That is, it might have been seen as the legitimate act of self-defense it is.
Others slapped their chests with their hands in a symbolic act of self-flagellation.
Zimmerman, who is Hispanic, told authorities the killing was an act of self-defense.
Second, there were fears that touting offensive IW might engender enmity on the part of adversaries in an act of self-fulfilling prophesy.
The PCOM was born in the late 1930s as a desperate act of self-defense by West Texas cotton farmers, who at the time could hardly give their seed away.
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, also a secure-looking despot, fled Tunis for the relative safety of Saudi Arabia on January 14, 29 days after the act of self-immolation.
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Sanitising his past was, in fact, a necessary act of self-protection for Wordsworth: many of his contemporaries found their careers blighted for good by their early commitment to revolutionary ideals.
Charged with first-degree murder, she could spend the rest of her life in prison if convicted, but she insists it was an act of self-defense after months of taking care of a troubled teen.
Though quitting the competition may have been an act of staggering self-regard, it was no hollow gesture.
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So even contemplating an acerbic parting shot at my organisation would be an act of profound self-loathing.
It turns out that becoming a comedian is an act of instantaneous self-creation.
Notwithstanding the determined and persistent efforts by shareholder advocates and corporate governance watchdogs, most shareholders act sheepishly in the face of the self-appointed board members and executives who monopolize power.
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The problem is that many of these prejudices start to act as self-fulfilling prophecies.
It was not an act of martyrdom, or of arrogance or self-delusion, but, rather, an exercise in intellectual consistency.
Only somebody intently attuned to the lives of the parents and their suffering would have understood that the Special Olympics was not just a classical act of noblesse oblige, handing something down patronizingly to the suffering poor, but of self-help as well.
In light of these potential job losses, a strong argument can be made that contractors should send WARN Act notices even if doing so is purely out of self-interest.
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"The act of savings is fundamentally about understanding that your future self - the person you're saving for - is in some sense equivalent to your present self, " Prof Chen told the BBC's Business Daily.
And the answer they provide for why people sometimes act against their economic self-interest is the idea of choice.
Walcott's upset victory, only the second by a non-European in Olympic javelin competition, should act as encouragement to Yego, who is not short of self belief.
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But what makes this book worth reading is the fact that the authors have taken as first principles for their Utopia the harsh truths of Darwinian capitalism: individuals and companies act in their self-interest, and markets guide that impulse through prices.
RO, they could act as a useful bridge between it and the boards of the self-regulators.
With or without her right-hand man, Ms Rousseff will have to act decisively if these expectations of inflation are not to become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Until the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 was passed after Enron, the audit industry was self-regulating and established its own professional standards, enforced only via peer reviews.
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So both sides of the political spectrum have a motivation not to act in a self-defeating way.
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This describes the common condition where people fail to act in pursuit of long-term goals due to a lack of self-discipline.
My testing shows that this signal is this is backward-looking and not very useful, but since a large number of people believe it, they act on it resulting in a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Too busy achieving, even the heroic achievers fail to act in their self-interest whereby they seek to limit the growth of the state.
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And this beneficial outcome follows, remember, on the extreme assumption that voters act not out of concern for the greater good, but out of pure self-interest.
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