The phrase "a devastating cycle of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a repetitive and harmful pattern or situation that has serious negative consequences.
Example: "The community is trapped in a devastating cycle of poverty and crime that seems impossible to break."
Alternatives: "a harmful pattern of" or "a destructive loop of".
An Entertainment, from 1990, remains piercingly new with its violently abrupt clips of Mr Punch magnified on four vast screens that enclose the viewer in a devastating cycle of assault and battery, with Punch's demonic repetitions "Nasty baby!
The Sahel region of West Africa (Niger, Chad, Mali, Nigeria and others) is stuck in a devastating cycle of "food insecurity," facing its third drought in a decade.
The review of investment strategy in the oil, gas and mining sectors grew out of a fierce debate over whether the development of those industries could consistently help countries alleviate chronic poverty, or would instead fuel a devastating cycle of corruption and conflict.
In February 2011, after the revolution in Tunisia and as opposition was brewing in Egypt against the regime of President Hosni Mubarak, she criticised Arab leaders in a UN report for failing to provide jobs and education for youth, warning of a "devastating cycle of unemployment".
CSH and other organizations are innovating and changing systems to build more effective solutions so that we can end the devastating cycle of long-term homelessness.
If we do not invest in this generation, I believe that the devastating cycle of unemployment will continue.
Since 1999 this artist, who divides his time between Beirut and Brooklyn, has been compiling an archive that blends fact and fabrication about the devastating cycles of violence in contemporary Lebanon.
That is the opening sentence for the organization's recent three-year strategic plan, and it's a difficult one to argue with, as the ultimate goal of the Women's Bean Project is to help liberate women from the devastating cycles of poverty, domestic violence, incarceration, drug dependency and chronic unemployment.
A new innovative app hopes to disrupt that devastating cycle.
For without a concerted global response to the problem of dirty money, the world's money-laundering machine will be off on yet another devastating cycle.
PHN is a devastating consequence of HZ that significantly affects patient quality of life.
