Unfortunately, and quite often, she really is and her distanced behavior is a self-fulfilling prophesy.
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People prophesy doom for the country's tourism, free oil and internal stability if war breaks out.
Recently Jews in synagogues around the world heard an ancient prophesy about a time of tribulation for the Christians.
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This kind of budgeting process makes the warnings of conservatives a self-fulfilling prophesy.
Then, there is the oddity that the forecasters may have some small ability to make their forecast a self-fulfilling prophesy.
The old-style arms control community will protest the abandonment of the anti-ballistic missile (ABM) treaty and prophesy a new arms race.
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Second, there were fears that touting offensive IW might engender enmity on the part of adversaries in an act of self-fulfilling prophesy.
But if there is a moral to this larger story, it is that eating as if there were no tomorrow, can become self-fulfilling prophesy.
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Market forces would have helped the target become a self-fulfilling prophesy.
Yet the worry remains that if all creditors face the risk of loss in a crisis, they will start a run, creating a self-fulfilling prophesy.
But that biblical prophesy doesn't take account of the eurozone crisis.
Mr. Thongbai says the prophesy could still come true because Thailand's New Year falls in April, although he says he hopes it will be proven wrong.
By flooding the market with billions of dollars and then making public prognostications that oil prices will rise, such gamblers are accused of creating a self-fulfilling prophesy.
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But this is a self-fulfilling prophesy, and a damaging one.
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"I said, 'We're going to have 100% of the stroller market for three years, and then we'll be lucky to have 5%, '" Jeff predicted, and his prophesy came true.
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The sponsors' curse seemed to become a self-fulfilling prophesy.
The acronym BRIC was coined by Goldman Sachs ( NYSE: GS) in 2001 in a chicken-and-egg prophesy: causing Russia, China, Brazil and India to see their interests as potentially aligned, and politically worth aligning.
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In order to claim powers of uncanny prophesy, for at least a while, I think I owe it to the law of averages to predict it here in black and white, so that I can get levelled.
Another of their important functions, according to Celtic tales and mythologies, was they were able to exhibit a range of magical powers, such as divination and prophesy, healing, levitation, shapechanging and they could even control the weather.
The third anniversary of U.S. military action to liberate Iraq has brought with it a relentless stream of media and political pessimism that is unwarranted by the facts and threatens to become a self-fulfilling prophesy if it goes unchallenged.
If he's wrong - if there is, in fact, a faster growth path available, which would not undermine market confidence, then the government's strategy could be making the supply side problem a self-fulfilling prophesy, by condemning us to unnecessarily slow growth which could have permanent effects on Britain's potential output.
Using capital as a means of ensuring that banks do not fail will be a self-fulfilling prophesy that will only guarantee a land made up of Too-Big-To-Fail giants ( Bank of America, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, Wells Fargo, etc.), and will eliminate any creativity in the financial sector.
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