ADJECTIVE
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acting to defeat its own purpose
it is self-defeating...to ignore the progress of events
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.