Vicious circle
a vicious circle - one problem leads to another problem that makes the first problem even worse making the problem bigger (amplifying the problem), this repeats over and over again in a cycle until the situation gets extremely bad bad; a series of events that reinforces itself through a feedback loop toward greater instability (See Wikipedia)
a vicious circle of cause and effect
measures to break the vicious circle
living in a vicious circle
a vicious circle of decline
corrective action for a vicious circle of decline
the vicious circle of joblessness and homelessness that teenagers face
a vicious circle of violence
break out of the vicious circle
events led to a vicious circle
the whole situation became a vicious circle
reinforced the vicious circle
a vicious circle sets in a process of cumulative causation
the vicious circle of hyperventilation
a vicious circle of decline
back in the same vicious circle again
no progress was made at all ,they found themselves back in the same vicious circle again
Example sentences:
* Rural transport has been caught in a vicious circle of declining demand and rising fares which not even the provision of subsidies has been able to break.
* These measures might break the vicious circle.
* For Zen teaches us that love breeds fear, and fear breeds hatred, and hatred breeds violence, in a never-rending, vicious circle.
* A vicious circle therefore develops of doing less and less exercise.
* She knows that and she just seems to be like in a vicious circle all the time, I mean she doesn't, I mean she just keeps getting deeper, deeper into debt.
* Um often this is one of these things that's er a vicious circle.
* It has thus become a vicious circle of spoken mumbo jumbo.
* Many are in a vicious circle of mismanagement and underfunding, as governments, fed up with incompetence, squeeze their cash.
* This in turn reinforced the vicious circle of foreign debt, exchange controls, administrative impediments to corporate planning and the reluctance of foreigners to increase investment in the country.
* Without corrective action, we will remain in a vicious circle of decline.
* Financial institutions have been trying to pay down their debt by selling assets,... but this drives asset prices down and makes their financial position even worse. This vicious circle is what some call the "paradox of deleveraging."
* Her role as homeless teenager, Mandy, in the TV Soap has made Nicola very aware of the vicious circle of joblessness and homelessness which so many young people have to face.
* He was left behind, trapped in a vicious circle of addiction, thieving and violence.
* Two of the things dogs often do when anxious are to chew or lose toilet control, and so the whole situation becomes a vicious circle.
* It is easy to see, therefore, how going round in circles is not a vicious circle, but a circle nonetheless.
* In many ways it was a vicious circle, everything cost so much more if one couldn't produce in bulk, but to produce in bulk one needed capital, and plenty of outlets.
* We're all living in a vicious circle.
* Armed vigilante groups fight back against the gangs, adding to a vicious circle of violence.
* We can only break out of this vicious circle by understanding the factors that influence the dietary choices we make.
* This can lead to a vicious circle, in which important communication is filtered out by power-seekers so that the structure (which causes most of the problems) is reinforced in order to flush out the filtered information, thereby making the filtering worse.
* The heat was retained by the celebrated greenhouse effect, making the atmosphere hotter and very much denser, which in turn released further CO 2 from the rocks, the classic vicious circle.
* They don't have the cash to finance the rebuilding of the side and that can become a vicious circle: poor results, lower crowds, less revenue.
* This can develop into a vicious circle with the child eating less and less at meal-times and more and more between meals.
* Thus a vicious circle of political impotence was set in motion by Mosley; in order to obtain much-needed publicity for the programme and political ideas of the BUF, which it was now denied in the national press, the techniques and methods of low politics leading to street conflict with political enemies were encouraged.
* This is linked to population decline in what is usually portrayed as a vicious circle of cause and effect: as services decline people react by out-migrating, which leads to further fall in demand and a consequent further reduction in service provision.
* I think it's part of a vicious circle, that sometimes it's guilt which leads to depression and then women feel guilty about being depressed and that's why they take what is on offer to them.
* Both these reasons have combined to produce a vicious circle of decline.
* Here she felt lonely and depressed, as it seemed as if she'd made no progress and was back in the same vicious circle again.
* A vicious circle is being created where parents perceive that the roads are becoming more dangerous, so they forbid their children to cycle, and take them to school by car.
