To me this stereotype, like many, if not all stereotypes, was nothing but a self-fulfilling prophecy. |
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We could make it a self-fulfilling prophecy if we assume they have civility and regard them all and treat them all as one. |
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Over the years, the curse has served as a blanket term for a variety of shortcomings and has been something of a self-fulfilling prophecy. |
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Reportedly, he has said he is to be a one-term prime minister, which may prove to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. |
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Wringing our hands and saying nothing will ever happen because he's Superman is a self-fulfilling prophecy. |
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That raises the danger that telling people what way they are going to vote results in the polls becoming self-fulfilling prophecies. |
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Williams told everyone who would listen that his players were useless, and it eventually proved to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. |
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Children often know what is expected of them, and believing that children will behave poorly can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy. |
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Convince the electorate that membership is inevitable and it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. |
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Wishing will ensure that nothing changes, fulfilling the self-fulfilling prophecy. |
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Some have warned that labelling children in this way can be counterproductive, perhaps proving to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. |
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Our failures begin to resemble self-fulfilling prophecies, born of the knowledge that most of us can happily fool ourselves most of the time. |
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Otherwise, the self-fulfilling prophecy it alludes to would occur and the band wouldn't exist anymore, right? |
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The real danger of resting on this comfortable pew is that we've come to expect our place in the world to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. |
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They start spending all their time in bed and their muscles atrophy and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. |
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I can truly say that my 40 years in broadcasting have been very self-fulfilling and exciting. |
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Policies based upon concepts of 'us and them' are likely to generate self-fulfilling prophecies. |
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There is a risk that self-fulfilling expectations will become entrenched and that stubborn economic imbalances will persist. |
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Chance remarks of the Allied leaders sometimes tended to assume the quality of self-fulfilling prophecies. |
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Problem is, if enough people jump ship, that will become a self-fulfilling prophesy. |
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But there are fears that indicators such as these, which are growing in popularity, are self-fulfilling. |
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Predictions of an economic crisis became self-fulfilling prophecies. |
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The celebrity juggernaut becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. |
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Unfortunately, that view could become a self-fulfilling prophecy. |
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As academic life grew more removed from the convention, the prognostications became self-fulfilling prophecies. |
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This rejection sensitivity inevitably becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy as the individual becomes hypersensitive to any deviation of affection. |
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It was a self-fulfilling prophecy, a feedback loop of rational and irrational fears. |
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The confidence man's utter self-assurance can sometimes become a self-fulfilling prophecy. |
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I have great faith in optimism as a philosophy, if only because it offers us the opportunity of self-fulfilling prophecy. |
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The perils of Aesculapian authority include self-fulfilling prophecies and the consequences of miscommunication. |
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Power politics and realpolitik emphasized by realists is seen as being derived from shared knowledge which is self-fulfilling. |
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With two complicit systems of self-justification and self-fulfilling incomprehension reinforcing the divide, is there any way forward? |
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In fact, it would take another 15 years for Gibson's self-fulfilling prophecy to be realized. |
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Were names like Notorious and Clever, Beautifull and Naturell self-fulfilling prophecies? |
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A vision of the universe as a barren landscape is a self-fulfilling prophecy. |
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And that could be self-fulfilling, as investors start Monday to scramble to guard against that possibility. |
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Mohammed was concerned that rumors and reports of sectarian killings would become a self-fulfilling prophecy. |
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For Phil and his co-religionists, there is no distinction between prophecy and self-fulfilling prophecy. |
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In Baker's opinion, which he verifies in a circular and self-fulfilling fashion, early Anglo-Norman saints' lives observed the caesura strictly. |
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Perhaps the naming of our cats was sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy. |
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Furthermore, this may end up a self-fulfilling proposition: ridings identified as natural may become entrenched. |
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To some extent, this is self-fulfilling prophecy, because negativism is contagious. |
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Supporters agree and say that labels can work like self-fulfilling prophecies. |
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A self-fulfilling belief, Aikin claims, is not a counterexample to Clifford's evidentialism. |
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Ultimately, the financial institutions themselves would suffer from this self-fulfilling prophecy. |
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In a well-reasoned argument, Attrition said that predictions of a cyberwar between China and the US could become a self-fulfilling prophecy by actually encouraging attacks. |
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Prognosticating death drives decisions that may end up as self-fulfilling prophesies. |
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Like a gilded self-fulfilling prophecy, wealth and prestige beget greater wealth and prestige, with dramatic implications for the future of postsecondary education. |
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The danger is that such prophecies can be self-fulfilling, in other words, to make something happen merely by predicting it. |
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Nonetheless, these worrying trends towards social disruption are not a self-fulfilling prophesy that we should accept fatalistically. |
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While I was pondering why this happens I remembered the concept of the self-fulfilling prophecy. |
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Research on self-fulfilling prophesies shows that teachers will put in place the conditions for their predictions to come true. |
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A herd instinct took over, leading to declines that can partly be explained by the self-fulfilling prophecy. |
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By considering children as weak, vulnerable and helpless members of society, they help create a self-fulfilling prophecy. |
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But that does not mean we should sit on our hands and make such an outcome a self-fulfilling prophecy. |
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I am not sure exactly what is meant by that because it seems to me it is a self-fulfilling prophecy in a sense. |
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To whatever extent those statistics may or may not be true, it is a self-fulfilling prophecy. |
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The idea of partition, always in the minds of the campaign instigators, emerged as a self-fulfilling prophecy. |
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It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy if enough short-sellers enter the market. |
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This can be perceived as a self-fulfilling prophecy, where the prediction influences the resulting action. |
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Cynicism or pessimism about a development plan will invariably become a self-fulfilling prophecy. |
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There is a huge danger of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy here. And the world is a less secure, less peaceful place as a result. |
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Denial can create wonderful self-fulfilling prophecies. |
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Can pessimism publicly expressed be self-fulfilling? |
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Was Wimpy's name a self-fulfilling prophecy? |
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The prophecy that the surrender of human liberties will be the price of world salvation could indeed be self-fulfilling in the absence of clear-cut facts about the problems that are breeding around us. |
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In this case, the real interest rate could remain high, dampening growth and making negative inflation expectations self-fulfilling, leading to a deflationary spiral. |
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Well I got news for them, that becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. |
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Cabinet ministers seemingly jockeying for position risk turning talk of election defeat into a self-fulfilling prophecy. |
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Faculty search committees that hold unverified assumptions cause campuses to engage in self-fulfilling prophecies regarding the recruitment of minority faculty. |
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That's why it's so troubling today to see Clark join in the same self-fulfilling wave of determined pessimism and obstruction he battled four years ago. |
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We should beware of a self-fulfilling prophecy and should consider how we dealt with confrontation between the European Parliament and the Council about the annual budget. |
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Analysts show how trust and trustworthiness interdepend, the latter in part a consequence of the self-fulfilling effects of the former. |
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The result, however, is a very dangerous self-fulfilling prophecy and, in more and more branches of industry, we are heading for dangerous market concentrations. |
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Racial profiling, therefore, can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. |
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For instance, by acting inflexibly toward others because of their need to control their environment, they can provoke others into becoming hostile, which creates a self-fulfilling prophecy. |
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In the same way, recessions become self-fulfilling prophecies when doomsayers predict the collapse of the property market. |
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Great care needs to be taken in relation to the draft special examination report that examiners at all levels maintain an open mind: the draft report should remain just that, and not become a self-fulfilling prophesy. |
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Furthermore if we telegraph what we are going to be doing, in other words if we are too obvious with where we are coming from, we create self-fulfilling prophesy. |
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Over the past half century, Moore's Law has held up remarkably well though nowadays it is more an industry target than a prophesy, and therefore a self-fulfilling one at that. |
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Yesterday Alan Greenspan, worried about consumer expectations' nasty way of becoming self-fulfilling, delivered a needed pep pill to the nation in the form of a half-point cut in the key federal funds interest rate. |
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In the case of the nocebo, it is negative expectations that become self-fulfilling prophecies. |
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Whatever their motivation, those in the United States who reject multilateralism must know that such an approach contains a depressing element of self-fulfilling prophecy. |
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When teachers discover how they can make a difference in the achievement of their students, this positive experience builds on itself like a self-fulfilling prophecy. |
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Complicated connections in the strategic succession of America's global interventions propel this phenomenon of self-fulfilling prophecy. |
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This may have been a self-fulfilling prophecy as it left Angelides an impossible hill to climb. |
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This situation paralyzes your staff and becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. |
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The respondents are concerned that simply discussing the real estate bubble might create a self-fulfilling prophecy. |
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In more practical terms, I am referring to the Pygmalion effect and the property of self-fulfilling prophecy of most economic and financial models. |
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The insurers Allianz have said that they will only go into markets where they will be among the top three, and that, on an international level, will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. |
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The social policies of early Francoism ensured that they became self-fulfilling prophecies. |
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However, if Western fears of the Islamists did indeed hamstring the aid effort, they might be partially self-fulfilling. Muddling throughEven the optimistic case for Pakistan's survival is downbeat. |
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Tanks have been deployed, although only on the outskirts, and queues have formed at banks and supermarkets as rumours of hoarding become self-fulfilling. |
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Wednesday against self-fulfilling prophesies by the finance markets. |
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Among young people, the self-fulfilling prophecy is reflected in underestimation of their capacities and apprehension of unemployment as an inevitability. |
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History almost plays itself out to become a self-fulfilling prophesy. |
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Yet nowadays there seems to be far too hasty a rush to judgment, with opinions apparently being backed by little but opinion, as if they were self-fulfilling prophecies. |
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Let the expectations be a positive self-fulfilling prophecy, and enjoy the successes of your people because they reflect well on you as well as on them. |
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A type of Pygmalion effect, or self-fulfilling prophecy, then will follow. |
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This is not true and it must not become a self-fulfilling prophecy. |
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We believe that Big Brother enthusiasts are placing bets to help pay for the cost of voting for Aisleyne and it could therefore become a self-fulfilling prophecy. |
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The processes of categorization, stereotyping, discrimination, and self-fulfilling prophecy can also apply to stigmas based on blemishes of individual character. |
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I fear we are being drawn into a self-fulfilling downward vortex in which broadcasters make programmes ever spicier, ever frothier, to capture a slice of the market. |
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