While they may be compared to those used by Oswald Spengler in The Decline of the West, he rejected Spengler's deterministic view that civilizations rise and fall according to a natural and inevitable cycle.

The croon of the bronzes deepened and Ramoth, still protesting an inevitable cycle of life, stepped slowly away from the eggs.

Not all supporters of Army and Navy accept this down period as part of an inevitable cycle or a sign that the military-sports complex can no longer dominate in football.

The stubble of the harvested wheat reflect the inevitable cycle of death, while the stalks of wheat, flying bird and windswept clouds reflect continual change.

But is phone-card mania just another Dutch-tulip craze at the peak of an inevitable boom-and-bust cycle?

Her extraordinary will-power and leadership broke the seemingly endless and inevitable cycle of national decline, restored the nation's confidence and gave us the feeling that Britain once again counted in the world.

It is not until the Sixteenth Men, the first of the Neptunian artificial species, that the inevitable and deplorable cycle of rise and collapse of civilization is finally ended, and steady progress takes its place.

Built, physical environment have an inevitable cycle of decay - equally inescapable for non-physical institutions.

Even the smart trades of Craig Patrick won't avert the inevitable cycle of decline.

President Herbert Hoover and other conservatives felt that the Depression was an inevitable part of the business cycle that would " 'purge the rottenness' out of the economy."