Collocations withcrisis
These are words often used in combination withcrisis.
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acute crisis
Another lesson is that an acute crisis may be used by politicians to make unpopular, but in a long-term view important reforms.
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banking crisis
Such lending will certainly ease a liquidity-induced banking crisis, but it will also have important general equilibrium effects on the economy.
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budget crisis
A similar deadlock can occur within a presidential system, where it is also known as a budget crisis.
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budgetary crisis
Yet we continue to hear that councils are facing a budgetary crisis and are having to make massive cuts in education.
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constitutional crisis
Any of these vetoes would have raised the constitutional crisis to a higher level.
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continuing crisis
One of the main responses by aid agencies to this continuing crisis has been the extension to the displaced of changes occurring in aid policy more generally.
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crisis of conscience
Alternatively, a civil servant may face a crisis of conscience about policies or actions that he has been asked to carry out.
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crisis proportions
There it has more or less reached crisis proportions.
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crisis response
First, dispersed groups will not have strong preferences about the technical specifics of crisis response policies.
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currency crisis
Although surely not the whole story, self-referential learning dynamics do offer a fresh perspective on the recent currency crisis literature.
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current crisis
The current crisis involves a continuous struggle over the drawing of boundaries, because the boundaries of the public space are constantly negotiated.
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debt crisis
It focused on an agricultural bank that would solve the village debt crisis and, by implication, transfers of land to foreigners.
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deep crisis
After a deep crisis between 1990 and 1993, the government was forced to implement a series of reforms that were clearly market oriented.
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deepening crisis
There is nothing of any great cheer for those who live in rural areas, which are suffering greatly in a deepening crisis.
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diplomatic crisis
That was the crisis; it was not a military crisis, it was not a diplomatic crisis.
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ecological crisis
An ecological crisis may be looming ' in the near future ' (p. 184).
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economic crisis
At a time of economic crisis and unemployment, this attitude bred prejudice and intolerance.
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energy crisis
At the same time, we need to deal with the energy crisis.
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environmental crisis
Perhaps we should conclude that we are now living in a landscape crisis, an environmental crisis and presumably in a crisis of dwelling, too.
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existential crisis
The diagnosis of an incurable disease implies an existential crisis.
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financial crisis
The transforming labour market after the financial crisis.
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fiscal crisis
Even the fiscal crisis that had been brewing in the 1970s and had boiled over in the 1980s had apparently been resolved.
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global crisis
This passion for understanding was the product of conjuncture, the simultaneous explosion of global crisis-intellectual, economic, political and moral.
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grave crisis
In the grave crisis of the war which we are now facing the pacifists are continuing their mischievous activities as far as they can.
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growing crisis
The growing crisis has been exacerbated by early retirement and by disillusioned teachers quitting the classroom.
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health crisis
The most common reason for referral was a health crisis, covering 46 per cent of users and nine per cent of carers.
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housing crisis
Many small builders, often with no former experience, nevertheless tried their hand at a house or two, thereby helping to avert a housing crisis.
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humanitarian crisis
The principle of sovereignty is now under siege, so that under grave humanitarian crisis the international community should have the upper hand.
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hypertensive crisis
An acute pulmonary hypertensive crisis was the most likely cause of death.
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immediate crisis
The second step entails a search for solutions intended to cope with the immediate crisis as well as to avoid similar crises in the future.
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impending crisis
One would in the light of past events predict the 'venerable patriarch' to intervene, to stave off an impending crisis.
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international crisis
Neither changes in time nor the effects of international crisis be effectively appraised.
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liquidity crisis
Press experienced an acute liquidity crisis at that time, and here interpretations of events vary sharply.
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looming crisis
Such education will not be easy, but it is vital if we are to produce a generation of citizens capable of coping with the looming crisis of the human species.
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major crisis
For more than twenty years - until 1855 in fact, the year of the second great cholera epidemic - there was no major crisis in mortality.
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moral crisis
Great changes are under way in this region in all areas of social life and under conditions of severe economic and moral crisis.
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mortgage crisis
The motion refers, among other things, to the growing mortgage crisis and to the need for a mortgage rescue scheme.
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oil crisis
As long as oil-consuming countries continue to maintain oil reserves that can be used to cushion supplies, the prospects for future oil crisis decline.
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ongoing crisis
We recommend that post-hoc analyses of this sort should become part of preventative and proactive policy rather than part of a reaction to an ongoing crisis.
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periodic crisis
This provoked periodic crises, as speculators sold sterling in anticipation that the government would devalue the pound.
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political crisis
This article reconnects the political crisis of 1866-7 with the two decades of debate that preceded it.
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potential crisis
In the face of this potential crisis, the discharge policy was abruptly exchanged for one of aggressive rehabilitation.
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present crisis
One source of the present crisis has to be sought in this particular conjunction of circumstances.
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profound crisis
Cultural pessimism and a profound crisis of masculinity had not prevented new, progressive images of women to surface.
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recurrent crisis
Like us, they show how adaptive learning dynamics can generate recurrent crises (hyperinflations in their case).
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refugee crisis
In this way the refugee crisis became a political instrument for staging ethnic conflict.
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savings and loan crisis
The savings and loan crisis of the 1980s brought the issue to national attention.
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serious crisis
We excluded three variables that were highly prevalent (current employment and the network stressful life events of a serious crisis or serious illness).
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severe crisis
First, the severe crisis of the 1980s created incentives for the development of more effective policies of taxation.
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spiritual crisis
It is a profound spiritual crisis, as we see in the landscape the consequences of our own sin.
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subprime crisis
The subprime crisis demonstrated that the framework for the operation of credit rating agencies needs to be significantly reinforced.
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succession crisis
A fierce succession crisis ensued, in which claims to religious truth, history, hereditary power and even access to the unseen world were invoked to support the rights of rival factions.
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successive crisis
We have squandered our wealth and in every successive crisis we have given way and given in; but alas!
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terrible crisis
That means a terrible crisis for the parent who is left to bring up the children.
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