a chicken and egg situation

This may be a chicken and egg situation, because areas with grammar schools have higher average house prices.

It's a chicken and egg situation really.

Probably maybe a bit of a chicken and egg situation and the egg might have come before the chicken?

"It's a chicken and egg situation," said Steve Cowman, chief executive of Greenstar, Ireland's largest waste management company.

This being the case, what we have is a chicken and egg situation, in which the chicken is probably political and the egg is probably economic.

It's sort of a chicken and egg situation we can test more people quickly if we have the staff but we can only have the staff once the test is paid for.

It's "a chicken and egg situation here," said Nigel Howard, a vice president of the U. S. Green Building Council in Washington, which runs a program to rate and certify green commercial buildings.

---- So is our collective mind presenting us with a global ritual of the irrational, leading us into a chicken and egg situation of increasing collective confusion and increasing psychic/psychedelic influence, leading ... where?

But educators say teacher training and curriculum development are a chicken and egg situation: Teachers will not be comfortable enough with the computer to integrate it in the curriculum until they receive better training; better training will not be possible until an effective curriculum using the computer is developed.

Mr President, we are on the horns of a difficult dilemma, and in what we might call a chicken and egg situation; should we have sorted out democracy and put democratic and judicial controls in place, or should effective decision-making come first in order to bring about mass public support for a European democracy?