1. crisis
That crisis threatened to split the nation in two.
Their company survived the crisis.
A crisis in France could be bad for America.
Were a serious crisis to arise, the government would have to act swiftly.
For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime — two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century.
It is essential to keep calm in a time of crisis and avoid going haywire.
Let us remember that, if this financial crisis taught us anything, it's that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers.
We have to look the future straight in the eye and prepare to get through the coming crisis.
Within the rape crisis movement, Greesite's dissent is significant.
During a crisis, e.g. divorce, people eat more junk food.
In times of crisis one should never idealise the past.
Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
Britain's currency crisis has turned into a political one over government failure to stop the pound from going into free-fall.
It was under these circumstances that the constitutional crisis began.
Black money scandal, 11th of September, expenseuro, the Old Europe, Hartz IV, Madame Chancellor, fanmile, climatic catastrophe, financial crisis, wreckage bonus and citizen of anger are the last ten words of the year in Germany.