But in each case, the sensation is self-reinforcing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Addiction: How to Break the Chain] Reference

And this has a self-reinforcing effect on the Tories.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

MARTIN: No, it is self-reinforcing, and I agree with that.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 26, 2008] Reference

A confluence of multiple, self-reinforcing factors, including.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Coker: Why E-Books are Hot and Getting Hotter] Reference

But it becomes self-reinforcing: People fear it, so they sell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is a Crash Coming? Ten Reasons to Be Cautious] Reference

There's a self-reinforcing cycle of positive stories happening.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Roberts: Greens Have Finally Got the Big Mo] Reference

The problem for Brown is that this kind of story is self-reinforcing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Authority? What authority?] Reference

Then begins the reversal process, and that becomes self-reinforcing, too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edward Harrison: The recession is over but the depression has just begun] Reference

The hubs of ultra-poverty in British council estates are self-reinforcing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

Feedbacks could make a temporary dip spiral into a self-reinforcing decline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chamberlin, Thomas Chrowder] Reference

Neoconservatives voice an ideology based on two self-reinforcing principles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Schwartz: Obama's Biggest Challenge: Foreign Policy Revanchism] Reference

And it just has a self-reinforcing effect, I think, on people who cover politics.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2004] Reference

The whole premise that this is a “self-reinforcing downward cycle” is totally false.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scamville: The Social Gaming Ecosystem Of Hell] Reference

And what you're seeing now is kind of a vicious cycle setting in, a self-reinforcing cycle.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 17, 2008] Reference

A lot of the economic cycle is self-reinforcing (the change in inventories is one example).    From Wordnik.com.  [Edward Harrison: The recession is over but the depression has just begun] Reference

This student/teacher relationship is self-reinforcing, and the most rewarding part of this job.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contributor: Mark Brown] Reference

The Rev. Jim Wallis lives in a world where his self-reinforcing ideas become his divine reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scott Swenson: Rev. Jim Wallis Needs a Reality Check on Abortion Reduction Plank] Reference

A source of hope is that once nations start on a low-carbon pathway, it becomes self-reinforcing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carl Pope: Lessons From Denmark] Reference

They are still the right thing to do, they make employees feel good, and they are self-reinforcing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making Cars With A Conscience] Reference

The big fear, of course, is that emigration will check economic growth or, worse, become self-reinforcing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Down the Drain] Reference

Third, when things go wrong in the financial system, they can go wrong in a self-reinforcing and violent way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gauging the New Normal] Reference

The problem with greed is that it's open-ended, infinite, self-reinforcing -- a positive feedback loop, like cancer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philip Slater: Bank Regulation Isn't Enough, We Need Parasite Repellent] Reference

By offering consumers a low cost digital product, the economics of ebooks create a virtuous, self-reinforcing cycle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Coker: Why We Need $4.00 Books] Reference

"We use the music as the lure, but then the actual volunteer feeling becomes self-reinforcing after that," says Greene.    From Wordnik.com.  [Volunteering … and a Show] Reference

They fire more people; that causes consumers to pull back even more and you get in this self-reinforcing cycle downward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Economists Question Keynes-Inspired Stimulus] Reference

That kind of self-reinforcing fear is symptomatic of a secular bear market, where bearish sentiment trumps fundamentals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Market's 7-Day Rout Leaves U.S. Reeling] Reference

In this light, 21st century statecraft may be producing "imaginary cosmopolitans" addressing a self-reinforcing audience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andrew Rosen: Messy Digital Diplomacy] Reference

Because they circle the wagons so tightly, they don't recognize how identical, self-reinforcing and out-of-touch they are.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Hayden: Why Hillary Makes My Wife Scream] Reference

Moreover, because our brains are designed to mirror the responses of those around us, the cycle can become self-reinforcing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maia Szalavitz: Fear and the Brain] Reference

The problem here is that these two - the economic down-turn and the threat of an environmental crisis - are self-reinforcing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jay Mandle: Our Twin Crises] Reference

It's a self-reinforcing cycle that results in women-centered films being branded genre films, McEwan told The Huffington Post.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women-Made Films Mostly Ignored by the National Film Registry. Why?] Reference

It will become a self-reinforcing cycle of easier ways for consumers to be green, and greater demand for companies to offer green.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Hall: The New, Less Pungent Scent of Green] Reference

Falling prices lead households and businesses to hold onto cash rather than spend it, creating a self-reinforcing cycle of misery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Federal Reserve's James Bullard: Long-term deflation is a possibility] Reference

(It's self-reinforcing: risk averson leads to defeat which leads to even greater risk aversion which leads to even greater defeats.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary Camp: No One Is Winning This Race Without Super-Delegates] Reference

It can be difficult to determine which market prompts the initial move, as large swings in oil and the dollar can be self-reinforcing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oil futures rise sharply] Reference

The more apps the software guys created, the more appealing Windows became, so it was a self-reinforcing phenomenon, a virtuous circle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back to the Future] Reference

In the 1970s and 80s, I was the Schaeffer version of a Far Right Franklin Graham-type of harsh and absolutist self-reinforcing extremist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frank Schaeffer: Understanding Franklin Graham's Hate of the "Other"] Reference