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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Attempts to stir up nationalistic feeling at such times are bound to be self-defeating .
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It's time to end the self-defeating cycle of overeating and dieting.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As this diagram suggests, a self-defeating organiza-tional behavior pattern is more than a single misguided strategy or reaction.
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Flagrant disregard for the evidence freely available in libraries at home and abroad was self-defeating .
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In self-defeating organizations, poor performance comes to resemble this sort of eternally perpetuating cycle.
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Members of a self-defeating organiza-tion are, as a result of prior negative experiences, inclined to believe the worst.
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So there you have it: narrowly self-interested behaviour is ultimately self-defeating .
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The equal opportunities strategy is, the writers claim, likely to be self-defeating .
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They learn to then shift from negative, self-defeating internal dialogue towards positive, more realistic, and confidence-building self-speech.
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Why do the retraining efforts of self-defeating organizations tend to create at least as many difficulties as they resolve?