self-defeating

How To Use self-defeating In A Sentence

• To minimize how this price is perceived, the self-defeating organization can avail itself of any of the techniques described here.
• For many on the right in the UK, Atlanticism has become synonymous with a self-defeating, virulent Euroscepticism that is bad for Britain. Labour: UK should integrate key defence decisions with Europe
• He is counseled by a sports psychologist who helps him interpret and banish negative, self-defeating feelings.
• Through the actions and attitudes of struggling individuals, the true costs of self-defeating organizational behavior are made manifest.
• At this stage, the need to control war to prevent it becoming a tragic and self-defeating activity demanded strong action.
• In the face of a self-defeating organizational behavior pattern, a person of this sort has little choice other than to fight.
• Why engage in artistic efforts at all if they are essentially futile and self-defeating and devoid of truth?
• So far as we could judge, the attitude of hospital administrators was a self-defeating mixture of overcaution in small matters and lack of vigour in important ones. Henry’s Demons
• None the less, we must admit to grave reservations about what passes for training in the typical self-defeating organization.
• He is counseled by a sports psychologist who helps him interpret and banish negative, self-defeating feelings.