Sentence examples for cycle of actions from inspiring English sources

"[Ban] urges both parties to exercise utmost restraint and reverse their unhelpful cycle of actions and counter-actions," said UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric.

The theoretical concept of a telemedicine-based peer review represents a cycle of actions that may be presented as a chain: "discrepancies evaluation – routine support – quality improvement activity – discrepancies evaluation".

As Howard predicted, the "War on Terror" could well go on and on — an endless cycle of action and reaction, which some commentators almost seem to revel in.

"I learned that with dialogue you can change the minds of extremists, but that just fighting brings only a cycle of action and reaction," he told the Guardian in 2007.

This Newtonian cycle of action and reaction, of electronic creation and destruction was first and most beautifully attacked by Budd Schulberg in his screenplay for "A Face in the Crowd" (1957).

But such videos turn the internet into a grisly public square where we all gather and watch in horror, then disband, unwittingly participating in a macabre cycle of action and reaction.

How will they explain that?" Organizers dispersed triumphantly on Sunday, though it was unclear what would come next in the cycle of action and reaction between the authorities and protesters.

"We've had a cycle of action and reaction that we thought was counterproductive and difficult," said the department's spokeswoman, Victoria Nuland, adding that the next meetings were intended to "improve the atmosphere".

Zakaria al-Qaq, a professor of national security at Al Quds University here and a resident of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, also described the situation as a hopeless "cycle of action and reaction," and said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was under pressure to act because of the Israeli elections on Jan . 22

"We hope our analysis and tools can help Israelis, Palestinians and the international community understand more clearly how present trends are evolving and recognize the costs and benefits of alternatives to the current destructive cycle of action, reaction and inaction," said C. Ross Anthony, co-leader of the study and director of RAND's Israeli-Palestinian Initiative.

While more than 300 were killed in Nigeria's presidential election four years ago, the death toll appeared to be higher this year, as the violence that flared in the wake of the election of Nigeria's president, Goodluck Jonathan, a Christian from the south, instigated a cycle of action and reaction.