These cycles are self-reinforcing: more lending pushes up property prices, which encourages more lending.
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In theory, the agreement promises to break the self-reinforcing link between weak governments and weak banks.
The growth in demand for Windows is therefore self-reinforcing that is, subject to positive feedback.
But whatever its outcome, Londonism has become a self-reinforcing ideology that will probably outlive both men's careers.
On the view that bad standards are strongly self-reinforcing, no such monopoly-defending actions would have been needed.
The more people join Facebook, the greater the advantage of joining, so the social network's success is self-reinforcing.
For me, at least, getting more sleep was a habit that was self-reinforcing.
When downward price movements can themselves trigger the need to unwind investments, further depressing prices, they soon become self-reinforcing.
Without that pent-up demand, resources freed from supply-side measures and austerity get saved, not spent, and no self-reinforcing cycle is triggered.
By lowering the cost of investment, you can unleash a self-reinforcing cycle.
This is the self-reinforcing circle of excellence every startup needs to succeed.
Those who determined that worthiness were gatekeepers whose power was derived from the nature of the system a self-reinforcing edifice of who knows who.
In the time since, the NRA has become even more extreme, even more paranoid, even more ensconced in its self-reinforcing world in which guns are all that matter.
That creates the possibility of a cycle of self-reinforcing destruction.
Home prices rose about 8% in 2012, which can contribute to a self-reinforcing circle of coaxing hesitant buyers off the sidelines while improving household balance sheets and creating cash-saving refinancing opportunities.
Former currency minister Sakakibara warned it might happen and the Bank of Japan had to act against raging market forces in a bid to prevent a self-reinforcing rumor-mill from strengthening the yen.
There seems to be a self-reinforcing cycle here.
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Because very low fertility can become self-reinforcing, with children of one-child families wanting only one child themselves, China now probably faces a long period of ultra-low fertility, regardless of what happens to its one-child policy.
Once a market has captured most of the trading volume in equities, it can reap economies of scale that enable it to see off even a potentially low-cost rival, and its grip on liquidity then becomes self-reinforcing.
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Together these pioneers have created a set of self-reinforcing strategies and tactics that addressed some of the short comings of the first crop of e-commerce companies born before 2000 as well as the reality of the retail business itself.
Since researchers, administrators and grant-awarding bodies all take note of which work has got through this filtering mechanism, the competition to publish in the best journals is intense, and the system becomes self-reinforcing, increasing the value of those journals still further.
But pessimism is also self-reinforcing.
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As both buyers and sellers reduce their costs and increase their efficiency by investing in the capacity to do business on the Internet, it is in their interest to persuade more and more of their business partners to do the same, thus creating a self-reinforcing circle.
If crises can hit us at any moment for no reason, and not because, say, governments impose self-reinforcing down-spiral accounting rules on the banks, then it is easier to believe that we should spend our time figuring out ways to mitigate the inevitable consequences rather than trying to prevent what cannot be prevented.
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When positive self-statements strongly conflict with self-perception, she argues, there is not mere resistance but a reinforcing of self-perception.
Predictions of easing gasoline prices are also being driven by views that there could be potential oil supply overhang concerns coming up in the absence of a strong and immediate message by the successor of Saudi King Abdullah, reinforcing the adherence to self-imposed production limits by OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) members.
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Some company specific concerns: Sustained multi-year negative same store sales growth underscore significant volume and customer attrition that remains self reinforcing.
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