The vicious circle has been shattered. Canadians now enjoy the benefits of the virtuous circle.

We were caught in a trap of our own making - a vicious circle in which our chronic deficits contributed to economic lethargy, which in turn contributed to even higher deficits, and then to greater malaise.

I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation.

Describe a circle, stroke its back and it turns vicious.

This breaks that vicious circle of retaliation. And you never get to the bottom of it with two kids; it becomes about who's lying.

But the Joint Committee is not meeting, so we are in a vicious circle at the moment.