Sentence examples of "self-defeating" in English
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This is a difficult responsibility to embrace. For human history has often been a record of nations and tribes subjugating one another to serve their own interests. Yet in this new age, such attitudes are self-defeating.
C'est une responsabilité difficile à assumer. Car l'histoire humaine a souvent été un récit de nations et de tribus se subjuguant les unes les autres, pour servir leurs intérêts propres. Cependant dans ce nouvel âge, de telles attitudes sont contre-productives.
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