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The diversion will be at least partly self-defeating.
Whether or not this attitude is morally vacant and ultimately self-defeating, as its critics charge, it's hard to see how anyone who seriously holds these views, whatever you call them, could really have had much to argue about with the America Firsters in the late 1930s.
At a time when Las Vegas has become America's model of economic development, the Navajo vote may seem a grand self-defeating gesture.
The plan is magnificently self-defeating.
The NYT 's "Week in Review" has a funny compilation of stories about self-defeating behavior in job interviews.