Kennedy handled the firestorm of outrage with self-defeating smugness.
I guess I'm not a sports fan, but I don't see the fun in defeating people just for the sake of defeating them.
Before the war, the national unity and unity of one mind and one by one succeeded in defeating the aggressors.
The game ended 1-1 and Uruguay advanced through to the semi-finals after defeating Ghana 4-2 in the penalty shootout.
The performance of our young competitor, Hao Chang, was especially outstanding today, defeating Fengzhu Xu of the Korean team in the middle game.
The Bush administration's energy policy to date --a military garrison in the Middle East and drilling for more oil in the Arctic and other fragile habitats --is costly,dangerous and self-defeating.
What explains these self-defeating tactics?
Any attempt to make up would be self-defeating.
Do not want to self-defeating, but to mislead the consumer.
Then they said it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, that I was culturally deprived.
Don't fight the thought, just change the channel of your mind and get interested in another idea. This is the first step in defeating temptation.
In the decisive battle, the New Fourth Army took the strategy of active defense, defeating many with few, winning the great victory in the defense campaign in the area on the vast plain.
Self defeating oneself is the most lamentable failure. Self defeating oneself is the most precious victory.
But higher rates could attract more hot money, which would be partly self-defeating.
This self-defeating cycle could explain why socially conservative states have more family instability than, say, the culturally liberal Northeast.
After defeating a Malaysian XI 3-2 and 2-0 in Kuala Lumpur, United have moved on to South Korea for the third leg of their four-match tour.
Besides, American policy can seem self-defeating.
Success also planted the seeds of disaster by creating self-defeating expectations and behaviors.
It's a set of traits that describes perfectly the behavior of many of the people who, in a cascade of self-defeating decisions, helped create the subprime crisis.
hostility was self-defeating.
A policy locking people into jobs that could be better done elsewhere is self-defeating.
To second day early morning, "has congratulated" the sound to the ear, in the air does not fill the air is defeating "the year beast" the victory and the rebirth joy.
Of course, some tricks are self defeating, which I know better than anyone else.
You rely on pride, and all things are enemy, and all things will take you as enemy. That is to be self defeating, you are humbled and ashamed, you are friends with all things, and all things will be friends with you, and that is the common prosperity of the same life.
Washington's foreign policy during the past decade was too militarised and unilateral, succeeding only in generating a self-defeating anti-Americanism.
One is a reasonable response to a challenging market. The other is a self-defeating trade-off.
A young person, especially a female, radiant with beauty and full of life, has all the favor granted by God. Any attempt to make up would be self-defeating. Youth, however, comes and goes in a moment of doze.
He said in his lifetime he had climbed a great mountain, the mountain of challenging and then defeating racial oppression and defeating apartheid.
How can a sleepy, defeating India suddenly become mobile?
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