Expectations become self fulfilling, oil prices rise, a speculative bubble is born.

Because despair is self fulfilling.

Because despair is self fulfilling.

More subtly, Microsoft can control expectations, which turn out to be self fulfilling when network economies are substantial, as they are in software markets.

It acts as a self fulfilling prophecy.

In difficult times, pessimism is a self fulfilling, self inflicted death sentence.

Rather, it rings of a self fulfilling prophecy.

But this threatens to become a self fulfilling prophecy.

Unfortunately, such talk could well become a self fulfilling prophecy.

Now what I'm doing is fulfilling your expectations of how I should live my life.

Now, what I'm doing is fulfilling your expectations of how I should live my life.

Moreover, in foreign policy, as in life itself, outlooks can be self reinforcing, and self fulfilling.

Its presence is enough to support a benign self fulfilling prophecy.

It's a self fulfilling prophecy. We can't get out of it.

Dark prophecies are often wrong, but they may also become self fulfilling.

Part of Syria s agony is the self fulfilling nature of the conflict.

Most ironic is the self fulfilling critique that many activists now use.

Was this wishful thinking or self fulfilling prophecy? We will never know.

Americans and Chinese must avoid letting exaggerated fears create a self fulfilling prophecy.

Kicillof s second point was that Argentina s businesses and consumers should not succumb to pessimism. Alluding to Keynes s theories about self fulfilling expectations, he warned that, if people expect things to go wrong, they will.

The government must then raise taxes and the fallacy becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.

Until then, markets will keep pressure on sovereign spreads, making a self fulfilling crisis likely.

Their resilience is important, because market fears of instability often become a self fulfilling prophecy.

Fear feeds on itself, and the prediction that stocks will lose value becomes self fulfilling.

Continuous talk of a Sunni Shia divide might ultimately develop into a self fulfilling prophecy.

There is a danger of a self fulfilling prophecy, namely, that problems lead to failed States.

In this context, the fear that Afghanistan will unravel once again risks becoming a self fulfilling prophecy.

And, even if they don t make that choice, fear of such exits can easily become self fulfilling.

But in an already polarized environment, an Ortega Bush standoff is nothing more than a self fulfilling prophecy.

Confidence is a self fulfilling prophecy, and we can, and should, manage it by direct intervention in asset markets.

The greatest danger is that an escalating fear of enmity in the three countries becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.

So the books are in English, the journals are done in English, but that is a self fulfilling prophecy.

The administration seems bent on herding adversaries together transforming Samuel Huntington s clash of civilizations dystopia into a self fulfilling prophecy.

The process of isolation of Israel starts in the heads of its citizens, and is becoming a self fulfilling prophecy.

Boys and girls are undeniably different biologically, but socialization exaggerates the differences and then it becomes a self fulfilling process.

Obviously, Microsoft owns its old software and can decide at what price to sell it or whether to sell it at all. More subtly, Microsoft can control expectations, which turn out to be self fulfilling when network economies are substantial, as they are in software markets.

As noted in paragraph 71 of the first report of the Secretary General (A 46 385) on economic stabilization programmes in developing countries, external support can feed domestic confidence and thus avoid the trap of self fulfilling negative expectations about the prospects of an adjustment programme.

Increasing risk aversion is leading economic agents to adopt a wait and see stance that makes the slowdown partly self fulfilling.

The goal would be to establish a mechanism capable of delivering a pre emptive strike to prevent self fulfilling liquidity crises.

71. National execution was an important means for Governments to achieve self reliance in fulfilling their economic and social development needs.

This is creating a self fulfilling prophecy once the Bundesbank starts guarding against a breakup, everybody will have to do the same.

Fulfilling the Genomic Promise

I'm fulfilling your wish!

But this approach establishes a self limiting pattern, because balance sheets are damaged, demand falters, and expectations have to be adjusted downward.

War threats in the Middle East should never be dismissed as hollow. Prophecies of war, moreover, have too frequently proven themselves to be self fulfilling.