Unfortunately, and quite often, she really is and her distanced behavior is a self-fulfilling prophesy.

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This kind of budgeting process makes the warnings of conservatives a self-fulfilling prophesy.

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Then, there is the oddity that the forecasters may have some small ability to make their forecast a self-fulfilling prophesy.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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The sponsors' curse seemed to become a self-fulfilling prophesy.

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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.

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It is the self-fulfilling prophesy.

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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.

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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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