Examples of vicious circle

• Further, as we examine how agreements/compacts were actually made, we realize that there a kind of vicious circle between "coercion" and "voluntary will".

• There is a vicious circle linking natural disasters with poverty: poor people suffer more drastically and have less resilience to enable reestablishment after disaster strikes.

• The outcome was a vicious circle whereby women's work, perceived as low status, was poorly rewarded and therefore regarded as unimportant.

• This feedback could create a dynamically unstable 'vicious circle' between population growth and resource depletion.

• This being said, there is the potential downside of a vicious circle.

• Thus, a vicious circle is established in which thoughts and congruent emotions fuel one another in an interlocked, continuous cycle.

• This is the vicious circle in which researchers tend to become entrapped.

• The vicious circle hypotheses suggests that the percentage of time allocated to collection activities would be much higher at young ages.