| 词汇 | example_english_self-defeating |
| 释义 | Examples of self-defeatingThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. First, its solution to the existence of disagreements, namely giving precedence to the right to political participation, seems self-defeating. Stability is not only hard to g rasp, its pursuit is self-defeating. In social dilemmas, game-theoretic rationality is self-defeating, and experimental players frequently violate it. Even from a normative point of view, rationality is self-defeating in social dilemmas. Policy that has overlooked the complexity of ecology may prove to be self-defeating. The force of the son's denial of his fortune serves as a compelling response to the self-defeating reanimations of dust and death. This rip-off of the old feminist slogan that the personal is political is, however, totally self-defeating. The patient is encouraged to talk about feelings, and to feel understood, rather than to discharge them in self-defeating ways. He suggested that the intention to borrow, like that of inventing ritual, is self-defeating. Thus, this set of economic policies, taken alone, would be self-defeating. If all can do it, it may be self-defeating: no one gains a height advantage if everyone increases in height. The discretional path toward economic reform is self-defeating for it fails at establishing the long-term frame that only legal institutions can provide. However, as the experience of the past several decades illustrates, this policy will ultimately be self-defeating despite any short-term benets that the government may gain. The nationalist strategy is, from a civic patriotic point of view, not only morally objectionable but also tactically self-defeating. Such representations were self-defeating as prescriptive employee literature inadvertently contributed to the stereotypical perception it sought to refute. Second, pursuit of "positional advantage" through enhancement of some traits, such as height, risks being either self-defeating or unfair. An elaborate, inclusive, antiageist strategy that on occasions challenges commercial imperatives and government priorities will encounter formidable opposition, but to do otherwise may prove self-defeating. The project is bound to be self-defeating or counter-productive. Studying ecological complexity is important because management that ignores this complexity could be self-defeating. The possibility of value derivation through other relations than the causal-instrumental one explains why non-instrumental dependent value need not be self-defeating. Section 6 is devoted to social dilemmas, in which rationality is self-defeating and human decision makers are paradoxically more successful than ideally rational agents. Furthermore, a sense of threat could possibly result in a collective perception that action might turn out to be self-defeating. This is undoubtedly true, but such austerity can be self-defeating. Indeed, beyond the point of showing science's historical tendency toward economizing on effort, science education might even become self-defeating. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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