21 Words to use with crises

Crisis government.

La crise du progres.

If we learn the lesson of the present crisis aright, the war, so far from being a set-back to educational progress, should provide a new stimulus for effort and development.]

We can almost always put our finger upon the momentnot, indeed, when the crisis beganbut when we clearly realized its presence or its imminence.

Again on the 27th he writes: We have had a fortnight of crisis consequent on the arrests which I reported to you last week; which may perhaps be the prelude (though I do not like to be too sanguine) to better times.

In this crisis counsels of craft and dissimulation alone found favor in the Emperor's cabinet.

In times of crises crowds will turn to such men and follow them as soldiers follow a captain; for it is patent at a glance that this is a man of men.

This process of tax-evasion has been used by K.A. Wittfogel (1938) to construct a theory of a crisis cycle in China.

Alas, as the days move on and the crisis delays, as life brings the need of labour, the necessity of earning money, as love and friendship lose their rosy glow and settle down into comfortable relations, the disillusionment spreads and widens.

But although the establishment of a permanent system of naval defense appears to be requisite, I am sensible it can not be formed so speedily and extensively as the present crisis demands.

The Berlin Cabinet, who could have prevented the whole of this crisis developing, appear to be exercising no influence upon their ally....

We do, however, constantly apply to real-life crises expressions borrowed more or less directly from the terminology of the drama.

O lady, a crisis hath come in the history of Bharatas for plunging them into calamity!

She was not to be commended for either of those vices; but she was to be commended in that, with all her vices, she was yet ready to give herself just as she was, and with her ways as they were, to Jehovah's side, in the crisis hour of conflict between him and the gods of her people.

New ideas sprang up in exuberance, as would seem entirely natural, because in times of change and crisis men always come forward to offer solutions for pressing problems.

It is after the danger is over, or the first crisis past, that they break down, as it were, and show themselves to belong to the weaker sex.

And in that great crisis prudence was more necessary than valor.

Although army air pilots are accustomed to taking great risks, and seldom go up without the thought flitting through their minds that their hour may be close at hand, still they are human, and when the dreadful crisis springs upon them they can feel the chilly hand that seems to clutch the heart.

In a crisis wages and salaries are less affected than are profits, but wageworkers suffer in the loss of employment.

The over-production theorist seeing that in a crisis warehouses are filled with goods that cannot be disposed of for what they cost (or at best, not so as to give a profit), and that factories are shut down and men are out of employment for lack of demand, declares that productive power has grown too great.

But why should I omit to mention my own diligence and good fortune, and to what a happy crisis affairs are now arrived?

21 Words to use with  crises