Jonathan's apparent determination to cling on to power at all costs risks plunging Africa's most populous nation into a political crisis that could fast spiral out of control.
This may sound a breathtakingly cynical thing to write as the shuttle casts off from the space station and sets off on its long, blindingly fast spiral back to earth.
In that study, the analysis of the pulmonary morphology was performed by a technique involving measurement of the CT attenuation (pulmonary density) using a fast spiral scanner.
Performing the closing seguiriya, she brings an elemental gravitas to her fast spiralling turns, to the gravelly thrust of her footwork and to the small, urgent movements of her head.
It is both a floor for the dancers and a projection screen for the lightning-fast spirals, vectors, pulsating waves and rippling computer graphics that start the performance, exploding to a sharp, rat-a-tat beat as if generated by the sound.
The faster the spiral the harder you will have to grip it.
In this way we spiral into ever faster, more meaningless cycles of spin, sales figures and cynicism.
By developing a fast, continuous "spiral" scanning technique, a full hologram could be recorded in 30 sec.
Things spiralled fast and my time there became a blur of starvation and tears and blackouts and drinking and puking and internet and starving and crying and bleeding and not bleeding and running and laxatives and puking and drinking and diet pills from God knows where and running and fainting and starving.
Gault's actor Grant Bowler explained that "it was a scene about how far and fast things were spiralling out of control [on] the freighter … It was also about his ability to run the ship and that he was willing to go to such great lengths to keep order.
Tempos became faster, bands became meaner, violence began to spiral out of control.
