Sentences with phrase «long downward spiral»

Embattled Mills Corp. today entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Canadian - based office owner Brookfield Asset Management Inc. for $ 7.5 billion, presumably ending a year - long downward spiral that threatened to leave Mills investors...

Sometimes layoffs are a sign of the company entering a long downward spiral; in other cases it is a sign of the beginning recovery.

Instead, «Behind the Candelabra» is one long downward spiral, a gratuitous tale of a man who drowns in his own opulent acts of denial.

The fate of Yahoo's chief executive, Marissa Mayer, who came under sharp shareholder criticism for failing to arrest the company's long downward spiral during her four - year tenure, is unclear.

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As long as the republican party embraces the stupidity of the religious right they will continue their downward spiral.

But as long as we don't try, things will remain the same... or worst still, continue on this downward spiral.

Before too long Brett might offer Stan a place on his staff to help reboot his downward spiraling career.

As long as the problem stands, this will be a downward spiral for Arsenal.

A football club can quickly recover with the right HEAD TEACHER in charge and the only danger to an underachieving football team is in loss of reputation, with consequential loss of long term support and thus a downward spiral.

This downward spiral has been going on for a while and if the board had any ambition of being a top club he would have been sacked a long time ago.

She also cut her husband no slack for the near - fight he had with The Post's Fred Dicker, which sparked his downward spiral in the polls, saying he has been «a dad longer than he's been a candidate, and the candidate should have just walked away.»

«Missed debt and deficit targets coupled with the OBR's downgrading of forecasts have exposed the Chancellor's lack of a long - term strategy for growth and he is now presented with a golden opportunity to reverse the downward spiral which is rapidly leading to increased and institutionalised poverty and unemployment.

On top of that, she was stuck in an unhappy, mentally abusive long - term relationship that pushed her even deeper into the downward spiral of weight gain.

That traumatic emotional or physical event that happened five years ago might have been just enough to send your adrenals on a long - term downward spiral.

But the spiral continues downward, and before long she's even disappointed her faithful teacher, Bennett (Harvey Fierstein).

Benny's downward spiral seems almost destined, considering her mother's (Canelle Hoppé) own problems with drugs, particularly a continuing heroin addiction, and Benny handles everything through her creative impulses, either in her filmmaking or in her uses of different wigs and makeup to change her look (and hide the fact that she hasn't been able to wash her hair in a long time).

After years in a seemingly - endless downward spiral, Sega's long - suffering mascot seems to be moving uphill these days.

Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight, his second sadistic civil war era western in a row, is 187 minutes long and attempts that same downward spiral into mayhem.

Although buoyed by fine acting, The Light Between Oceans drags on too long and a downward spiral toward soap opera melodrama.

Although buoyed by fine acting (even from the supporting cast), The Light Between Oceans drags on too long with a clumsily handled backstory flashback (concerning the girl's birth family) and a downward spiral toward soap opera melodrama as nature struggles with nurture once the biological mother arrives.

But then it transitions from purgatory into a long, languid, surreal, downward spiral of a nightmare.

In court - ordered rehab, Annie attempts to halt her downward spiral by confronting long - buried secrets from the sisters» childhoods, ghosts that Lexie doesn't want to face.

They're likely to continue on the same downward spiral McKenna describes for as long as they do so.

Chop them up, freeze them, whatever you have to as long as you stop the downward spiral.

That is WHY it is not a simple «death spiral» but rather, as I said, a long secular trend downward superimposed on natural wiggles.

Notably, depleting the cash value with a withdrawal may mean the policy will still ultimately need another contribution (i.e., more premiums) to sustain in the long run; nonetheless, if the cash value is in a downward spiral towards lapse anyway, a withdrawal to repay the loan will help extend the life of the policy, given that the crediting rate of the cash value is always lower than the interest rate of the loan compounding against it (which for newer policies might be a 0.5 % to 1 % spread, but on older policies can be a 2 % spread or more).

In a way, positive psychology is like a vaccine — it may not completely prevent or cure depression in everyone but it certainly can help many long - time sufferers of depression from escalating a downward spiral as well as help people bounce back more quickly from adversity.

One factor limiting a positive peer response is that negative reputations develop quickly within peer groups and, once established, are hard to dispel.37 Such reputations are used to defend ongoing exclusion or victimization of rejected children, even if the behaviors that initially led to rejection are no longer present.20 In addition, negative reputations often become self - fulfilling prophecies as rejected children with both social skill deficits and behavioral problems get caught in «a downward [spiral]» 38 (p385).