The phrase "accelerating spiral" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or process that is increasingly intensifying or worsening in a cyclical manner.
Example: "The company's financial troubles created an accelerating spiral of debt that was difficult to escape."
Alternatives: "growing cycle" or "intensifying loop".
So how should we arrest the accelerating spiral of a crisis?
We must urgently break this accelerating spiral of escalation" The International Atomic Energy Agency - a "deeply troubling and regrettable act" that is "in complete disregard of the repeated demands of the international community" The latest test was announced on state TV hours after a 5.3 magnitude tremor was detected near the Punggye-ri underground nuclear site.
What they are getting for their efforts so far, said Mormon feminist writer Lavina Fielding Anderson, is "a rapidly accelerating spiral of increased repression I hope can bereversed". The feminists are challenging the prevailing image of Mormon women as happy, deferential homemakers devoted solely to large, well-scrubbed families.
Scientists hope the experiment will prove that pressure from the sun's rays on the sails, which are 20 times thinner than a human hair, will be strong enough to send a spacecraft to be launched in 1990 into a gradually accelerating spiral path away from Earth and into permanent orbit around the sun, Price said.
If the laws of physics were to provide a truly objective description of nature, they ought to be valid for observers moving in any way relative to one another — spinning, accelerating, spiralling, whatever.
Despite being one of the nation's most prestigious sports franchises, dating to 1890, the Dodgers are now in an accelerating financial spiral.
Clutching a brown envelope, filled with briefing notes rather than the folding kind to which the French lead financial prosecutor made such lurid reference later, Lord Coe had already read Dick Pound's second report and was ready to strike a more contrite tone as he sought to pull his sport and his IAAF presidency from an ever accelerating death spiral.
It will reach a turning point when the increasing number of insolvencies and bankruptcies initiate an accelerating downward spiral for underlying asset prices, and drive up the non-performing loan (NPL) ratio for the banks.
High caseloads, little time to undertake appropriate work with families and pressures from managers may accelerate a spiral into poor practice.
Mr Ratner's ill-judged comments accelerated a spiral of decline for Britain's biggest jewellery group which plunged £122.3m into the red in the year to February and is to close 330 shops in Britain and the US.
All asymmetrical wars in the recent past have been lost by the big powers, terrorism is flourishing after Iraq and in spite of drones but we do not learn anything from history and we rush to commit the same mistakes and accelerate the spiral of violence.
