Indeed, so vicious that it is often impossible to simply punish the cheater him or herself.

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But in her trial 10 months later, a jury of 12 men decided no woman could be capable of a crime so vicious.

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So the vicious circle spirals on and the question of why continues to puzzle.

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The author explains that wreckers were not so much vicious as desperately poor, and that coastal communities saw ships' cargoes as theirs for the taking because they would otherwise be consigned to rot on the seabed.

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So things are getting vicious and Facebook is one of the weapons in this particular battle.

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Her biggest weakness is that she means more of the same when it comes to the vicious partisanship that so mars American politics.

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So there's this vicious cycle.

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Of course, since poverty and education are so tightly interwoven it becomes a vicious cycle very quickly.

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So Japanese firms are caught in a vicious circle: because they are not selling to poor countries, their volume stays low, which keeps prices high, which makes selling to poor countries infeasible.

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So why do so many accomplished women get snared in the vicious cycle of not getting paid properly for the work they do?

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So how can managers and executives break this vicious cycle?

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Meeting in London this week, some 350 delegates from a motley collection of Kurds, Shias, liberal secularists, monarchists, Turcomans, Assyrians, feminists and others sketched out a vision of a future Iraq that was more coherent than anything they have so far achieved in 12 years of often vicious squabbling.

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"We are now encouraging the DTI to examine the impact that this initiative has had with a view to extending the projects to other parts of the country, so that more communities can fight back against these callous, often vicious, individuals who take advantage of people in desperate straits, " said Ron Gainsford, chief executive of TSI.

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"Just the media reports I saw looked as if it was somewhat unprovoked so there must be something behind that, and the assault seems extremely vicious, " Key added.

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So our first mission was to break the momentum of the deepest and most vicious recession since the Great Depression.

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They are huge, vicious predators, with incredibly powerful jaws and move with lightning speed - so you really, really don't want to start an argument with one.

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Not so, as in time added on, Noble picked up the ball 30 yards out before unleashing a vicious strike which flew into the top corner.

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Can we be so sure it is fellow-feeling rather than instinct that drives us to our virtuous as well as our vicious actions?

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