| After all there is an intense competition, creating a downward spiral leading to unviable rates? |
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| Unfortunately, the downward spiral in price would be a direct consequence of any further reduction in tariff protection. |
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| The residents are quite rightly convinced it will blight the area and lead to increased crime and a downward spiral of house prices. |
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| The company's share price, already in a downward spiral, continued its fall and has now lost half its value in the past year and a half. |
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| There would be a downward spiral of prices, but no actual increase in market share for any of the firms involved. |
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| This is stuff that can put us on the front page of The Wall Street Journal and our share price in a downward spiral. |
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| But if inflation is negative, that strategy won't work, and the economy could fall into a downward spiral. |
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| The output reductions would be made with a view to halting the downward spiral of DRAM prices, itself caused by supply vastly outweighing demand. |
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| A month into the corralito, the government unpegged the Argentine peso from the dollar, sending the peso into a downward spiral. |
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| Since you broke up she's embarked on a downward spiral of dating increasingly unattractive men and it all makes for quite desperate reading. |
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| I could see how Andy was on a downward spiral and I think the rejection from us helped kick-start his career. |
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| A number of countries and regions risk becoming caught in a downward spiral of conflict, insecurity and poverty. |
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| What transpires is a downward spiral of shame and recriminations culminating in Veena being shunned by her family and turned out of the house. |
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| This time around, both the U.S. and German economies are flatlining, while that of Japan continues its slow, downward spiral. |
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| He gets into social life, the few extra lempiras a week, the booze, the downward spiral. |
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| He performed a tactical approach to the airfield, banking the plane 45 degrees in a tight downward spiral to the left. |
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| The problem is how easy it is for an enjoyable night to slide into a downward spiral of chasing losses and going on tilt. |
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| This went on to cause no end of grief for her Mum and a downward spiral of self-destruction for this confused young teen. |
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| Mr White believes this triggered a downward spiral fuelled by heavy drinking sessions. |
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| This has proven to be a vicious downward spiral leading to the destruction of all past gains won in decades of struggle. |
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| So he dropped his guard as he dropped trou and commenced his downward spiral. |
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| They seem to envisage an irreversible downward spiral leading to the depopulation of Australia. |
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| When people get in a downward spiral, they have difficulty breaking that pattern. |
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| The plot charts a downward spiral that takes the characters into a nearly feral state. |
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| None of them went into a downward spiral, becoming withdrawn or incommunicative or unable to function. |
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| I suppose the huge bag of churros and chocolate sauce hastened my downward spiral. |
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| Over the next few years, she would hear about him through her brother, about his remarriage, his downward spiral, his self-destruction. |
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| This loss sends the relationship into a downward spiral, leading to increased bickering and fighting, and to the collapse of the union. |
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| Bender gets hooked on electricity, and Fry and the gang worry that he's on a downward spiral toward self-destruction. |
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| Datalex continued its downward spiral after reporting a larger than expected second-quarter loss last week. |
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| The bulk of the first half of the film concerns Jack Magnus's introduction to drugs and his downward spiral into self-destructive addiction. |
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| The collapse of the property bubble and the Asian financial crisis in 1997 sent the city into a downward spiral of job losses and deflation. |
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| The huge work pressure the tutorial system creates, can lead students into a downward spiral of self-deprecation and loss of confidence. |
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| There is a continuous downward spiral of living conditions for the majority of the population. |
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| It was a gradual process that progressed through a downward spiral of self destruction. |
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| Some of us have despaired of the downward spiral of the public debate on immigration in both political parties. |
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| But if the downward spiral takes hold, America will end up in recession and so quite possibly will Europe. |
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| In the aftermath of market trading since the report's release, grain markets have been on a significant downward spiral. |
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| This downward spiral involving local power politics was obvious to the Americans in the valley. |
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| Even a modest hit from sanctions or pullback by foreign investors will only add to that downward spiral. |
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| Not having breakfast is a surefire downward spiral to abject misery, hence the genius of this week's theme. |
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| One of the key issues here is how to promote the notion of upward convergence and avoid a downward spiral where workers would lose out. |
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| All indicators point towards a sharp downward spiral and a looming manmade humanitarian catastrophe. |
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| Once branded as a truancy problem, chances are good that the branding will become a behaviour problem and the downward spiral will begin. |
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| Again and again Oney grabs the reader by the scruff of the neck, both through his dexterity with details and through the horror of the downward spiral of the case itself. |
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| We believe there will be a downward spiral with this Government's policy, because it is a slap-happy, haphazard policy that is trying to bring in 45,000-plus people. |
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| This emphasizes the need for a guided therapeutic approach, shifting the downward spiral seen in ACLF toward hepatic recompensation. |
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| At around this time the price of coca went into freefall, driving the whole of the Ivorian economy into a downward spiral. |
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| Whether it proves deflationary in the strict sense depends on whether it sets off a downward spiral in prices. |
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| This is a symbol of a downward spiral that can only lead to an escalation of violence. |
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| Fixing the financial system is the first step to end the downward spiral and to move into the economic recovery phase. |
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| I did have one solitary experience with Ms. Reynolds before our relationship started to grow and my life got a huge kick-start in its already progressing downward spiral. |
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| To his fellow survivors and to the audience, this delusion indicates another slip on a downward spiral. |
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| The shoes are the telling detail, proof that the song's protagonist has slipped from stability into a downward spiral of apathy and self-abnegation. |
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| This fuels a vicious downward spiral of self-hatred and hatred of anomalous others from which it is difficult for the political discriminator to escape. |
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| Slowly I progress on my downward spiral, but am saved from sinking completely into the mire of self-recrimination by the jolting reality of sudden stillness. |
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| It sends all the wrong signals to the market and can quickly turn to a vicious downward spiral as lenders, bondholders, and equity investors take fright. |
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| This system of direct rule by proxy enraged the Unionist right and eventually unleashed a downward spiral of loyalist reaction and republican assertiveness. |
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| Meritz also believes that the major memory producers will soon begin to cut back on production in a bid to prevent the downward spiral of DRAM prices. |
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| The downward spiral on local business will only get worse, they fear. |
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| Or else he will become one more voice in the wilderness in a country determined to go on a downward spiral of social and ecological self-destruction. |
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| It's a fateful symbiosis in a downward spiral of political aspiration. |
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| A few principles which are hardly ever applied may already be able to solve a temporary state of anxiety and manage potential conflicts upstream so as to avoid entering the downward spiral of general demotivation. |
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| First smallscale, but then bigger clashes between Turks and Kurds in the cities cause a major change of mentality, starting the descent into a downward spiral of violence and insecurity. |
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| This risks a downward spiral leading to deterioration in the working conditions of all crews and the loss of a considerable number of jobs for seafarers from the European Union. |
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| As an extremely harsh winter ends, one may wonder how this small country, faced with immense and apparently insoluble problems will be able to get out of the downward spiral that is leading it towards bankruptcy. |
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| But, there are very few jobs, and this influx of farmers is the cause of a downward spiral into poverty, with alarming economic and social effects. |
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| The Canadian Labour Congress is here today in Ottawa to offer a practical five point plan to reverse this downward spiral, including a call for a national action plan on manufacturing. |
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| Quick and decisive action is needed to stop this downward spiral. |
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| This means that both sides must act to break the downward spiral. |
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| The alternative is for Member States to get locked into a downward spiral of beggar-thy-neighbour measures to attract each others' dishonest tax evaders, the result of which is a net loss of tax revenue for all Member States. |
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| If we do nothing, the countries will remain trapped in a downward spiral. |
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| Eyewitnesses described the aircraft descent as a constant downward spiral. |
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| Individuals experiencing compassion fatigue have a hard time maintaining a healthy balance of concern and objectivity and find it hard to come out of the downward spiral. |
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| Reminder: If you are tempted to think that old age is a downward spiral of disease and decline, just look around at the many older people who are living long and rewarding lives with little physical and mental deterioration. |
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| Each year an estimated 1.5 million people in the US suffer an osteoporotic fracture, which often leads to a downward spiral in physical and mental health. |
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| Countries and companies alike are interlocked in a downward spiral where they have to outbid or undercut their competitors in order to secure or enlarge their share of the export markets. |
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| The developing downward spiral results in permanently decreasing data quality, which can only be stopped by a complete relaunch of the system in the extreme case. |
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| There is no getting away from the need to be far-sighted and responsible in reforming the common fisheries policy in such a way as to break out of the downward spiral in our fishing industry. |
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| Otherwise, there is every risk that whilst the market or revenue will indeed level off, this will mainly occur in a downward spiral, which cannot be the object of the exercise. |
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| During the summer, the alleged foiling of a supposed coup attempt, plotted by former president Domitien Ndayizeye, the truth of which was challenged by many of the independent media, gave a new twist to the downward spiral. |
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| This, in turn, began a downward spiral in the relationship between Britain and the Province of Massachusetts. |
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| In the early nineties, as cessation program participation began its downward spiral, the pictures and scare tactics were discontinued because they did not work. |
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| The risk exists that workers are played against each other in collective bargaining, creating a downward spiral in working terms and conditions, at the national, regional and company levels. |
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| It is particularly worrying that states such as Saudi Arabia and the USA are directly or indirectly aiding the Yemeni government in a downward spiral away from previously improving human rights record. |
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| If California disinvests in its great universities, a downward spiral in quality will follow. |
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| Eccentric scientist Rick Marshall goes into a downward spiral after his theories about interdimensional travel are ridiculed by his fellow boffins. |
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