If that, in turn, boosts construction employment, a vicious housing cycle could turn virtuous.
It also suggests an even more extreme version of Britain's vicious housing politics, the cleared estates, the evictions of rioters and their families.
Throughout the remainder of the week, the Battle of Ortona degenerated into a small-scale version of the Battle of Stalingrad, with vicious house-to-house fighting through the narrow streets and debris of Ortona.
Yet while his cast includes sadistic plantation owners and vicious overseers, "house Negroes" and field slaves, James deftly avoids the clichéd melodrama such characters all too often inspire.
Linares was now cut, over his left eye, but this did not prevent him clumping Crolla with a vicious round-house to his temple.
But it remains unclear if lending by diktat will be enough to stem the vicious downturn in house prices, especially if the market is so weak that an increased supply of mortgage loans is not sopped up by adequate demand.
Hopefully, we will be able to work through this inventory of homes before we enter into a vicious cycle where house prices sink further because buyers bail out of existing mortgages and buyers are reluctant to enter the market at any price.
Vicious cuts to housing support have expelled the financially defenceless from city centres, devastating support networks, employment opportunities and communities.
Vicious cuts to housing support have expelled the financially defenseless from city centers, devastating support networks, employment opportunities, and communities.
Simon Johnson, the IMF's director of research, said later the key risk to the forecasts was the danger of a vicious circle emerging, as house prices continue to fall, dealing a fresh blow to the banks, and exacerbating the problems in the markets.
