self-defeating dans le dictionnaire Oxford-Hachette

self-defeating dans le dictionnaire PONS

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In partying the night before the exam the student has engaged in self-defeating behaviour and increased the likelihood of poor exam performance.
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The subconscious, as it is known in psychoanalysis, as well as viewpoints emphasizing unconscious motivations, drives, and instincts are considered to be self-defeating.
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These complaints include these measures being anti-developmental, self-defeating, and tending to have an adverse impact on the poorest segments of the population.
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One of these outcomes is the self-defeating prophecy, which through the very fact of its being publicized, is actually wrong.
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If they could get good crowds, they couldn't handle them, so even if they succeeded it would be self-defeating.
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It was counter-productive and self-defeating, therefore, to expose first-time offenders to the corrosive and brutalising effect of prison for trifling offences.
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We contend that attempts to foster unity (among the schools or in the wider profession) at the expense of scientific integrity is ultimately self-defeating.
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Rejection appears to lead very rapidly to self-defeating and antisocial behavior.
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Yet, when actually performing, they instead pursued behavior aimed at immediate gratification, despite knowing the longer-term results would be self-defeating.
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One problem with this epistemology is that it seems to be self-defeating.
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