vicious circle

They've got to be conspicuous, and without ideas they can't, so it's a vicious circle.

But there is a way of escape from this vicious circle,—the path of self-realisation.

The doctrine of the "vicious circle of wages and prices" examined.

That is the doctrine known as the "vicious circle of wages and prices."

Something akin to a vicious circle was involved in this progress.

But perhaps there is a vicious circle in our previous reasoning!

It is a vicious circle—isolation, prejudice; prejudice, isolation.

But how is it that Mr. Montalembert does not see that he is placing himself in a vicious circle?

Here, then, is a vicious circle of concurrent cause and effect.

The accumulation of capital has been caught in a vicious circle.