception it sought to refute.