| 单词 | self-defeating |
| 例句 | By their very nature chemical controls are self-defeating, for they have been devised and applied without taking into account the complex biological systems against which they have been blindly hurled. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z From what I could gather, the recruitment attitude at the temple seemed to me to amount to a self-defeating waiting view ... an assumption that Allah would bring us more Muslims. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z But why should a germ evolve the apparently self-defeating strategy of killing its host? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That, too, would be self-defeating because the armed struggle, at least in the beginning, would not be the centerpiece of the movement. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The article claimed King’s decision “to divert the energies of the civil rights movement to the Vietnam issue is both wasteful and self-defeating.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z With that self-defeating thought looping in my head, I never caught the bar once that entire week. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z To help the boy overcome these self-defeating tendencies, Collins ordered a clock from Germany with a special ten-second timer, and he insisted that Bobby play with it to practice thinking and moving more rapidly. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The principle was not so important that the strategy should be used even when it was self-defeating, as Gandhi himself believed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z That seems especially puzzling and self-defeating, since a microbe that kills its host kills itself. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The problem, of course, is that embracing criminality—while an understandable response to the stigma—is generally self-defeating and destructive. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I always tried to be decent to the warders in my section; hostility was self-defeating. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Lanier was particularly scathing about remix culture, which he viewed as not only ethically dubious but also self-defeating in the long run. Jaron Lanier: the digital pioneer who became a web rebel –interview 2013-03-17T00:05:39Z How did this debate so quickly risk becoming stale, even self-defeating? American hustle: how Hollywood rips off women 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z There’s an inherent theatricality in the one-by-one revealing of his crazy tools, but at this point it’s almost self-defeating. Music Review: Wayne Horvitz, and Sax and Percussion, at the Stone 2010-04-08T22:12:00Z He could be punishing you in his own self-defeating way. He called me a slut but I want him 2013-04-25T00:00:00Z So his insistence on knocking both parties, even when his jibes at President Obama are clearly dutiful at best, seems oddly contrived, if not self-defeating. Critic’s Notebook: Comedy and Politics, Uneasy Bedfellows but Snuggling 2012-10-03T20:05:01Z This can ultimately become very unattractive and self-defeating, forcing women back into the swiping pool with low self-esteem and exacerbating the whole cycle. Does digital dating put women at an evolutionary disadvantage? 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z It’s an interesting, potentially provocative idea, but one that this film illustrates in the most self-defeating way imaginable, by reminding you of older, better movies. Fractious Family Mourns in ‘This Is Where I Leave You’ 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z But it eventually must give way to abundant evidence of Vincent McGee’s turbulent past and reckless, self-defeating path to the killing. ‘God’ll Cut You Down,’ a True Crime Book by John Safran 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z That kind of happiness is, for obvious reasons, self-defeating: it has the effect of pushing other people away. The Question at the Heart of “The Good Wife” 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Despite being a TV and movie star, she has no self-defeating body insecurities or, for that matter, any insecurities whatsoever. Hadley Freeman's 10 awesome women: from Katharine Hepburn to Miss Piggy 2013-04-22T15:38:00Z At times that serenity becomes self-defeating; some tracks will make you wonder if the recording studio’s water supply wasn’t dosed with CBD. The Playlist: Kane Brown Confronts Gun Violence, and 12 More New Songs 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Mark: We watched the punks, and anarchy and nihilism were self-defeating and all those people became commodities. Mark Mothersbaugh and Jerry Casale: Men of Devo 2010-06-23T08:00:00Z It’s a self-defeating form of exclusion, a determination not to share resources even if the ultimate result is that everyone suffers. ‘The Sum of Us’ Tallies the Cost of Racism for Everyone 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z “Now, that ambition can be a self-defeating prophecy, as we saw clearly.” Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly: 'Sometimes films need time to marinate' 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z In August 1971, enraged by what she saw as the self-defeating isolationism of feminists in a leftist art group she had joined, Lozano scribbled in her notebook, “Decide to boycott women.” Lee Lozano, Surely Defiant, Drops In 2011-01-09T03:00:04Z She was, after all, a feminist who satirised the overly solemn and self-defeating aspects of feminism, such as Betty Friedan's baffling determination to start fights with Gloria Steinem. Nora Ephron: how I'll miss her 2012-06-27T15:55:01Z Her recent past has mostly been defined by an inability to consider the self-defeating outcomes her rash actions could produce. ‘Game of Thrones’: 8 Questions for the Finale 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Yet for a “City Center Years” festival to present “Agon,” the most consequential work of the period, only in excerpt — that’s a self-defeating surprise, a curveball decision of the wrong kind. City Center’s Balanchine Festival Lacked a Balanchine Quality: Boldness 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z For all your intelligence, energy, originality, strength of character, and overt cheerfulness, you risk becoming a black hole of self-defeating negativity. “The Intern” Is a Very Strange Workplace Fantasy 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z It’s the first step toward changing destructive or self-defeating behaviors, and this approach forms the foundation of my latest book, “Stepping In, Stepping Out: Creating Stepfamily Rhythm.” Navigating the tricky waters of being a stepdad 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z “The Interview” mirrors their quest, in a touchingly self-defeating way. ‘The Interview,’ With James Franco and Seth Rogen, Is Back On 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z So you’re hardly helping an anxious person by joining them in this self-defeating spiral. Calm down! Anxiety is contagious 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, Apple’s decision to maintain total control over its own hardware was seen as self-defeating, as limiting its market share to the most devout true believers. Apple’s enormous insult 2012-09-13T18:02:00Z Carrying piles of one’s belongings is bizarrely self-defeating, especially if the idea is to substitute preparedness for neurosis. The Mirror: My Personal Baggage 2011-01-28T20:15:31Z Selling and rebooting in some poorer neighborhood, as Central Union Mission did, he argued, was self-defeating. The District’s HIV clinic was failing. This ‘old, straight white guy’ managed to save it. 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z Her perpetual striving to seem smarter and different is self-defeating and self-renewing—the perfect sitcom premise. Review: "Odd Mom Out" is a Tough, Refreshing Summer Satire 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z The Independent called it "well-meant but clunky" and described its mix of fact and fiction as "self-defeating". Diana play 'clunky' and 'clueless' 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z For years, the Academy’s documentary choices had been denounced for what the critic Owen Gleiberman described as a “self-defeating aesthetic of granola documentary correctness.” The Power of Documentaries on the Oscar Trail 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z If this sounds like frustrating, self-defeating behaviour, it's because we're frustrating, self-defeating people. Gimme gimme gimme: how to increase your willpower 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z Even when Mr. Babcock is in full self-defeating narrative mode, the rest of the band girds him with live-wire energy and breathless tempo. Up North, Pup Makes Freshly Mutating Punk 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z Her initial resistance to this makeover is depicted as petty, a matter of self-defeating scruples and proletarian lack of gumption. Review: ‘Dan Cody’s Yacht’ Sells Upward Mobility for Dummies 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Now we have Josh Karp, who teaches journalism at Northwestern, revisiting the image of Welles as a self-defeating perfectionist in a meticulously researched new book, “Orson Welles’s Last Movie.” The story of the final — and unfinished — work of Orson Welles 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z “The Choice” argues that this upbringing — along with the scrutiny of the White House years — contributed to a self-defeating secrecy and defensiveness. Review: ‘The Choice 2016’ Lets the Chips Fall Where They May on Clinton and Trump 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z Which oddly pleases him, particularly as it applies to this latest volume, which The Post calls “slapdash,” “sloppy” and “a self-defeating exercise.” Bret Easton Ellis, the political outrage machine who has never voted for president 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z At other times, his choices are dubious, self-defeating, tasteless, and even ludicrous. The Cinematic Merits and Flaws of Nate Parker’s “The Birth of a Nation” 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z And prejudice against blacks, Japanese-Americans and women, he argued, proved self-defeating, serving only to deny the country needed sources of strength. William L. O’Neill, a Historian Who Wrote About Radicals, Dies at 80 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z As usual, his character roams around town, getting into big, self-defeating tangles about minor issues. Larry David, Master of His Quarantine 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z That may appear pretentious, self-defeating, even contrary, but it's hard to dislike in our commercialised times when comedy has, in the duration of Kitson's career, become a huge, over-exploited commodity. Edinburgh fringe face-off: Stewart Lee v Nica Burns 2012-08-08T14:55:00Z Some of the edits were made for clear ideological reasons; others seem arbitrary and self-defeating. Dvdsdave Kehr: It?s Overlords vs. Lower Depths in a Future City 2010-11-20T19:15:00Z Even the pacing of the show is self-defeating. Theater Review: ?Leap of Faith,? With Ra?l Esparza at St. James Theater 2012-04-27T02:00:15Z It hardly seems to matter if the Republicans or the Democrats are in charge: they’re all seemingly addicted to this cruel, self-defeating war. World’s best places to get high 2012-08-13T03:00:00Z That may be, but the self-defeating ironies in this collection are inescapable. | Fashion Review: It?s Good to Know It?s Not All About Posing 2011-02-16T00:45:23Z Anxiety is, at its very root, demoralizing and self-defeating. Today's teens are anxious, and social media can play a role 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z The whole idea was to win control of territory so that Afghan government representatives could move in, but if these representatives made themselves more hated than the Taliban, the whole strategy was self-defeating. Little America by Rajiv Chandrasekaran - review 2012-07-20T21:55:03Z It doesn’t push its ambitions too hard, while engaging your sympathy for characters you hope will eventually set aside their self-defeating obsessions and, like enterprising little gerbils or hamsters, break free from their cages. Theater Review: Ethan Lipton’s ‘Red-Handed Otter,’ at the Cherry Lane Theater 2012-09-21T02:00:00Z “A wagging tongue bites itself”, reads the opening title card, a wink to the film’s twisting, intellectual, and ultimately self-defeating discussions about love. The 25 greatest summer films 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z "I think he was so panicked that it was not working that it was self-defeating in a way." Karen Green on life after suicide 2011-04-09T23:04:02Z In her novel, “Cinderella Ate My Daughter,” author Peggy Orenstein explores the ubiquitous princess culture and how confining young women to a “pink box” grooms them to become subservient, self-defeating adults. Can Disney fix its broken “Princess Culture”? 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z Despite its title, Andrew Delbanco’s “The War Before the War” isn’t so much about confrontation as it is about the earnest, and often self-defeating, methods used to avoid it. How Fugitive Slaves Exposed the Idea of the ‘United’ States as a Lie 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z “Captain America” is a reminder, at once successful and self-defeating, of the kind of fun that comics used to be. | 'Captain America': Hey, Brooklyn, Where Did You Get Those Muscles? 2011-07-21T12:00:01Z When you go into a date with that kind of expectation, it's self-defeating. The Science of Single: One Year's Worth of Dating Advice 2011-01-12T17:45:00Z Though the cast — especially Nichols, O’Keefe and Smith — is strong, and Cooper makes lovely stage pictures on the rusty platform, there’s something thin and self-defeating about the resulting circular logic. Review: In ‘Terra Firma,’ a Wee Wet Country on the Brink 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z “It’s why people keep throwing good money after bad, or stay in an abusive or self-defeating relationship way longer than they should,” she says. Why can’t law enforcement admit their mistakes? 2012-10-21T14:00:00Z He instinctively felt, as Tomkins wrote, that “the path of separatism within a culture is basically self-defeating.” Review | First the New Yorker profiled Romare Bearden. Then the artist and activist decided to tell his own story, in pictures. 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z The self-defeating ironies in this collection are inescapable. | Theyskens' Theory Wins! 2011-02-16T03:02:25Z This observation pungently expresses the problem with the “cult of optimism” — the ironic, self-defeating struggle that sabotages positivity when we try too hard. Positive thinking is for suckers! 2012-11-25T13:00:00Z This is why therapy exists: To help us recognize, explain and preempt our self-defeating behavior. Carolyn Hax: She’s emotionally starved, but finding nourishment isn’t the only piece 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z Not all cases are the same, and making casual allegations is easy yet self-defeating. When I met Kirk Douglas, did I ask if he’d assaulted Natalie Wood? No, and here’s why | Hadley Freeman 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z He was always obsessive and self-defeating about his genius and his work. ‘Like He Was Going to Live Forever’: Making Jerome Robbins’s Last Ballet 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z Yet using innocent pop songs like Perry Como’s “Magic Moments” is both too easy and self-defeating. Dance Review: Fall for Dance at City Center - Review 2011-11-06T22:15:14Z They represent the emotional baggage Casey and Aaron bring to the date, the fears and self-defeating impulses triggered by this initially awkward matchup. At ACT Theatre: A 'First Date' that really clicks 2012-03-30T22:08:04Z It seems to me not embarrassing or shameful but just self-defeating and a little sad to forego such pleasures in favor of reading a book that might just as easily be enjoyed by a child. Henry James and the Great Y.A. Debate 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z So instead of the self-defeating business of hoping against hope that Allen's latest will be a return to form, how about thinking of each new film as a short story? The critic's choice: Woody Allen's new film 2011-01-03T08:00:14Z In truth, there is no real enjoyment in mixing loud – it becomes self-defeating. Ask the indie professor: How loud is too loud? 2011-01-11T15:52:45Z The humor is self-defeating, though, since this wheezy romantic caper — with Tommy Lee Jones and Morgan Freeman as the rival suitors — inspires little more than melancholy reminiscences of Mr. Shelton’s earlier work. Review: ‘Just Getting Started’ Has Big Names, Not Big Laughs 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z The last thing any traditional woman wants to be accused of is appearing confrontational, even if accepting male power is self-defeating in the long run. Why women fight women 2012-11-27T19:40:01Z But theater’s primary public face wears a show-must-go-on smile, so there’s a weird and self-defeating disconnect, as if being supportive means pretending that these works are just as exciting as live stuff would be. Digital Theater Isn’t Theater. It’s a Way to Mourn Its Absence. 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z Moe’s humor is more universally astute when describing the depressive’s propensity for faulty reasoning, particularly in terms of negative self-attribution and self-defeating thoughts. The Funny Thing About Depression Is ... 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z In one sense, the journalist Billy Baker has undertaken a self-defeating task: to cure his loneliness by writing a book. ‘Loneliness Kills’: A Middle-Aged Dad Seeks Friendship 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z These accounts offer an intriguing counterpoint between optimism in hard times and self-defeating pessimism in relatively easy ones. 2010-02-17T03:22:00Z It seemed a rather tiring, and self-defeating, way to live. Raymond Blanc's Kitchen Secrets | TV review 2010-03-23T06:45:00Z Calls to literacy come in many forms, most of them smug and self-defeating. ‘Carsick,’ a Hitchhiking Memoir by John Waters 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z He called on the pharmaceutical industry to denounce Shkreli as a means of protecting its own business model; from an economic point of view, Shkreli’s strategy seemed self-defeating. Everyone Hates Martin Shkreli. Everyone Is Missing the Point 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z More trivially, the title of Martin Amis's essay collection, The War on Cliche, is self-defeating. Rules for writing: block that metaphor! 2013-05-23T14:40:46Z It all seems a bit childish and self-defeating, but then there is no shortage of evidence that singers can very often be a massive pain in the backside. When one frontman is as good as any other 2013-05-23T13:14:08Z Thirty years ago, the artist Scott Burton wrote that Ryan’s collages “remind us how self-defeating we are when we make distinctions between ‘major’ and ‘minor’ art.” Small Shows at the Metropolitan Museum 2010-08-05T22:21:00Z Twenty-four minutes of commercial time in an hour; what a self-defeating, greedy travesty. Comedy Central Should Hire a Woman to Replace John Stewart 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z This does not mean, however, that all reforms are inherently repressive or self-defeating. Criminal justice reform in the U.S. has a long history of repressive outcomes 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z Accepting marketing dictates and insinuations - which are aimed at separating you from your money - isn't "fun," it's stupid consumption and, for many, like the article writer apparently, self-defeating. ‘I Feel Pretty’ and the Rise of Beauty-Standard Denialism 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Cutting into or taking away recess time is counter-intuitive and self-defeating. Motherlode Blog: Students Who Lose Recess Are the Ones Who Need It Most 2014-02-13T14:34:52Z But these conversations quickly become self-defeating as one realises the colossal amount of Kafkaesque red tape that would have to be surmounted to make any progress. Why British film is all kitsch 'n' sink 2013-06-22T16:45:01Z Like being a centrist, it was once touted as a sensible compromise but is now viewed as a problematic and self-defeating. I am as devoted to Christmas as I am to Hanukah. No wonder my boys are confused | Hadley Freeman 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z There is something unmistakably tender about the way Andersson regards his mopey, weary, self-defeating characters, most of whom are as gray and lumpy as the clouds that hover over them. ‘About Endlessness’ Review: Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z Yet some Canadian progressives think it would be ultimately self-defeating, for their cause and for the continent, for like-minded Americans to decamp north. Canada Would Welcome Election Losers 2012-11-05T16:26:43Z This human support helps depressed people overcome loneliness and develop more effective strategies for dealing with self-defeating behavior, and encourages them to rediscover – or discover – connection, meaning and purpose. Drugs alone won't fix our epidemic of depression | James S Gordon 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z The enemy, in this case, are the members of a single internecine family, vis-à-vis one another and their own sorry, self-defeating souls. Review: Jeremy Irons and Lesley Manville Lead a Hard-Run ‘Long Day’s Journey’ 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z And yet, like many well-intentioned policies that arise in the wake of tragedy, the war on wildfires has proved to be self-defeating. Are the American West’s Wildfires Inevitable? 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z As Gordon’s nearest and dearest rally to provide support, he sinks into self-defeating depression and wonders plaintively about all the songs he’ll never have the chance to write. Review: ‘A New Brain’ Gambols Tunefully Through a Vale of Death 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z She writes about a self-defeating form of exclusion, a determination not to share resources even if the ultimate result is that everyone suffers. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z "Celebrity is a self-defeating construct," says Dustin Kidd, a sociologist at Temple University and the author of Pop Culture Freaks: Identity, Mass Media, and Society. 'How did we let this happen?' The Amy Winehouse question and social science's take on modern fame 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z In reality, we all live between the spaces and must negotiate changes; fighting against this is self-defeating. The fluidity of "The Queen's Gambit" is its secret weapon 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z Any attempt to copy Graham is self-defeating, sure to pale next to the real thing elsewhere on the program. Creating for Martha Graham’s Company, Competing With the Great Mother 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z America has one of the most self-defeating and racist penal systems in the world and Gil's twice done time for minor drug offences. Gil Scott-Heron: poet, campaigner and America's rough healer 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z The volume can be self-defeating when the local bar is set so high, and it’s as though classics equal Shakespeare, period, and nothing else happened in more than 2,000 years of world drama. Perspective | Why is Washington theater so predictable? 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z And it’s a kind of capitalism that’s totally self-defeating because it’s so narrow. Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class 2013-05-12T16:00:00Z It implies a cliche or a rut and yet all humans are dysfunctional to some degree, whether it's the raging alcoholic or the guy who's just a bit self-defeating. Absolute beginners 2011-07-15T23:03:00Z Providing comparative sources on your own profile is extraordinarily self-defeating. Tiger selfies – and other Tinder tropes we’d like to see gone 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z Boris Johnson has called for anti-homeless spikes outside a luxury block of London flats to be removed immediately, describing them as "ugly, self-defeating and stupid". Boris Johnson calls for removal of anti-homeless spikes 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z While this might sound a little self-defeating, Mr. Melillo is determined to design things exactly his way. On the Runway Blog: The Return of Tony Melillo's T's 2012-01-12T19:08:08Z In love, the real me was disheveled, hypervigilant, erratic, and self-defeating. Is romance and recovery as difficult as it seems? A rape victim reflects on the triumphs and traumas of her dating life 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z I’m only trying to explain why blaming yourself isn’t necessarily a self-defeating thing to do. Sophie Heawood: why I won’t condemn Chrissie Hynde 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z The result, sadly, is a discourse of denial that traps the novel in an illusory and self-defeating antiquity. Novels about the Internet can still be compelling 2013-01-19T23:00:00Z This was productive, to a point — all those voices and instruments encouraged the beatific heave — but it often felt like a product of torpid indecision, unsustainable and self-defeating. Critics? Choice: New CDs by the New Pornographers and the Hold Steady 2010-05-02T20:55:00Z Otherwise we run the risk of letting algorithmic “black boxes” propel us into a self-defeating cycle in which AI leads to more-biased humans, who in turn create increasingly biased algorithms. Humans Absorb Bias from AI—And Keep It after They Stop Using the Algorithm 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z “I think that there is a self-defeating tailspin we get into when we get in trouble,” Graham said, referring to both soccer and society. What’s in a game? ‘Dear England’ probes the nation through the lens of its soccer team 2023-10-21T04:00:00Z I’m hard-pressed to recall a budget fight so politically self-defeating as the one now cleaving the House — waged for stupid reasons by stupid people. Opinion: The House Republicans' shutdown politics are dumb and dumber 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z The obstacle was the self-defeating thoughts that dominated her mind and eroded her confidence. Former UCLA standout Lilia Vu refocused and found confidence, joy and No. 1 ranking 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z “This idea of rent control is not really viable, and it’s really kind of self-defeating,” he added. City Council candidates pitch ways to make Seattle more affordable 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z But despite her degree, Lucy's internal experience was exhausting and she was left feeling "like a lazy, stupid, self-defeating failure." A new study shows the benefits of an accurate ADHD diagnosis — so why can't women get one? 2023-07-16T04:00:00Z Trump has acted in inexplicably suspicious and self-defeating ways since he first ran for president in 2016. The legal dominoes finally start to fall against Trump 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z Robert E. Lucas Jr., a contrarian Nobel laureate in economics who undergirded conservative arguments that government intervention in fiscal policy is often self-defeating, died on Monday in Chicago. Robert E. Lucas Jr., Nobel-Winning Conservative Economist, Dies at 85 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z This amnesia, which means there is never accountability, licenses the war machine to economically disembowel the country and drive the Empire into one self-defeating conflict after another. The intoxication of war 2023-05-07T04:00:00Z Experts called some of Trump’s ideas impractical, reckless, self-defeating, potentially illegal and even dangerous. Trump touts authoritarian vision for second term: ‘I am your justice’ 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z That skepticism, in turn, adds another stratum to the self-defeating chip on KDL’s shoulder, especially when it comes to Black power. Column: Bravos for Mark Ridley-Thomas, boos for Kevin de León. A double standard? 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z Trump has acted in inexplicably suspicious and self-defeating ways since he first ran for president in 2016. The legal dominoes finally start to fall against Trump 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z As a result, Professor Lucas said, government economic policies can be self-defeating by failing to achieve their intended outcomes. Robert E. Lucas Jr., Nobel-Winning Conservative Economist, Dies at 85 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z Unions harmed themselves through their self-defeating racism and were further weakened by a changing economy. Why Poverty Persists in America 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z In practice, a star wielding this level of authority with little regard for anything besides his own self-interest can lead an organization to cater to its top talent, often in self-defeating ways. Analysis | Are trade requests good for the NBA? Depends on whom you ask. 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z Sununu says he is confident that over the next year of campaigning Republicans will conclude both that it is time to move on from Trump and that any third-party bid would be self-defeating. GOP wants candidates to pledge support for nominee — but some resist 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z Zambia is ground zero of China’s self-defeating obstinacy. Opinion | China’s suspected spy balloon is the perfect symbol of its clumsiness 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z He’s no better at abandoning self-defeating behaviors than are his clients, but that he ought to see a therapist himself is a suggestion no one makes. 'Shrinking' is the anti-'Ted Lasso,' built on a taxingly unlikable protagonist 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z It’s a reality that has long been lamented by Black pastors and Black families as self-destructive and self-defeating. Column: In Monterey Park and now Half Moon Bay, the pain of hearing it's 'one of our own' 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z “This Western poverty of ideology has proven self-defeating when we must deal with an ideologically charged world,” Mr. Yu said. Navy intel chief: China building for war ‘in every area’ 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z Whether he can control his self-defeating antics long enough to reach the final — as he did at Wimbledon last year — remains the question. No hard feelings as Novak Djokovic is back at Australian Open 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z For all the self-defeating chaos they recently sowed on the floor of the House, you can’t quite rule out the possibility that Republicans learn from their mistakes. Opinion | Does ‘get out the vote’ have to mean get out the partisans? 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z The self-defeating decision to exit its largest market, the European Union, continues to depress the country’s economic prospects, and it remains the weakest of the Group of Seven economies. Opinion | 2023 could be the year that exposes populism for the sham that it is 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z The good news, according to Ford, is that con artists’ success at duping others tends to make them overconfident, so they “often engage in self-defeating behavior that ultimately trips them up.” Opinion | Like all good con artists, George Santos knew his marks 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z Heedlessness is self-defeating for the Biden administration, which has faced an unprecedented flood of illegal border crossers over the past year, including waves of Haitians. Opinion | A cholera outbreak compounds Haiti’s agony 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z But, back to your friend’s observation: Denying yourself an entire category of people — one that almost by definition won’t reenact your family trauma on you — seems like a permanent, self-defeating fix to a temporary problem. Advice | Carolyn Hax: When dating people from good families just feels bad 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z I had never really imagined I’d be able to do a scene across from someone of that caliber, but that was my own self-defeating s—. How Brian Tyree Henry turns his personal grief into art with 'Causeway' 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z “The war as it is presently being waged is self-defeating in approach.” Don Luce, Activist Who Helped End the Vietnam War, Dies at 88 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z But he also has an intensely pragmatic streak and is uncomfortable with the party’s activist left wing, whose approach he has argued is unrealistic and self-defeating. Hakeem Jeffries, Pressing to Lead Democrats, Marks a Generational Shift 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z To beat Trump, an opponent would have to go after Trump hammer and tong, battering his ego to trigger him into narcissistic, self-defeating, unhinged rages. Opinion | Trump is out for vengeance — and to protect himself from prosecution 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z Denmark is pursuing what might be one of the most self-defeating immigration policies among wealthy countries. Opinion | Canada’s expansion of immigration sets a model the U.S. should follow 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z “The existing approach is morally unconscionable, legally indefensible and politically self-defeating,” Philip Alston wrote. The U.N. is mulling another mission to Haiti. Haitians are skeptical. 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z “It is unacceptable, outrageous and self-defeating to put it on the back burner. Indeed, many of today’s conflicts are linked with growing climate chaos.” Tackling a Mega Crisis Amid Many Big Crises 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z “It is the defining issue of our age. It is the central challenge of our century. It is unacceptable, outrageous and self-defeating to put it on the back burner.” U.N. climate conference spurs ‘gloom and doom’ predictions 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z That’s meant to be the chilling upshot of “Holy Spider,” a capably acted, resourcefully made and ultimately self-defeating thriller about Hanaei’s crimes and the widespread culture of misogyny from which they sprang. Review: The serial-killer thriller ‘Holy Spider’ gets stuck in its own morally murky web 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z In blog posts and videos infused with a professorial — some say lecturing — demeanor, he warns that cutting off relations with the United States would be self-defeating. China’s Chest-Thumping Nationalism Now Goes Too Far, Movement’s Godfather Says 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z The general question hanging over the frantic EU deliberations is whether any regulatory changes meant to curb gas prices would ultimately be self-defeating by encouraging consumption of the fuel. EU energy ministers seek way forward for more energy unity 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z “It may be self-defeating to say the election is rigged if you have to actually get people out to vote.” GOP’s Georgia challenge: Persuading Trump backers to vote 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z The cast around James and Davis has cycled at an alarming and self-defeating rate, with newcomers Lonnie Walker IV and Patrick Beverley thrust into starting roles on opening night. Analysis | Stephen Curry and LeBron James are headed in different directions 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z "The police need strengthened and tougher powers to match the rise in self-defeating protest tactics and that's what the Public Order Bill will do." Home Secretary to crack down on disruptive protests with new bill 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z Overemployment can also become a self-defeating cycle if workers lose sight of their financial goals. Advice | Some remote workers are doing two jobs at once. They say it’s fair. 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z It is not a “self-defeating idea,” as stated in the Oct. Opinion | The veto was a feature of the U.N. Security Council, not a bug 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z Ms Truss also reiterated her plan not to go ahead with a rise in corporation tax on businesses which she said would be "completely self-defeating". It's fair to give wealthiest more money back - Truss 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z Skeptics of the organizing campaign have argued that forming a union is self-defeating because firms will lose business to nonunion rivals with lower labor costs. Architects at a New York Firm Form the Industry’s Only Private-Sector Union 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z “I try not to think about it. It’s self-defeating and doesn’t help me remain vigilant about why I’m fighting.” For Uyghurs, U.N. Report on China’s Abuses is a Long-Awaited Vindication 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z But the push for ideological supremacy is self-defeating. Opinion | We wanted to play Bunny Kingdom. Gen Con wanted to talk about abortion. 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z Florida has a tradition of self-defeating and frankly embarrassing assaults on higher education. Perspective | DeSantis aims to scare academics. Unfortunately, it’s working. 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z The progressive wing of the Democratic Party can sometimes seem self-defeating these days, focused on internal purity rather than policy changes. A Functional Congress? Yes. 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z The more insurmountable the crisis becomes, the more we, like our prehistoric ancestors, will retreat into self-defeating responses, violence, magical thinking and denial. We won't be the first civilization to collapse — but we may well be the last 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z In some respects, China’s military spectacle has been self-defeating, said Fan Shih-ping, a politics professor at National Taiwan Normal University. As China Vows More Military Exercises, Taiwan Is Undeterred 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z He told his colleagues it was potentially “deeply damaging” and “self-defeating to do anything that casts doubt on our rock-solid commitment to NATO.” Senate votes to approve NATO membership for Sweden and Finland 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z "It's self-defeating to handcuff renewable energy development to massive new oil and gas extraction," Brett Hartl, government affairs director at the Center for Biological Diversity, said in a statement. Here’s what’s in the Senate’s $369 billion for climate and energy 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z But the problem is that preservationism in this context is likely to be self-defeating. On ‘Yellowstone’ and in Montana, the same question: Who owns the West? 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z “It’s self-defeating to handcuff renewable energy development to massive new oil and gas extraction.” From dazzled to doubtful: New U.S. climate deal draws range of reactions 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Germany still will not reverse its self-defeating phaseout of nuclear energy. Opinion | The West’s Ukraine strategy is in danger of failing 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z The only sane course is to reject the whole arms race that is so self-defeating for all of us. An endless arms race: How to fight the NRA's absurd solution to mass shootings 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z Michael Wirth, chairman and CEO of Chevron, sent Biden a letter via email on Tuesday that said the president’s own words have been self-defeating in terms of encouraging companies to boost their output. Biden, Chevron chief trade sharp words over gas prices 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z They can continue to struggle in the rat race of Chinese society, making little progress in an approach known as neijuan, or “involution,” the process of turning inward in a self-defeating competition with others. ‘Zero covid’ has many in China dreaming of leaving 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z Instead, she is doing the opposite, reaching into your business to try to change who you are and what you do in a joyless — and, always, self-defeating — act of protection. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Girlfriend thinks hugging other women is ‘inappropriate’ 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z Central banks also have a credible record of managing inflation, which helps keep self-defeating inflationary expectations in check. Global Growth Will Be Choked Amid Inflation and War, World Bank Says 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z It was a self-defeating policy, which meant that West Indies often picked weakened sides. The five factors behind New Zealand's Test transformation 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z “This bill is self-defeating,” Thomas’s organization, Louisiana Right to Life, tweeted this month. Antiabortion forces split over bills to prosecute those who get procedure 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z “This agreement will halt a decadeslong race to the bottom in corporate taxation around the globe - a competition that has proven self-defeating,” she said. Yellen warns Europeans about working with China, urges unity 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z “This agreement will halt a decadeslong race to the bottom in corporate taxation around the globe — a competition that has proven self-defeating,” she said. Yellen warns Europeans about working with China, urges unity 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z He’s canny, hardworking, relentless and often ruthless — a populist without Trump’s self-defeating flaws. Column: Ron DeSantis is setting the agenda for the GOP, and Democrats should worry 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z Lowering your expectations is dangerous and ultimately self-defeating. Crime novelist Don Winslow imagines Trump behind bars — but will it happen? 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z They also say the guidelines are self-defeating because they give policymakers an incentive to share their views with journalists while declining to be named. Lagarde tells ECB policymakers to hold back criticism, leaks - sources 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z They are immovable props, the parasitic mandarins of power vomited up in the dying days of any empire, including ours, leaping from one self-defeating catastrophe to the next. Pimps of war: Neocons who fueled 20 years of carnage in the Middle East are back for more 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z Against this backdrop, Jackson’s comments this past week are best read as the self-defeating triumph of a vacuous form of originalism. Perspective | If every judge is an originalist, originalism is meaningless 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z That perspective eventually condemned him to a self-defeating doom. Column: George Gascón and Todd Spitzer are more alike than you think. Hubris unites them 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z The desperate measures to stave off an economic crisis are self-defeating. Democrats won't oppose the war state: Are they the lesser evil — or the more effective one? 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z A fantasy capitalism that magically balances the interests of workers, investors, communities and shareholders has a strong allure, but pursuing it is a self-defeating strategy — and rooted in political despair. Opinion | I Wouldn’t Bet on the Kind of Democracy Big Business Is Selling Us 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z I would guess that's Trump's pathetic attempt at trying to clean up his earlier comment but it's incredibly lame and self-defeating. Donald Trump's having an awful week — and it's only Wednesday 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z Others warned President Biden that issuing mandates from the federal government might be self-defeating, in that it could turn vaccination into a partisan issue. COVID-19 fights bleed into larger ‘anti-vaxx’ movement, threaten longtime vaccine rules in schools 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z Walking away out of frustration or disillusionment is self-defeating. Opinion | Giving up on voting rights now would be unconscionable 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z This complacent and self-defeating policy has reduced U.S. diplomatic leverage over Iran. How to counter Iran’s growing ties to China 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z Plus, she said, it’d be “self-defeating” for Democrats to stop working with Hawley, given his influence among conservatives on all things tech — and their need for Republican votes to pass most bills. Analysis | Josh Hawley was Democrats’ go-to ally in the battle against Big Tech. Then came Jan. 6. 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z Americans of all political stripes, including a majority of Republicans, favor extending those opportunities to dreamers, understanding that it is self-defeating to deny them the chance of a better life. Opinion | Opening the door of opportunity for ‘dreamers’ 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z He said Trump's obsession over his loss is "absolutely unhelpful," to the GOP, adding that "When I talk to voters, I am very blunt with them. I say, 'Stop being self-defeating. Get out and vote." Wisconsin election "audit" run by conservative group finds no evidence of fraud 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Goodman at Ohio State University said imposing sneaky surcharges is ultimately self-defeating for businesses such as Pizza Hut. Column: Should you pay an extra fee just for being a Californian? Pizza Hut thinks so 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z The goal is to play disciplined football with clean execution and avoid self-defeating mistakes such as penalties. Patience helps Wake Forest, Pitt build for ACC title shot 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z Even my daily reading became a self-defeating slog, whole pages slipping by without my remembering them. How Scribbling in the Margins Transformed My Reading 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z “Most psychological problems center on incorrectly appraising life’s stresses, reasoning on the basis of false assumptions and jumping to self-defeating conclusions,” Dr. Beck told People magazine in 1986. Aaron Beck, psychiatrist who developed cognitive therapy, dies at 100 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z But such passivity, he felt, was becoming self-defeating. How the American Right Fell in Love With Hungary 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z Energy analysts warned that such moves could be self-defeating, and on Thursday the department backpedaled. An energy crisis is gripping the world, with potentially grave consequences 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z It is a case study in how perceived self-interest can be self-defeating. Opinion | Bill Gates on fighting covid globally: Expect long campaigns in difficult territory 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z The truth is that in a two-party system, voters have only two choices, so protest votes are self-defeating, as is sitting out elections or supporting the opposition to scare your favored side into better behavior. Democrats continue to struggle with men of color 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z The first dent was a major U-turn on getting all primary school pupils back to school, and then there were self-defeating battles with Marcus Rashford over free meals in the holidays. Cabinet reshuffle: Where did it go wrong for Gavin Williamson? 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, the horrors this “shock and awe” crew unleashed did not shock the country enough to stamp out the mania of this self-defeating streak of hyper-masculinity. Opinion | Manning Up, Letting Us Down 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z They worry the new rules will be self-defeating. Biden gets tough on unvaccinated ‘minority’ with mandates, pivots from Afghanistan mess 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z Some pro-vaccine Republicans say the backlash and potential legal fights might be self-defeating. White House: Companies that flout Biden’s vaccine mandate face ‘significant’ fines 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z Policies that focus on one species in isolation can sometimes be myopic and self-defeating, says Anders Dahlberg, a professor of mycology at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala. Flora, fauna, and … funga? The case for a third "F" 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z And a refusal to deploy temporary and targeted interventions to enable economic recovery is self-defeating. Staff shortages could last two years, says CBI 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z Clarke didn't throw any self-defeating curve balls with his selection that night - and still they lost. Actions, not words, needed by Scotland 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Hope can be a futile, pitiful, self-defeating and dangerous thing – if it is not accompanied by action. As the right ramps up the cruelty and dread, it's time to stay clear-headed — and fight back 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z It seems like a bit of a self-defeating move for Games Workshop, considering how the work of fans helps to draw people into Warhammer, and ultimately buy its tabletop figures and video games. Warhammer’s new subscription streaming service is coming to iOS, Android, and smart TVs 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z But some within the community acknowledge that its hostile approach to outsiders and some athletes is self-defeating. The ‘gymternet’: gymnastics’ devoted, sometimes toxic fans 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z He also branded those who took part in Saturday's demonstrations "selfish" and "self-defeating", saying the protests "only risk the lockdowns running further." Australia Covid: Anti-lockdown protesters condemned 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z Prime minister Scott Morrison called the anti-lockdown protests in Sydney reckless and self-defeating. Covid live: UK health secretary apologises over ‘cower’ tweet; policing minister sorry over border delays 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z “It is ineffective and, in the aggregate, self-defeating.” Russia’s most aggressive ransomware group disappeared. It’s unclear who disabled them. 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z The findings make clear what many have already argued: The rise of “wolf warrior” diplomacy threatens to squander the opportunity presented to China by four years of erratic and self-defeating American diplomacy under Trump. The Man Behind China’s Aggressive New Voice 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z Sinema's sanctimonious declarations of meaningless "support" for bills that she's blocking from the floor isn't just bizarre trolling — it's also self-defeating. Kyrsten Sinema's run out of excuses: Supreme Court leaves Senate Democrats with little choice 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z In February, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden laid the blame with the EU, calling the restrictions on musicians "absurd and self-defeating". UK stars call on government to act over post-Brexit touring 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z University of California, Berkeley, economic historian Brad DeLong argues that Xi’s centralization of power is self-defeating. China and America are stuck in a dangerous standoff 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z It would be self-defeating, however, to try to either scale up or replicate a DDS or a Parque de la Papa. These Alternative Economies Are Inspirations for a Sustainable World 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z In February, Mr Dowden laid the blame with the EU, calling the restrictions on musicians "absurd and self-defeating". Will UK bands start touring in Liechtenstein? 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z By changing these self-defeating patterns, therapists hope to improve symptoms of depression and anxiety. Something Bothering You? Tell It to Woebot. 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z This cycle is “self-defeating at best, and grievously harmful at worst.” Review | How overpolicing causes Black ‘rebellion’ — not the other way around 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z They methodically trace the nuances of the era’s prickly political climate, creating a sympathetic portrait of Foucault’s promotion of a damaging and — for a thinker who fruitfully explored power and exploitation — self-defeating philosophical turn. Review: How a California acid trip made Michel Foucault a neoliberal 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z American Jews need to find a way to support Israel without being enablers of its most self-defeating policies. Op-Ed: What can we do to help the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Stay out of it 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z However, I believe the proposed World Trade Organization strategy is self-defeating and will lead us into an interminable maelstrom of squabbles. Opinion | Patent waivers for coronavirus vaccines are not a good idea 2021-05-09T04:00:00Z The team insists it may be considering names that the surveys didn’t include, which would seem to be self-defeating. Perspective | One name stands out as a new moniker for the Washington Football Team 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z UK culture secretary Oliver Dowden has previously labelled the barriers facing British musicians who want to tour in the EU as "absurd and self-defeating". Arts venues urge PM to act over post-Brexit touring 'crisis' 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z He said a "me-first" approach would be self-defeating because it would encourage hoarding and prolong the pandemic. Coronavirus: WHO chief criticises 'shocking' global vaccine divide 2021-04-10T04:00:00Z “The Chinese are sending very mixed signals to the Taiwanese people and I would characterize that as self-defeating,” Wu said. Taiwan foreign minister says China sending ‘mixed signals’ 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z “Psilocybin has been shown to make that change. People can become unstuck, get past self-defeating patterns and addictions.” Denver dabbles with magic mushrooms, but using them to treat mental health disorders remains underground 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z But she does not address the question of whether any such space war would be inherently self-defeating. Readers Respond to the November 2020 Issue 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z Corporations know these moral purity tests are, for us, self-defeating. The contradictions of "cancel culture": Where elite liberalism goes to die 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z "To divert the energies of the civil rights movement to the Vietnam issue is both wasteful and self-defeating," the New York Times insisted. Joe Biden echoes MLK's call to save America's soul. But is that even possible? 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z The idea of spending government funds to preserve or create domestic manufacturing jobs has a well-documented political appeal, especially among blue-collar workers, even as economists insisted that it was futile or self-defeating. The Biden Team Wants to Transform the Economy. Really. 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z Similarly, the city of New Orleans struggles to coexist with the Mississippi River through an ever more elaborate system of levees and drainage, an arrangement that can prove self-defeating. Review | Why humanity can’t be trusted to repair its own environmental damage 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z Speaking in the House of Commons last week, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said the barriers facing British musicians who want to tour in the EU are "absurd and self-defeating". Music stars raise pressure over EU touring 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z The barriers facing British musicians who want to tour in the EU are "absurd and self-defeating", UK culture secretary Oliver Dowden has said. Culture secretary Oliver Dowden calls EU touring barriers 'absurd' 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z This will mean, above all, scaling back punitive and self-defeating tariffs and technological barriers, slowing the arms race with China, and abandoning efforts to encircle the mainland with a hostile ring of military alliances. Joe Biden’s China conundrum: To make progress, he'll have to get past the Trump disaster 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z That level of self-defeating stupidity is a solidly progressive flaw. Forget about a GOP crack-up: Republicans rally around a defeated Trump because they understand power 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z In this and in many other instances, the commissioners’ resolution was self-defeating. Editorial Roundup: New England 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z Both, he said, feel disdained by those elites, who dismiss their views as racist, ignorant or unwittingly self-defeating. To Understand Red-State America, He Urges a Look at Red-State Israel 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z For populist policy reforms to succeed, populists — especially those on the right — need to drop their naïve and self-defeating pretensions of “dismantling the administrative state.” Opinion | Trump Needed the ‘Boneheads’ More Than He Knew 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z Some in Hong Kong questioned whether the resignations were self-defeating; the government will now be able to more easily pass repressive laws. Opinion | China strikes its worst blow yet against autonomy and rule of law in Hong Kong 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z His wafer-thin understanding of presidential leadership contributes to his most self-defeating misapprehension: that he's only the president of the red states. Time to dump the presidential dilettante — he's a cruel and incompetent failure 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z They remain confident that Trump’s strategy of dismissing concern over the virus, or blaming it on a conspiracy by the media and political opponents, will be self-defeating. President Trump falsely declares coronavirus is ‘ending’ as virus rates spike and financial markets dip 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z Picking up on a theme of his National Book Award-winning history of the CIA, “Legacy of Ashes,” Weiner highlights the self-defeating hubris that often accompanied the use of this weapon. Review | The 75-year political war between the United States and Russia 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z "Twenty-three people were shot in El Paso for just being Latin and you don't care so you're gonna vote for this braggadocio president? I just feel like it's self-defeating and selfish," Leguizamo said. John Leguizamo: Latinos voting for Trump, GOP is 'like roaches for Raid' 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z His aides knew the choice was self-defeating: No more online ads meant no more finding new donors. How Joe Biden Became the Unlikeliest of Online Fund-Raising Superstars 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z That’s a self-defeating outcome and the very opposite of the announced goals to save American jobs. Editorial Roundup: US 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z Democrats' self-defeating, one-step-at-a-time focus is the exact opposite of the long-term strategy Republicans have pursued for decades. "Pack" the Supreme Court? Absolutely 100% yes — it's the only way to save democracy 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z The dehumanization and trauma that accompany incarceration, Wilson said, is ultimately self-defeating for everyone. New film explores the true cost of keeping brilliant minds behind bars 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z "But to do this in such a routinely chest-beating way seems self-defeating." Idles: 'We'd love to do a zorb gig' 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z “Such ‘vaccinationalism’ is not only unfair, it is self-defeating,” he says. United Nations 75th general assembly – live updates 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z Several analysts said Republican opposition to federal aid for metropolitan areas was self-defeating because GOP-led states and counties need help, too. Analysis | Trump’s hostility to cities threatens to worsen the recession 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z “That’s demoralizing for the police, but it’s also self-defeating,” she continued. Antifa violence backed by ‘powerful political entities’ who need to be exposed to stop it: Lara Logan 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z “Who would want to agree trade deals with a country that doesn’t implement international treaties? It would be a desperate and ultimately self-defeating strategy.” Brexit back in crisis as UK threatens to undermine divorce pact 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z "This just shows how awkward, contradictory and self-defeating all of this is," he said. Trump admin rejects global effort to develop and distribute coronavirus vaccine because WHO involved 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z “This just shows how awkward, contradictory and self-defeating all of this is,” he said. U.S. says it won’t join WHO-linked effort to develop, distribute coronavirus vaccine 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z America’s cruel, arbitrary, capricious, corrupt and self-defeating immigration laws keep out countless people just like him, hurting us as a nation and wrecking human lives. Perspective | Trump treats naturalization like a game show prize 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z Ultimately, restricting testing could be self-defeating, because it could skew the numbers and create a perception that rates of infection are higher. Officials change COVID testing advice, bewildering experts 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z Some of them are self-defeating, but others are occasions for joy: the absorption of a hobby, the writing of a poem, speeding on a Harley, the slow assembly of a collection of records or shells. The Mysterious Life of Birds Who Never Come Down 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z "For the U.S. to terminate its relationship with the WHO in the middle of a pandemic is going to create an endless stream of self-defeating moments." Trump admin rejects global effort to develop and distribute coronavirus vaccine because WHO involved 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z “For the U.S. to terminate its relationship with the WHO in the middle of a pandemic is going to create an endless stream of self-defeating moments.” U.S. says it won’t join WHO-linked effort to develop, distribute coronavirus vaccine 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z And Mueller, the tale’s faltering hero, was made for another time, his impulses as honorable as they were self-defeating. Review | Trump tried to shut him down, but Robert Mueller was his own worst enemy 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z “Right now, we continue to see a severe and uncontrolled spread of this virus, and it would be self-defeating to reopen schools as usual for in-person instruction,” Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo said. Houston-area schools to stay closed until at least Sept. 8 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z “Completely self-defeating act that bears the hallmark of a government so arrogant it really believes it is above scrutiny,” Lisa Nandy, the opposition Labour Party’s spokeswoman on foreign affairs, tweeted. Report on Russian meddling in UK politics to be published 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z But I no longer see it as self-defeating to call myself an outsider in a man’s world. Opinion | The white man’s path is a rut for the rest of us 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z “It is so self-defeating. It undermines our credibility to pursue justice and rule of law, and the prevention of atrocity crimes overseas,” former ambassador Scheffer said. Srebrenica 25 years on: how the world lost its appetite to fight war crimes 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z But Barrah and others in Jericho argue such a step will prove self-defeating for Israel as it may spark unrest. 'Annexation will suffocate us': Jericho's Palestinians fear being cut off 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z However, such a view would be self-defeating, believes Quarry One Eleven founder Alistair Maclenan, who is the outgoing chair of the British Association of Remote Sensing Companies. UK industry loses out in European satellite bids 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z The problem is that this same degree of rank incompetence and self-defeating capriciousness is also evident in his governance. So much for the "Death Star": After Tulsa and West Point, wheels are coming off Trump campaign 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z Now, they see his behavior as self-defeating, and his bursts of both anger and self-praise as futile against an invisible enemy like the virus and a protest movement he’s shown little sympathy for. Does Trump Want to Fight for a Second Term? His Self-Sabotage Worries Aides 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z The behavior of Trump, and of like-minded governors operating with his encouragement, is self-defeating, for it delays the restoration of commerce and the return to normal that countries around the world are now savoring. Opinion | A president who promised to put ‘America First’ instead turned us into this 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z “Don’t be self-defeating and copy and paste the same thing into 100 job applications. That is not the right approach.” Millennial Money: How to stand out in this tough job market 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z Influential Michigan Republicans are growing alarmed by the president’s prospects and have taken steps to steer him away from what they acknowledge is his self-defeating conduct. In Seeking to Hold Michigan, Trump Can Be His Own Worst Enemy 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z Destroying the property of innocent people is wrong and, as a form of political protest, it is usually self-defeating. Opinion | The death of George Floyd reveals a sick brotherhood of the badge 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z And layoffs can be self-defeating by deepening the economic damage. Editorial Roundup: New England 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z But it drew immediate derision from many in the British news media as being ill timed, self-centered and self-defeating. Harry and Meghan Cut Off U.K. Tabloids 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z “I never assert my own design aesthetic on the designers because it would be self-defeating,” Gunn tells The Times in a phone interview from his home in Manhattan. 'Every night at 7 o'clock I burst into tears': TV mentor Tim Gunn is freaked out too 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z Susan L. Shirk, the chair of the 21st Century China Center at the University of California, San Diego, said she worried about the “nasty, unseemly, self-defeating” tit-for-tat between the two countries. China Announces That It Will Expel American Journalists 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z What they meant by immaturity, in this case, was not irresponsible or self-defeating behavior, but rather run-of-the-mill goofing around of the kind that almost everyone engages in from time to time. Players 2020: Collin Morikawa is the PGA Tour's most polished 23-year-old - Golf Digest 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z It’s self-defeating to use immigration as a political whipping boy, which will only put Mr. Mulvaney’s self-evident prescription further out of reach. Opinion | Trump says America is ‘full.’ Mick Mulvaney lets slip that isn’t true. 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z He engineered the speech to force his opponents to react in potentially self-defeating ways. Opinion | The key impeachment verdict is in. And no, it didn’t come from the Senate. 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Hollywood cannot cling to its benighted — and self-defeating — desire to stay a white male club forever, despite the fact that women have always made up half the audience. Opinion | Starr Chamber: The Sequel 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z The efforts were risky and possibly self-defeating, and Mr. Flynn’s gambit ultimately failed. Prosecutors Ask That Michael Flynn Get Prison Time 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z “But there is a smart way to counter them - and a self-defeating way. Trump’s approach is demonstrably the latter.” Biden, Sanders flex foreign policy muscles in 2020 U.S. Democratic race after Iran strike 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z "There's always a danger of being self-defeating in this space," said Craig Beaumont, FSB director of external affairs and advocacy. National living wage to rise by 6.2% in April 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z When multiplied into the tens of thousands across the Alps, snowmakers become something of a self-defeating invention: they worsen and sustain the climate problems they’re supposed to solve. Snow machines and fleece blankets: inside the ski industry’s battle with climate change 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z The R.S.S. and other Hindu nationalists have claimed that the efforts to assuage the Kashmiris created a self-defeating dynamic. Blood and Soil in Narendra Modi’s India 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z But the underlying concern shared by Democratic and Republican presidents was that fighting with Israel on settlements, untethered from a breakthrough in the peace process, would be self-defeating. Perspective | Let’s not pretend Washington ever really tried to stop Israeli settlements 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Friday's letter critiqued the Select Committee's efforts as self-defeating. Climate activists turn up the heat on elected Dems, criticize inaction 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z It is equally apparent that it is entirely self-defeating. Can South America Produce a Superclub? 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z By the afternoon I am in a dark and self-defeating mood. Glass half-full: how I learned to be an optimist in a week 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z And that is why there feels something so self-defeating about Pochettino’s departure. Pochettino pays price for Spurs’ failure of renewal but Mourinho is a big gamble | Jonathan Wilson 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z His unilateral, nationalistic, self-defeating approach threatens deepening trouble across the board next year. Donald Trump has dragged America's global reputation to an all-time low | Simon Tisdall 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z The writer’s decision is not necessarily cowardly, but worse, it is self-defeating. Review | Profiles in Thinking About Courage: inside ‘A Warning’ by Anonymous 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z An existing plan to delay the Beltway portion, to appease local officials concerned that some homes would be taken, is self-defeating. Opinion | Virginia and Maryland have taken a big step toward easing one of the Eastern Seaboard’s worst traffic chokepoints 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z But to single out an underperforming player for abuse is cruel, toxic and patently self-defeating. Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z If Trump manages to end this self-defeating cycle, he deserves credit. Trump is right to take troops out of Syria. Now they must leave Iraq and Afghanistan | Simon Jenkins 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Democrats and Republicans alike denounced Trump’s first announcement as reckless and self-defeating, and the administration’s attempts to clean it up put Trump into the role of both good cop and bad cop with the Turks. Trump’s Syria-Kurds move gets results — quick and negative 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z But eliminating a program because it reflects gaps in our society seems both knee-jerk and self-defeating. A high school is a ‘slave ship’? Seattle should be expanding its gifted programs, not maligning them. 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z But neither Ms. Lam nor the overlords in Beijing understood this, and the latest crackdown is the most stark evidence yet of their self-defeating miscalculation. Opinion | China is wrecking Hong Kong’s ideals. And it only has itself to blame. 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z At a certain level, the idea seems inherently self-defeating. Ignoring irony, McConnell laments efforts to 'politicize' Trump scandal 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z That prompted the reckless and self-defeating intervention in Yemen by Saudi Arabia and several allies. Opinion | A chance to de-escalate in the Persian Gulf 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z You may be puzzled: it seems self-defeating and detrimental to kill your host. Man v mosquito: what to do about our biggest killer 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z It’s a fitting, fascinating, yet often self-defeating idea. Blair Witch is a horror game that really feels like getting lost in the woods 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z It has nothing to do with purchases of U.S. soybeans or other concessions to give Trump a face-saving way out of his self-defeating trade war with Beijing. Opinion | History will remember how Trump responded to Hong Kong 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z “A frosty approach would be self-defeating,” an EU official said, while admitting that Donald Tusk, president of the European council, who will also attend, doesn’t always toe the line. G7 leaders wait nervously for Boris Johnson’s debut on the world stage 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z “At the same time, it can be very quickly self-defeating,” he said. Hong Kong’s Economy Shudders After Protests Plunge Airport Into Chaos 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z Their programmes are self-defeating and destructive and they do not speak to the dynamic and increasingly ascendant forces in both our societies. There are reasons to be cheerful. These are the dying days of a rancid old order | Will Hutton 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z Yet threatening a colossal act of self-harm is an obvious and self-defeating bluff. The next prime minister will be Boris Johnson. What now? Our panel responds | Martha Gill and others 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z “Obviously, you don’t ever want to celebrate having to use force on someone, but completely throwing it away as an option is really self-defeating.” ‘If others have rifles, we’ll have rifles’: why leftist groups are taking up arms 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Yet, under Trump, the UK’s self-defeating loyalty goes unreciprocated. This Death Star presidency is no ally for modern Britain 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z Colossally moronic and self-defeating might be more accurate, but would surely count as a tad unvarnished. Trump's spat with the UK reveals the bottomless depths of his insecurities | Richard Wolffe 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z But a war with Iran would be particularly self-defeating. Opinion | Trump was right not to bomb Iran. Now he needs a strategy. 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z Such a move would be self-defeating even in a general-election campaign against President Trump, in my view, but it would be positively insane in the Democratic primaries. Opinion | Biden is being Biden. That’s a risk. 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z For players prone to golf’s worst sin — self-defeating excuse-making — poa is the perfect culprit. To win one of golf’s majors, you better have a good story to tell 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z Tory members might not mind that the ministerial careers of Johnson or Dominic Raab were marked by self-defeating bombast and ostentatious ignorance, but those who met them in the international arena are less indulgent. The Tory contest shows that the Brexiters’ dream is dying before their very eyes | Rafael Behr 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z If there were any dispute about Darroch’s statements of fact, Trump himself – God bless his colossally moronic and self-defeating nature – confirmed them with a couple of tweets. Trump's spat with the UK reveals the bottomless depths of his insecurities | Richard Wolffe 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z The ability to fire school employees for going on strike, while something of a nuclear option, also is self-defeating. West Virginia editorial roundup 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z Labour voters and members saw our position in this election for what it was: a deliberate, self-defeating attempt to triangulate between different groups. Never again can Labour find itself on the wrong side of a historic choice | Tom Watson 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z While such a policy is indefensible and perhaps self-defeating, it must be placed in context. Venezuela's "muzzled" press has more diversity than U.S. corporate media 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z “The inclusion of the citizenship question on the 2020 Census threatens the very foundation of our democratic system and does so based on a self-defeating rationale,” Judge Seeborg wrote. Justice Sotomayor: Hispanics have ‘rational fear’ of Trump administration citizenship question 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z But when he tried to attack Kerry’s credibility during the testimony, he chose a bizarre and self-defeating line of attack — and only ended up humiliating himself. A Republican congressman attempts to mock John Kerry's political science degree, and it backfires 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z It would be gratifying if political reality and the cost of a weakened focus on climate would somehow inspire a reverse course from the self-defeating path that seems otherwise to be unfolding. Opinion | The truth about warming today 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z When he took that self-defeating step, the situation changed - many of us called for a special counsel because now there was a possible crime of obstruction. Mueller called it (largely) right on Trump 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Regrettably, however, over the past few years, it has increasingly exhibited a pronounced and self-defeating left-of-center bias. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Democrats with experience and a quibble over ‘Britain’ 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z For the majority of Americans, this seems like self-defeating strategy because Cohen admits he committed these crimes for Trump and under his direction. Donald Trump has a new fixer: House Republicans | Wajahat Ali 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z The irony here is that their pure greed may have finally become self-defeating. Perspective | Zion Williamson injury makes clear: The NCAA has turned education into a risk 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Eliminating self-defeating behavior is a fine place to start. How to coast at work without risking your reputation | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z The problem is that Mr Trump's irresponsible and self-defeating tweets on the investigation were consistent with such statements in a myriad of other areas from immigration to North Korea. Mueller called it (largely) right on Trump 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Trump’s faux emergency, like the self-defeating government shutdown that preceded it, reflect the Alice in Wonderland nature of American politics under this president. Trump’s emergency: the arbitrary action of an instinctive autocrat | Simon Tisdall 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z On the other hand: stuffing them from the age of three with skills best suited to careers in corporate law is surely an expensive and self-defeating insanity. Parenting in Manhattan is a Darwinian struggle | Emma Brockes 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z We fear that approach may be self-defeating in heavily Catholic Rhode Island. Editorials from around New England 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z They compile lists of bad habits and address self-defeating behaviours and a few years ago, when the trend started taking off, they sounded naughty and arresting in a light-handed way. Yes, I do give a sh*t about these sweary book covers | Emma Brockes 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Mr. Reilly has a habit of leaning into stereotypes about felons, almost as a political protest, and I sometimes wonder if it is self-defeating. He Committed Murder. Then He Graduated From an Elite Law School. Would You Hire Him as Your Attorney? 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z In this sense, Stone’s clown act of the past few days — simultaneously self-promoting and self-defeating — has been the Trump presidency in microcosm. Opinion | The Roger Stone clown show is the Trump presidency in microcosm 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Of course, approaching the issue in such a way becomes self-defeating. Why Trump insists his shutdown surrender wasn't 'a concession' 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z “We expect the continuing resolution to clear the Senate and clear the House this afternoon, and be signed by the president today ... Shutting down the government over a policy difference is self-defeating,” Schumer told reporters. Senate Democratic leader sees Trump signing bill to re-open... 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z And who knows what mortal sins are still to be committed in the next year or so by Donald J. Trump, whose excesses know no bounds and whose political judgment has proved increasingly self-defeating. California Editorial Rdp 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z He would see Paul Pogba playing, once again, at the point of maximum expression and realise how self-defeating it was to fall out with such a player. José Mourinho must bin blame game and learn from his failings at United | Daniel Taylor 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z They are authentically neurotic, self-defeating at times, guilt-ridden most of the time, but always ready to celebrate a common love of laughter, music and food. Feedback: From the Golden Globes' hits and misses to 'Mrs. Maisel's' 'stereotypes' 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z “If it is self-defeating to refuse to ally with white supremacy, then fine.” Here’s why economist Brad DeLong believes libertarianism is essentially a form of white supremacy 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z The Senate was right to repudiate that poisonous and self-defeating doctrine. Opinion | The unlearned lessons of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z It is cowardly, self-defeating, and bad for the world. China’s Economy Slows Sharply, in Challenge for Xi Jinping 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z But there are chinks in her defiance, failures of will and memory that echo the self-defeating political excesses of her neighbors. A Novel About Coming of Age Amid the Troubles 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z They are authentically neurotic, self-defeating at times, guilt-ridden most of the time, but always ready to celebrate a common love of laughter, music and food. Feedback: From the Golden Globes' hits and misses to 'Mrs. Maisel's' 'stereotypes' 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z There is a paternalist streak in liberalism that is more comfortable in providing for the poor than listening to and empowering them, which is not only morally wrong but strategically self-defeating. From Trump to Boris Johnson: how the wealthy tell us what ‘real folk’ want | Gary Younge 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z And incoming committee chairs, from Elijah Cummings on Oversight to Richie Neal on Ways and Means, are sending “Dear Colleagues” letters that insist a leadership fight for the top spot would be self-defeating. Analysis | The Daily 202: Liberals look for leverage in House leadership elections 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z Our contemporary motives are just as mysterious and self-defeating as the past’s. New Sentences: From Michael Kupperman’s ‘All the Answers’ 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z But the inability to apprehend murderers is a symptom of a broken justice system, and simply locking up more of the “right” people isn’t going to solve the larger problem of self-defeating policing. Opinion | When policing is self-defeating 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Ask for two raises, one for you and one for your self-defeating alter-ego. 101 Ways to Live, Work and Goof Off More Ambitiously 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z “It also would be very self-defeating. It would undermine the reputation they built as a reliable supplier for 45 years.” Saudis Issued Dire Warnings Against U.S. Sanctions. But How Much Leverage Do They Have? 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z The burden of advertising something new — but don’t worry, not too new — has rarely seemed more laborious or self-defeating. Review: A nasty, nimble ‘Halloween’ sequel finds this horror franchise in pretty good shape - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Unlike privately applying sad, self-defeating face creams or undergoing creepy surgeries that you recover from in your secret, old-person lair, braces force you to face the world with integrity. Perspective | Having braces as an adult is like finding the fountain of youth 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z It’s unfair and self-defeating for the government to deport them - especially after they have been raised as Americans and educated by American taxpayers - to nations where they are strangers. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Wolffe says that the questions posed to Ford were “tone deaf”, “uncaring” and “self-defeating”. Brett Kavanaugh: Senate committee to take key vote following Christine Blasey Ford's testimony – live 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Maximizing current consumption means purchasing the lowest-priced goods at any particular level of quality, but this becomes self-defeating when pursuing a mercantilist trade policy. Does the U.S. have the ingredients to win a trade war? 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z The same is true of Gaza, which greeted Israeli evacuation with continuing, self-defeating attempts to kill Israelis. Opinion | How peace keeps receding in the Middle East 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z American democracy also benefits from a strong international culture of liberalism, which is why cozying up to autocrats is self-defeating. Opinion | Will Florida Take a Left Turn? 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Instead, he said, they have often gone into a self-defeating defensive crouch. Nazi Collaborator or National Hero? A Test for Lithuania 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Such defensiveness is not only morally wrong, it is self-defeating. Excerpts from recent Minnesota editorials 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z For the sake of all Americans and that of our future, as well as the pride of our self-defeating, weakening president, I hope I am wrong. Opinion | Threats to peace and stability from within 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z Writing about it was great therapy for me to recognize my self-defeating patterns. From Homeless to Helping Others Get Off the Streets 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z As others fell into line, McCain became one of Trump’s chief Republican critics, jabbing at what he perceived as the president’s weak response Russian aggression and self-defeating hostility to Muslims. John McCain, influential US senator and ex-presidential candidate, dies aged 81 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z They argue that focusing attention on eliminating a law enforcement agency takes pressure off the president and could ultimately prove self-defeating. ‘Speaks Perfect English,’ Trump Says of Hispanic-American Border Patrol Agent 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z An insight into just how self-defeating Trump’s economic world war could be was provided by Erdoğan’s threat last week to quit Nato and transfer Turkey into Russia’s orbit – a prospect enthusiastically welcomed by Moscow. Money wars: how sanctions and tariffs became Trump’s big guns 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z But it’s self-defeating to exaggerate the external obstacles: in 2016, Democratic turnout declined in states with and without new voter restrictions. All That’s Left Is the Vote 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z It does not have to be this way, but change from this paranoid, self-defeating mind-set will be a long effort. Readers Respond to the 7.15.18 Issue 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z If anything, he wanted to repudiate the doctrinal mistakes of the recent past: America’s fixation on the Middle East, on a borderless global war on terror, and on self-defeating attempts to isolate Cuba and Iran. The Flight 93 doctrine 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z Short of that, the administration’s efforts will be self-defeating. Opinion | We can’t outsource America’s asylum system 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Sitting back and playing for the three-run homer is self-defeating and boring. How to fix baseball? Washington Post readers have a few suggestions. 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z One British official insists even now it will be self-defeating to play up the threat Trump poses to the transatlantic alliance. Trump's oily and obnoxious personality sorely tests British diplomacy 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z The hierarchy’s apparent intransigence over the payment of a compensation package, either to Conte for the last year of his £9m-a-season contract or to Napoli for the successor in waiting, Sarri, seemed self-defeating at times. Antonio Conte’s exit suited him and Chelsea but showed neither in good light | Dominic Fifield 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Trump’s approach to national security is equally self-defeating. The Flight 93 doctrine 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z However, we must not let that warp our judgment and lash out with self-defeating actions. Opinion | Stooping to their level hurts Democrats 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z Equally with damage likely to go both ways and Ferrari very much in the constructors’ fight it would have been self-defeating. British Grand Prix: Kimi Räikkönen’s wife weighs in on Lewis Hamilton spat 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z As with much of his program, Trump’s foreign policy is contradictory and ultimately self-defeating. Opinion | America will survive Trump. The rest of the world might not. 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z Yet despite foreign concern about Chinese competition, researchers warn Beijing’s approach is wasteful and might be self-defeating. China push to end reliance on US tech at trade fight’s core 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z The majority of Americans understand that “America First” may be a catchy slogan but is a self-defeating policy in a global world and that individualism must be tempered by the common good. Make Fourth of July a Trump-free day 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z It’s a little self-defeating, and a Facebook spokesperson tells TechCrunch it’s considering other options for keyword snooze in the future, like a recurring list, or a preemptive snooze option in News Feed Preferences. Facebook is testing a way to mute keywords 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z It was also the self-defeating nature of it all. Jesse Lingard laughs off Panama bruisers to help England find their joy | Barney Ronay 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z But absolutism in foreign policy tends to be self-defeating. Opinion | The Prince Who Would Remake the World 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z But there are none of the gratuitous jump scares or pointless fakeouts that have reduced mainstream horror cinema to so much self-defeating gimickry. 'Hereditary' is a new horror classic, and a triumph for Toni Collette 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z On the surface, the move seems unnecessary and self-defeating: Analysis: What is the Pac-12 thinking with its bowl ban on five-win teams? 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z “Merde”, wrote one especially disgruntled critic of the “extraordinarily self-defeating” performance; “what a mess”. The hazards of updating classic texts 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z “This is tragic and unconscionable, to treat so many children in this way, but it is also a totally self-defeating economic policy,” Alston said in an interview with the Guardian. Trump's 'tragic' policies likely to make child poverty much worse, says UN 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z Making anyone go through that when they don’t want to is so obviously self-defeating, it verges on the surreal. An abortion at the age of 23 gave me freedom 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z They see its exit from the Iran deal as an irrational and self-defeating outburst of rage, not part of a coherent regional plan. Europe Is Feeling Trumped 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z Many in the opposition argue that it is self-defeating not to support Mr. Falcón, no matter the odds. Maduro’s Top Rival Has a Problem: Venezuela’s Opposition Won’t Vote 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z It’s a sober and rather thoughtful account of his experience working for Holbrooke and how the creeping militarisation of US foreign policy has undermined and curtailed diplomatic initiatives with self-defeating results. Ronan Farrow: Woody, Weinstein and me 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z Given his recent history of self-defeating statements, the president is clearly not suffering through the early stages of dementia , but is afflicted instead by the political equivalent of self-harm syndrome. Opinion | There is no one who can save Trump from himself 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z It’s also arguably self-defeating, as all that time spent on test prep is time not spent on developing the knowledge base that the tests measure. Mississippi editorial roundup 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z Warring of media factions where fact and fiction compete for attention is both self-congratulatory and self-defeating. Opinion | The real and disheartening danger of the Sinclair story 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z If America ends up wanting to appeal against a ruling in favour of China, this will become self-defeating. America’s trade strategy has many risks and few upsides 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z It also was a self-defeating policy, in terms of preventing discrimination. Make a Deal on the EEOC 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z The GOP tax law represented real progress on a self-defeating problem recognized by both parties, even by President Obama. Reagan Protectionism vs. Trump Protectionism 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z Many economists and other analysts are critical of large public subsidies to attract companies, saying they create self-defeating competitions among jurisdictions and reward the politically connected. Some Maryland lawmakers question cost of Hogan’s Amazon package at hearing 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z Louisville's hring an escort service seems to me to be potentially self-defeating. Louisville Must Forfeit Basketball Championship Over Sex Scandal 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z You will never get an accurate count of how many people are non-citizens, so the question is self-defeating. A Citizenship Question on the Census May Be Bad for Your Health 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z Deporting dreamers is destructive and self-defeating purely on economic terms. Opinion | There’s a high cost to excluding the ‘dreamers’ 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z And while it’s difficult to understand why a sitting president would behave this way in public, there’s a broader self-defeating angle to all of this that’s also worth appreciating. Trump can't let go of a made-up voter-fraud conspiracy theory 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z But Congress should not facilitate a self-defeating return to detentions at Guantanamo. Opinion | Trump says he wants to refill Guantanamo. Bad idea. 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Exploring other worlds and studying other planets, while dismissing the overwhelming scientific evidence of climate change and its damage to our own planet isn’t just dangerous, it’s foolish and self-defeating. Bill Nye Does Not Speak for Us and He Does Not Speak for Science 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z “I think it would be self-defeating for our customer community because it ultimately would discourage us from investing on their behalf,” Northrop Grumman Chief Executive Wes Bush said on an investor call last week. U.S. Defense Firms Want to Keep Tax Windfall 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z For Carmen de Jong of the University of Strasbourg, the headlong rush into snow-making is costly, environmentally damaging and ultimately self-defeating. Winter sports face a double threat, from climate and demographic change 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Congressional Democrats should never again make the self-defeating political mistake of fostering the impression that they are willing to shut down the entire federal government over this single issue. Democrats Blink in Shutdown Impasse, Hoping for a Bargain 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z And a person close to China’s Commerce Ministry, who asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the matter, said tariffs from the Section 301 case would be self-defeating, and urged negotiation instead. China looks to call bluff on Trump trade action 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z “We are still insisting emphatically that violence is self-defeating, that he who lives by the sword dies by the sword.” Martin Luther King Jr. met Malcolm X just once. The photo still haunts us with what was lost. 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z The trouble is, Mr Bannon’s record in and since leaving government has been so dismal and self-defeating as to discredit his views and even his values. Banished Bannon 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z For now, however, it is up to the president to avoid the self-defeating blunder of destroying a deal that is clearly in the U.S. interest. Opinion | Trump shouldn’t undercut the Iranian protesters he claims to stand with 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z In the hour-and-change final against Harrison, I watched him behave in ways that you'd call finicky, defensive, angry, moody, insecure, and self-defeating. Nick Kyrgios is the most interesting man in the (sports) world - Golf Digest 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z And a person close to China’s Commerce Ministry, who asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the matter, said tariffs from the Section 301 case would be self-defeating, and urged negotiation instead. China looks to call bluff on Trump trade action 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z But these comments were stupid and self-defeating, not something to be emulated. Republicans’ yellow brick road always leads back to bashing Seattle 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z That he made himself look weak in the process and illustrated the book’s claim that he indulges in self-defeating tantrums only deepened the week’s folly. A distracting book for a distracted president 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z This "vote of confidence" from investors, he suggested, was at odds with the "self-defeating pessimism that is too often on show from certain politicians, commentators and media outlets". End 'obsessive' Brexit criticism says Fox 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z “But these extra dimensions can also be distracting, annoying, or otherwise self-defeating.” Words fail Trump but for supporters his message is loud and clear 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z “The tax proposals, though self-defeating, emerge from an understandable and growing public frustration,” Chodosh said. Opinion | Higher Ed’s Low Moment 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z Zealots are possessed and consumed by what, in the end, is always self-defeating defiance, and stubborn indignance. Alabama Certifies Jones Win, Brushing Aside Challenge From Roy Moore 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Some carnivore ecologists argue, though, that moving the hunt into cities will be self-defeating. Coyotes Are Colonizing Cities. Step Forward the Urban Hunter. 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z Call it getting in your own way, call it self-defeating behavior, call it accidentally-on-purpose shooting yourself in the foot. 6 Reasons Why We Self-Sabotage 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z “More than that, I think it symbolizes the self-defeating notion that for the United States, ‘it’s my way or the highway.’ Defying Trump, U.N. General Assembly Condemns U.S. Decree on Jerusalem 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z He sees the backlash against Lilla as “ridiculous and indicative of the self-defeating purity tests the left imposes on itself”. Mark Lilla: the liberal who counts more enemies on the left than the right 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z An even more self-defeating liberal effort is to convince their base that major presidential accomplishments are meaningless. Giving a Trump victory its due: Media ignores his ISIS success, mocks him 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z Targeting individuals in particular groups then becomes self-defeating. Does profiling make sense - or is it unfair? 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z We disagree with that approach and think it’s self-defeating to stop billions of dollars in construction projects — including $1 billion to build new schools. Hirst decision protects salmon and water rights for farmers, tribes 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z In doing so, Mr. Trump invited opprobrium from foreign leaders, who said the move was reckless and self-defeating. For Trump, an Embassy in Jerusalem Is a Political Decision, Not a Diplomatic One 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z But the strategy becomes self-defeating for homeowners who again pile on the consumer debt by wielding their charge cards. Don’t fritter away that home equity, financial planner warns 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z The result was the same: some scattered positive yardage, followed by self-defeating mistakes. Redskins turn back hapless Giants, keep flickering playoff hopes alive 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z It is a self-defeating position to take, because the world will move on without you, and you will find that both your trade and geo-political influence recedes. Trump’s Trade Policy Is Lifting Exports. Of Canadian Lobster. 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z Mr Wang’s book prophesies that, following the rise of Japan, other races would challenge American primacy, and the American system based on “self-defeating” notions such as liberty and democracy would find itself in crisis. The meaning of the man behind China’s ideology 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z That makes the president’s insistence on going forward with the vote on Thursday, instead of delaying it and encouraging reforms by the election commission, self-defeating. Opinion | Kenya’s election rerun could be a major setback for African democracy 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z By contrast, the demands of the Tea Party’s champions, a group of 40-odd congressmen known as the House Freedom Caucus, were trifling and self-defeating. Fiscal conservatism, RIP 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z It takes a lifetime of effort and habit to be this incompetent, unfeeling and self-defeating. Making a military widow cry: that is a classic Trump move | Richard Wolffe 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z That would be a self-defeating and damaging move. Eye in the sky offers clearest vision of Earth 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z Killing them is “obviously not desirable in any way shape or form — it’s self-defeating,” Mr. Kamenstein said. Tallyho! A Suburban Fox Hunt Endures 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z "We need to stop the negative, undermining, self-defeating pessimism that is too prevalent in certain quarters and be bold, be brave and rise to the global challenges, together," he argued. Fox and Davis call for Brexit optimism 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Obama retorted that Trump’s action was a “cruel” and “self-defeating” decision tinged with politics. Trump to point out efforts to undo Obama regulations 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z Rather, he said it was “self-defeating” and “contrary to our spirit, and to common sense.” Finally, Barack Obama is speaking up about Trump's excesses | Daniel José Camacho 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z Obama slammed the decision as “wrong,” ”self-defeating” and “cruel.” Trump orders end to program protecting immigrant ‘dreamers’ 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z I’m betting that Trump’s successor, whether a Democrat or a Republican, will reverse his shortsighted, self-defeating decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord. Hurricane Harvey previews our stormy future 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z Picking a fight with GOP congressional leaders is self-defeating. Donald Trump must focus on agenda, raising approval rating 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z Throughout his career, Smith railed against authority, often alienating the very editors whose imposed boundaries he needed when his obsessive quest for perfectionism became self-defeating. W Eugene Smith, the photographer who wanted to record everything 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z Also, opposing leaders based on their odious personal traits may feel satisfying but can be self-defeating. Review | Sorry, but I don’t care how you felt on election night. Not anymore. 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z To treat their workforce poorly would be self-defeating. North Carolina editorial roundup 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z It came toward the end of a week in which his administration had never felt weaker or more riven with self-defeating factions. The week the wheels fell off in Trump's Washington 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z If he really did pardon his aides, his family or himself to head off Robert Mueller’s inquiry, the move probably would be constitutional but ultimately self-defeating for the president. Analysis | Yes, Trump can legally pardon himself or his family. No, he shouldn’t. 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Years of misguidance, division, and violent extremism, while remaining bent on destroying Israel and inciting the people to violence, was nothing but self-defeating. Fifty years of immoral occupation 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z And that is why a scorched-earth approach from the president would be both cruel and self-defeating. Opinion | Why Obamacare won and Trump lost 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z Failing to address the “borrowing’ issue is self-defeating. California Editorial Rdp 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z But Kroeber said he still did not expect Trump to embark on a “stupid and self-defeating trade war” with China. China vows to step up air, sea patrols after U.S. warship sails near disputed island 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, his aggressive initiatives in foreign affairs are proving self-defeating — and damaging to the interests of the United States. Opinion | There’s reason to doubt Saudi Arabia’s charming new crown prince 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z The brutality of the assassination in the play and its disastrous consequences showed liberal audience members that violent regime change was “hideous, shameful, and self-defeating”, Stoll wrote. Corey Stoll on Trump-like Caesar play: ‘Being an artist has become a political act’ 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z Benjamin J. Rhodes, a former deputy national security to Mr. Obama who helped broker the opening first announced in 2014, called the clampdown a politically motivated move that would ultimately be self-defeating. Moving to Scuttle Obama Legacy, Donald Trump to Crack Down on Cuba 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Now, in the Trump era, add one more item to the list: when Asia faces an incompetent, corrupt, and self-defeating administration in Washington. Goodbye Pacific pivot, hello Pacific retreat 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z The former GOP wunderkind claims that Trump “lacks the focus or self-discipline to do the basic work required of a president” and argued that “his chronic impulsiveness is apparently unstoppable and clearly self-defeating.” Karl Rove, Erick Erickson slam Donald Trump 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z The traits reflected in Mr. Trump’s decision are self-defeating selfishness, insecurity and myopia. Opinion | Trump turns his back on the world 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z The notion that Mr. Trump should preserve the Paris accord in a misguided effort to curry favor with corporations and environmentally minded liberals was self-defeating, Mr. Bannon and his allies contended. In Rejecting Popular Paris Accord, Trump Bets on His Base 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Already, with his self-defeating immigration policies, President Trump has turned a cold heart to much poorer nations. Donald Trump has ditched the world in favor of Big Oil's titans | Jill Abramson 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Yet none of this is cause for indulging in a self-defeating cynicism that proclaims it impossible for judges to rise above the bitter partisanship that has infected the other two branches. Opinion | The Supreme Court rises above politics 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z Yes, it is possible that such cuts may be unwise, unfair or even economically self-defeating. Analysis | Trump’s budget gives us plenty to criticize, but let’s not go overboard 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z To its credit, the Trump administration is responding — breaking with a long-standing and self-defeating U.S. policy of avoiding confrontation with the movement founded by Hugo Chávez. Opinion | The Trump administration takes encouraging steps against Venezuela’s corrupt regime 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z “We cling to old ways of doing things, even when new ways are better and healthier and smarter. We cling to self-defeating beliefs long past their shelf life,” Ms. Tavris said. Why It’s So Hard to Admit You’re Wrong 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z President Trump’s decision was self-defeating for the country and him. Donald Trump has ditched the world in favor of Big Oil's titans | Jill Abramson 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z The blunders may often be self-defeating, but not always. Chill: Trump’s ineptitude will save the Republic 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z But Gregory said it would be “self-defeating” for hackers not to release data upon receipt of a ransom, “because that would immediately hit the media, and no one would pay”. Don't pay WannaCry demands, cybersecurity experts say 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z This situation is probably self-defeating for environmentalists, too: Even under the Trump administration, U.S. oversight will be more stringent than that of many other oil-producing nations. Opinion | Neither side is really right on offshore drilling 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z So self-defeating was the idea that within three days, national security adviser H.R. Opinion | Trump: ‘normalized’ but still scary 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z Trump decided instead to continue his absurd and self-defeating war against the news media. Opinion | 100 days of Trump, two lonely accomplishments 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z “Any economist will tell you that tariffs are often, if not always self-defeating,” said Michael J. Graetz, a tax law professor at Columbia University. Trump Reversals Hint at Populists’ Diminished Sway on Economy 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z Businessman Dennis Shia, 50, thinks that Trump’s trade policies could be ultimately self-defeating. After talks, Chinese region sees risks to trade, US visits 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z It could be a self-defeating move for Democrats: Manchin and Heitkamp are widely considered the only possible members of their party who might be able to win in those deeply conservative states. Analysis | Trump’s Washington means civil war — for both parties 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z What a self-defeating statement to find myself making in the first paragraph of a column. So Theresa May thinks she just needs to look the part… | David Mitchell 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z Obviously, self-defeating voting patterns go well beyond Trump. The Trump faithful get the budget cuts they voted for 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z I’ve spent much of the last decade helping organize protests large-scale and small; one key part of the planning always involves making sure that necessary anger doesn’t turn into self-defeating rage. College students should resist – not silence – their political foes | Bill McKibben 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z As they find themselves sudden targets of a well-organized and well-financed opposition from within, some Republicans are beginning to question whether the squabbling is ultimately self-defeating. Why Republicans Are Battling Republicans on Obamacare Repeal 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z But then the GOP’s accommodationist wing thinks fighting for a lost cause is self-defeating. Paul Ryan, Kevin McCarthy Obamacare replacement should be called ‘Abominable Care’ 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Will it surprise you to hear that the early signs point to a budget that is anything but smart – that is, in fact, short-sighted, dumb and self-defeating? Trump wants 'peace through strength' – but this budget is a recipe for war | Jonathan Freedland 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z I wasn’t surprised to learn from a mutual friend that McMaster considered his new boss’s ban on refugees and immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries to be heinous and self-defeating. Can H. R. McMaster Survive as Trump’s National-Security Adviser? 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z How can Trump’s self-defeating behavior be explained? One theory, subscribed to by a number of mental-health professionals, is that he suffers from a narcissistic-personality disorder that prevents him from turning the other cheek. Why Does Donald Trump Lash Out at Everybody? 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Deporting 750,000 dreamers who registered with the government and received Social Security numbers and two-year work permits would not just be cruel; it would be economically self-defeating and politically foolish. Opinion | Trump may be tilting toward compassion on ‘dreamers’ 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z “We remain highly concerned that the skirmishes with key trading partners and threats of border taxes will be self-defeating and ultimately growth inhibiting,” said Douglas Porter, chief economist at BMO Financial Group. Trump on jobs report: 'It's going to continue, big league' 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z There is, of course, the possibility that Mr. Trump is a strategic genius, out to gain an edge over the nation’s rivals by convincing them he is prepared to engage in irrational, self-defeating behavior. Trump and Trade: Extreme Tactics in Search of a Point 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z His words and actions often seemed random and self-defeating. Amid distractions of his own creation, Trump moves swiftly to change the country dramatically 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z The self-defeating consequences of abandoning the high road are horrifyingly catalogued in the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s monumental 2014 report on the C.I.A.’s use of torture during the Bush era. Trump’s Dangerous Fantasies about Torture 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Trump’s embrace of Russia’s strongman will undermine Merkel and empower those in Europe who warn that attempts to punish Russia are self-defeating. The Countries Dreading Donald Trump's Presidency the Most 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z Nobody was entirely buying it, but that is the self-defeating point of so many answers he gives. Nick Kyrgios shows his many sides to explain defeat in Australian Open | Russell Jackson 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z “Legal questions aside, it is my view that such actions would be self-defeating and a betrayal of our ideals.” James Mattis Calls Iran ‘Biggest Destabilizing Force’ in Region 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z “It’s not just dishonest, this selective sorting of the facts; it’s self-defeating.” Obama’s farewell message on democracy: ‘Show up. Dive in. Stay at it.’ 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z He seems at least a little bit below average, frankly — hopefully — but if his actions are usually self-defeating, his impulses are basically good. Animated 'Jeff & Some Aliens' is in familiar 'out there' territory 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z Therapy can be very short—a dozen sessions can significantly improve on self-defeating habits and emotional vulnerabilities like depression and anxiety. How to Know if Your Therapy Is Working 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z The truth and strength of that argument, however, has never carried the day in Washington, where Congress has been mired for years in self-defeating partisan games. Recent editorials published in Nebraska newspapers 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z The future probably will feature many more such self-defeating government interventions in the name of compassion as protectionist America tries to cower its way to being great again. A plan to make America 1953 again 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z Finally, the therapy aims to undermine self-defeating assumptions about sleep, like “Without a good night’s sleep, I can’t function the next day” or “Medication is probably the only solution to sleeplessness.” Insomniacs Are Helped by Online Therapy, Study Finds 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z If ego depletion is essentially caused by self-defeating thoughts, one has to wonder about the harm done by this overturned hypothesis. The Way You Think About Willpower Is All Wrong 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z “It seems like it would be self-defeating,” Davis said. Md. and Va.won’t meet deadline for new Metro safety body. What happens now? 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z Equally self-defeating, a religious “test” or registry would risk alienating Muslim citizens of the United States, whose assimilation and loyalty to America are a bulwark against domestic terrorist threats. An un-American registry 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z The unpredictable consequences of a trade war make the president-elect's approach self-defeating, economists say. What an iPhone could cost in Trump’s America 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z It needs an alternative to both self-defeating protectionism and the failed faith that globalization will work to everyone’s advantage. Democrats Also Need to Think Anew 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z And after Barack Obama usurped her in 2008, she had eight years to figure out how to run and govern without surrendering to traits that have so often proved self-defeating and exhausting. The end is nigh 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z The hatred of Clinton from the testosterone left is a dangerous, self-defeating omission from those who insist theirs is a project of fairness. Time to hail Hillary – and face down the testosterone left | Van Badham 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Among other things, he participated in a meeting in August in which advisers urged Mr. Trump to maintain his focus and stop engaging in self-defeating fights. Latest Unpaid Trump Vendor Is His Own Pollster, Filing Shows 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z In other words, when you’re being patronizing, you can be self-defeating, too. Donald Trump’s appeal is not just about ‘anger’ and ‘resentment’ 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z As wrenching as “Moonlight” can be during the most cruel, violent and self-defeating moments of Chiron’s journey, as a bold, inspiring example of poetic-humanist cinema it’s almost an ecstatic experience. ‘Moonlight’ is both a tough coming-of-age tale and a tender testament to love 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z |
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