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The Democratic president explicitly blamed Republicans for the country's recent rating downgrade, saying it "could have been entirely avoided if there had been a willingness to compromise in Congress" which he later described as a "self-inflicted wound."

Obama Defends Job Initiatives Matthew Dolan 2011

Yet the current Palestinian leadership still insists on calling the self-inflicted wounds caused by its rejection of a two-state solution the " nakba ," meaning the catastrophe.

The Palestinians' U.N. Agenda Alan M. Dershowitz 2011

The troubled star's sacking from the hit TV show "Two and a Half Men" Monday came after the 45-year-old hurled himself into what Warner Brothers called his "self-inflicted disintegration" over the past two weeks.

Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

The memoir, in a way, is my poking at the scar left by this self-inflicted wound.

Jackson Katz: Fathers, Sons and Guns: An Interview With USC Sociologist and Author Michael Messner Jackson Katz 2011

The memoir, in a way, is my poking at the scar left by this self-inflicted wound.

Jackson Katz: Fathers, Sons and Guns: An Interview With USC Sociologist and Author Michael Messner Jackson Katz 2011

"That would precipitate a self-inflicted financial crisis potentially more severe than the one from which we are now recovering."

What the Government Debt Crisis Means to You Sara Murray 2011

The father of their 2-year-old daughter was found in the victim's Lenox Road apartment in Flatbush alive but with an apparently self-inflicted stab wound to his chest at about 9:07 a.m., a law-enforcement official with knowledge of the case said.

Possible Murder, Attempted Suicide Under Investigation Tamer El-Ghobashy 2011

(Others were: after killing Moss, he administered a self-inflicted shot to his side to get investigators to believe his ambush story; second was the one in the shoulder right before getting shot in the hand.)

Archive 2009-05-17 Tyler 2009

The primary threat to America's "winning the future" may be a self-inflicted blow to its economic agility, i.e., a government-orchestrated retreat from liberal capitalism.

Our Future Is in Our Hands; We Should Be Concerned 2011

More Bernanke: European Troubles 'as Much Political' as Economic Sen. Shelby Cautions Bernanke Against QE3 Fed Chief Open to New Options Bernanke Shifts Tone on Further Easing Not taking proper action "would be a self-inflicted wound," he said, because it would raise U.S. interest rates and increase the government's borrowing costs and the deficit.

Fed Chief Cool on More Bond Purchases Sudeep Reddy 2011