The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behaviour which makes the original false conception come 'true'.

译文：自我实现的预言，它以对现实的虚错描述或定义开始，这一虚错的描述或定义，能引发新的行为，这些新行为进而导致原本虚错的概念变得“正确”。

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The definition of the situation awareness and its position and effect in the future sea battles considering the network-centric operations as the main form is proposed.

阐述了态势感知的定义及其在以网络中心战为主要形式的未来海战中的地位和作用。

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Listing 14 demonstrates this situation with pseudocode for the definition of two rules.

清单14用两个规则的定义的伪代码演示了这种情况。

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And thus, knowing Ms. Lewinsky's view of that situation and sharing her definition, the president could reasonably say absolutely yes, when Mr. Bennett asked the president if Ms. Lewinsky's affidavit stating that she had never had sexual relations with the president was true.

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Once you consider the enormity of this - a situation that many in modern politics, finance and economics might regard as the definition of "unfreedom", you understand why it has become so hard for Barroso, Merkel et al to formulate a plan.

BBC: Thinking outside the 1930s box

"There was no clear definition of success in a complex and evolving situation, " the PAC report said.

BBC: Report critical of Rock response