Sentence examples for devastating spiral from inspiring English sources

Enron's devastating spiral into Chapter 11, for example, was related to violations of financial covenants.

This occurred at the same time that organized labor, the most effective force fighting on behalf of the middle class and other working Americans, was caught in a devastating spiral of decline.

It was only a year ago that these Orioles finished 28 games behind the Yankees, rising from the depths of last place to ruin the Red Sox, beating them five times in late September, knocking them out of the playoffs and sending him on a devastating spiral on the final night of the 2011 regular season.

This ultimately lowers prevailing market valuations and creates a devastating spiral that is hard to escape as the public markets contract and less money is available in the original pension funds and endowments to allocate toward high-risk asset classes.

In addition, decreased mobility and immobility lead to a devastating spiral of further disability and health problems.

"It may take at least another five years," concedes another senior UN official involved in frustrating efforts to try to bring an end to this devastating downward spiral.

But most devastating was the downward spiral of the singer's only child, Bobbi Kristina Brown, who died in July at the age of 22 after being found unconscious in the bathtub of her suburban Georgia town home a few weeks before the anniversary of her mother's death. .

The spiral devastated the industry.

Never-ending foreclosures cause housing prices to continue swooning and risk a deflationary spiral that could be devastating.

Anti-government demonstrations against socialist President Nicolás Maduro have erupted amid a spiraling economic crisis and devastating food shortages.

Manager Jerry Manuel called both those losses devastating, and either could have sent the Mets spiraling into a 2007-like collapse.