1. It's a vicious spiral: she feeds it, I feed her -.

2. The process goes into a vicious spiral, on a timescale of hundreds of thousands of years.

3. Pursuit encourages further retreat, and so a vicious spiral is established which can destabilize a relationship.

4. A vicious spiral of credit withdrawal, weakening growth and debt impairment ensued.

5. Sufferers get trapped in a "vicious spiral" in which anxiety over their imagined illnesses makes them unable to cope with normal work and office situations, researchers said.

6. Finally, brings forward suggestions and countermeasures of a vicious spiral of duplicate construction and excess capacity.

7. Global economy and financial markets dived in a vicious spiral.

8. Deflation can lead to a vicious spiral of business closures, layoffs and more of the same.

9. Finally, brings forward suggestions and countermeasures of conquering a vicious spiral of duplicate construction and excess capacity.

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10. If credit markets stay blocked , consumers and firms will enter a vicious spiral.

11. The real restrictive factor is the poverty of education right, as a result of the unfair system, which leads to a vicious spiral for rural area in poverty.

12. The rise in inequality is the product of a vicious spiral: the rich rent-seekers use their wealth to shape legislation in order to protect and increase their wealth – and their influence.

13. Should Ireland fall, concerns about Portugal and probably Spain could rise, creating a vicious spiral that could drag the euro zone into another deep crisis with global implications.