Hazing is essentially a vicious form of pranking that results in multiple deaths per year.
Likewise, it has meant difficult choices like refusing to participate in public conversations on big issues of our times that are essentially spectacles of vicious verbal fights, and nothing more.
Syria thus entered a vicious circle essentially caused by stalling and procrastination, which resulted in the militarization of the crisis and in extremist movements entering the arena and making use of violence, sometimes in equal measure as the regime.
Fundamentally, being a landlord is an immoral act, but the report shows that, essentially, you have to be actively vicious to fail the "fit and proper" test – and many of these big boy rogue landlords already have.
"You are essentially adding fuel to the fire and creating a vicious cycle".
Groups of investors are suing KV Pharmaceuticals, essentially accusing them of overstating their capacity to be vicious and greedy.
Yet cut the vicious guitars, and the Afghan Whigs were essentially a soul band, albeit one that covered the Temptations with swagger and bite.
During ex-Yugoslavia's vicious internecine wars, the United Nations declared a "safe" area, essentially for its Muslim inhabitants, around the Bosnian town of Srebrenica.
If we internalise that view, perhaps we can adjust the essentially bourgeois paradigm of what constitutes "successful" management and avoid repeating the vicious cycle of inflated expectation, disappointment and rage that inhibits performance.
When Germany, among others, made its objections to any intervention plain, what followed was essentially an à la carte intervention, a "coalition of the willing", led by France and Britain, that avoided the vicious acrimony among allies that dogged Iraq.
