In Ghana, a spider called Myrmarachne foenisex is an excellent mimic of the red weaver ant, a vicious creature with a nasty sting.
Turley says he was once in the training room after a game with a young linebacker who had suffered a vicious hit on a kickoff return.
Still, the fact that these industry giants retained the highest rating calmed investors, who had worried that downgrades could trigger a vicious cycle, a fore-selling of bonds, leading to more losses for the big banks and increased credit costs for consumers, city government and others.
Indonesia faces, in a particularly vicious form, a downward spiral seen in Thailand and, to a lesser extent, Malaysia.
It is more of a last resort and often found to cause a vicious circle instead of a long-term improved competitive position.
Of course, these social phenomena are both symptoms of and contributors to economic circumstances, a vicious cycle that requires a structural solution at the policy level.
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Once people lose faith in a system, a vicious cycle, like a bank run, propagates through, like a virus through arteries and veins, which will put it on its knees.
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The story begins in 1994, when the Malaysian press revealed that then Malacca chief minister Rahim Tamby Chik apparently had been led astray by a 15-year-old schoolgirl. (The accused's rivals in the dominant national party UMNO leaked the tawdry details.) Rahim was subjected to a vicious character assassination by a wide spectrum of society, including his party colleagues and the government-controlled media.
The process creates a vicious cycle in which each time a person goes on a diet like McCotry's, she'll have to further lower her caloric intake in order to drop weight.
The scheme had been launched to help young people trapped in a vicious circle where they could not get a job because they did not have any experience on their CVs, he said.
The situation could be a vicious circle for the Soviet Union if a disappearance of loans deprives it of the foreign currency needed for imports, which are needed to keep the economy running and creditworthy.
"We are in a vicious cycle, " said Evans Revere, a former senior State Department official who now works on Asia issues at the Brookings Institution.
The home collapse gathered momentum when Darren Stevens, soon after being hit on the glove by a vicious Kruger lifter, ran himself out attempting a suicidal single to Jamie Dalrymple at mid-on.
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Stockmarket analysts took this as a rebuttal of a vicious article in February in the Bungei Shunju, a monthly Japanese magazine, which pointed to various problems with Hikari Tsushin's sales targets.
Broad was bowling with great venom and accuracy, and Fidel Edwards lasted just three balls before splicing a vicious throat ball to Tim Bresnan, who took a good catch in the gully.
Right now, our economy is trapped in a vicious cycle: The turmoil on Wall Street means a new round of belt-tightening for families and businesses on Main Street--and as folks produce less and consume less, that just deepens the problems in our financial markets.
The most visible narrative is the one recorded on cell phone videos and broadcast daily showing a vicious, autocratic state using superior weaponry to gun down a determined and popular opposition.
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When any member of EVAC is hit by a novel virus, either a completely new one or a vicious variant of an old one, they pass on a warning which is distributed to all members of the network.
It is a vicious cycle in which many are trapped: security is a prerequisite for development and development is a preventative for insecurity, yet these states lack the basic means to pay for the security that would facilitate the stability and economic growth that would, in turn, generate the revenues for the governments.
The change comes in the wake of a vicious public relations battle between Apple and Adobe, creator of a widely used technology called Flash that manages video and animations on many websites.
Prosecutor Elwen Evans QC said what followed was a "brutal and vicious assault" on a sleeping, defenceless 15-year-old boy, who bled to death.
Grusha then undergoes a perilous journey to evade vicious soldiers, becoming a loving mother during a few difficult, impoverished years in exile.
Employers' problems feed, in a vicious cycle, the urban problems--like regional and racial divisions, lousy city schools and a poorly prepared work force--that seem to afflict St.
And even as we confront a vicious adversary that abides by no rules, I believe that the United States of America must remain a standard bearer in the conduct of war.
Gupta and Lal are just two of thousands of victims of a new and vicious crime wave that has cast a pall of fear over Bombay, India's commercial and cultural center and a city that has always thrived on boisterous ostentation.
Executives in Round Rock boast about holding the operating margin almost constant amid a vicious price war.
New batsman Bell was greeted with a vicious bouncer that he did well to avoid.
If Mr Allawi follows this lead, Iraq could end up in a vicious circle.
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