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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
crisis
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cash crisis (=a serious lack of money in an organization or country)
▪ the cash crisis in some developing countries
a crisis of confidence (=a situation in which people no longer trust a government, system etc)
▪ the crisis of confidence over food safety
a crisis of conscience (=a situation in which it is very difficult to decide what is the right thing to do)
▪ He had a crisis of conscience about whether to take on the legal case.
an economic crisis (=a situation in which there are a lot of problems with the economy, that must be dealt with quickly so the situation does not get worse)
▪ The country’s economic crisis continues to deepen as workers demonstrated against rising food prices.
an energy crisis
▪ Europe could soon face an energy crisis.
an oil crisis (=situation in which there is not enough oil, and the price of oil is very high)
▪ The world is facing an oil crisis.
crisis management (=when you deal with an unusually difficult or dangerous situation)
crisis point (=the point at which a situation becomes extremely serious)
▪ The tensions within the country have reached crisis point.
crisis proportions (=a size that causes very serious problems)
▪ The water shortage was reaching crisis proportions.
crisis talks (=talks to stop a situation getting worse or more dangerous)
▪ The unions will hold crisis talks with the company in a bid to save jobs.
deal with a crisis
▪ The President has flown home to deal with the crisis.
defuse a situation/crisis/row etc
▪ Beth’s quiet voice helped to defuse the situation.
financial difficulties/problems/crisis
fiscal crisis
▪ a fiscal crisis
midlife crisis
resolve a problem/crisis/situation
▪ Action is being taken to resolve the problem.
solve a crisis
▪ Congress had not been able to solve the financial crisis.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
constitutional
▪ Bill Archer is very worried, deeply troubled that a constitutional crisis may be approaching.
▪ Just get it through your tiny 1914-pattern mind that you have started a constitutional crisis!
▪ Was a constitutional crisis at hand?
▪ This trait was in evidence last week as the president, Leonid Kravchuk, threw his country into a constitutional crisis.
▪ In 1861-2 a constitutional crisis arose, whose outcome fundamentally affected subsequent developments.
▪ Mr Ishaq wants all the provincial assemblies dissolved, in order to create a constitutional crisis that will force a general election.
▪ Havel asked the legislature to grant him broader powers to defuse the constitutional crisis.
current
▪ It is a reluctance that already had very interesting echoes for the Middle East, even before the current crisis broke out.
▪ Just as the current crisis has a distinctly familiar ring to it, so too do the solutions being offered.
▪ However, many commentators placed responsibility for the current economic crisis firmly on the Karami government's own policies.
▪ In the north-west, the seat of the current crisis, the situation is different.
▪ The central committee was granted extraordinary powers to take policy decisions during the current crisis period.
▪ It was clear that the longer the current unstable crisis atmosphere persists, the stronger the opposition's bargaining position becomes.
▪ In the face of the current crisis in contract doctrine, however, recent studies have partially overcome this disciplinary isolation.
▪ Prior to the current political crisis, the Senate had been largely supportive of Mr Estrada since he took power in 1998.
economic
▪ In the mid-1970s this picture was about to change, as economic crisis produced widespread unemployment, and particularly high youth unemployment.
▪ Others fret that the system might not provide enough help in times of rural economic crisis.
▪ The following day the government introduced emergency measures to tackle the economic crisis.
▪ The economic crisis reached into every corner of city life.
▪ Mr Major has now flown home to deal with the economic crisis.
▪ On Dec. 23 Alia announced a reshuffle of key economic portfolios in an effort to tackle the country's economic crisis.
▪ Another consequence of the war and economic crisis has been an increasing dependence on external aid.
▪ The economic crisis of 1976 and the advent of Mrs Thatcher's Conservative government in 1979 was to change all that.
financial
▪ However it is well known that a financial crisis in 1866 seriously affected several minor railways throughout the country.
▪ A financial crisis is a second possibility.
▪ That financial crisis weathered, Zyuganov will then have to find the money for large-scale state investment in tumbledown factories.
▪ In his Charlton days, Lawrence was forced to accept any reasonable offer to ease the club's financial crisis.
▪ My initial reaction was relief: We had averted another financial crisis.
▪ After the First World War the voluntary hospitals faced a severe and growing financial crisis.
▪ The district council then had to spend almost £250,000 to bail it out of a financial crisis.
fiscal
▪ Therefore state expenditure tends to increase faster than revenues. Fiscal crisis results.
▪ When fiscal crisis erupts, they consolidate agencies and centralize control.
▪ At present, however, the festivities seem light years away, having been eclipsed by a fiscal crisis of mammoth proportions.
▪ But when economic growth slowed and fiscal crisis hit, the equation changed.
▪ These contradictory roles create a fiscal and legitimacy crisis for the state, which will ultimately he overthrown by the working class.
▪ O'Connor has argued that the expansion of state intervention has led inevitably to fiscal crisis.
international
▪ Water: The international crisis, by Robin Clarke.
▪ Summit participants failed to anticipate the vast inflationary effect of the international oil crisis of the 1970s.
▪ The result could be world recession and a worsening of the international debt crisis.
▪ The strike coincided with international crisis.
▪ Only the style and tone with which he expressed them evolved in unison with the avatars of a progressively deepening international crisis.
▪ From August 1937 until August 1939 the record is of deepening international crisis and disaster.
▪ This is particularly marked on the matter of the last major international crisis faced by this country, the Gulf war.
▪ Ex-loan shark Sam Gwynne reveals his contribution to the international debt crisis.
late
▪ Britain's neighbours have connected the latest crisis, over foot and mouth, with a deeper malaise.
▪ But it was senior Brandon Martin who was determined to lead the team after this latest crisis.
▪ Mr Delors has been widely blamed for causing the latest crisis.
▪ Conspicuously absent was Mr Ruslan Khasbulatov, the abrasive and ambitious Speaker, whose manoeuvring led to the latest crisis.
▪ He would give them family news or the latest domestic crisis.
▪ Not even Mr Morton can play down the gravity of this latest crisis.
▪ The commission was putting a brave face on the latest crisis, saying cases in new countries came as no surprise.
major
▪ Press release of ingratitude At this point there is no need of a major crisis or a profound tragedy to precipitate doubt.
▪ It was the first of our first major crisis.
▪ But one thing is clear: although we know so little about it, this was a major crisis.
▪ It was a major economic crisis with serious social and political repercussions.
▪ The only major crisis in public finance came in 1797.
▪ He realized that without a major crisis there was little chance of selling the program to the Congress or the public.
▪ If a major crisis occurred the United States might find itself sorely embarrassed and perhaps ultimately drawn into the affray.
▪ But we do suggest that people don't rush into new relationships after a major emotional crisis such as bereavement or divorce.
national
▪ Often the emphasis on shared values has been at its greatest in time of war or other national crisis.
▪ There remains the danger that the national farming crisis might mess up the Six Nations fixtures.
▪ The national economic crisis led to the removal of many of the subsidies on foodstuffs.
▪ All Christians and sympathetic fellow-travellers hope for the same from the Church at a time of personal or national crisis.
▪ There is a national crisis of youth crime, but the Bill does not deal with its roots.
▪ Running away from a national crisis, at all events, was conduct that Waugh and Orwell saw as one.
▪ It indicated a willingness to descend to the political arena in circumstances other than those of national crisis.
political
▪ This tip-off sparked a furore in 1992 which swept Ireland into months of political crisis and instability.
▪ Even before the political crisis, the country had failed to meet its commitments to the World Trade Organization.
▪ The political crisis which vastly increased its recruitment could not help but give it an unusual character.
▪ Though it created problems in times of political crisis, it was the price one had to pay for pursuing high ideals.
▪ Prior to the current political crisis, the Senate had been largely supportive of Mr Estrada since he took power in 1998.
▪ He was delighted at Ian Smith's efforts to use the political crisis to make a comeback.
▪ A political and economic crisis of possibly considerable dimensions was avoided by two actions.
▪ Meanwhile it was crucial to prevent popular unrest from spilling over into a major social and political crisis.
present
▪ The issues we are facing in the present crisis of faith touch on what I call the Square One Principle.
▪ This new status may enable the museums to get themselves out of their present crisis situation and implement some plans.
▪ Many accounts of the 1970s present the oil crisis as the key development.
▪ According to the organisers, both races rely on military assistance, which could not be guaranteed in the present crisis.
▪ The consequences of that rift have been thrown into sharp relief by the present crisis.
▪ Our exports are totally dominated by agriculture, so the present crisis is hurting.
▪ But it was not economic distress that precipitated the present crisis.
▪ Unlike earlier financial crashes, the present crisis has particularly affected the rich.
serious
▪ A decade later, there was a more serious crisis.
▪ The most serious crisis in history of mankind, in short, turned on a question of appearances.
▪ There remains a very serious food crisis in Ogaden, which has many causes.
▪ The result, even before the Abbasids, was a serious crisis in the recruitment of public officials.
▪ Typically, companies that were experiencing the most serious crisis were willing to implement change at a faster rate.
severe
▪ He must confront a severe economic crisis: 7m of the country's 12m population are trapped in poverty.
▪ Now, after more than a year of severe crisis, boom times are back.
▪ It was feared that a severe liquidity crisis might ensue and that the world economy would then be plunged into economic recession.
▪ Politics, healthcare, and public education are all in severe crisis.
▪ The devaluation or revaluation of a currency against the dollar was permitted only when a country faced a severe economic crisis.
▪ In fact, the Food Bank does have a severe financial crisis.
▪ The notion that the Social Security system is facing a severe crisis is a vast and cynical overstatement.
sterling
▪ Gold and cash reserves fell by around £2 billion as a result of the sterling crisis.
▪ But after the sterling crisis, Mr Major had been quick to brand the same markets as irrational, Mr Smith declared.
▪ Yet, in the sterling crisis, he put them up to 15 percent for the day.
▪ And by now the Prime Minister has moved on to the next sterling crisis.
▪ Mr Smith said the Premier had not just humiliated himself and his Government through the sterling crisis - he had humiliated Britain.
▪ It reminded them of when Labour Chancellor Denis Healey turned back at the airport in 1976 over a sterling crisis.
▪ Sadly it was cooled by the sterling crisis of July 1966.
■ NOUN
budget
▪ Some opponents of the tax cut also argue that California faces a long-term budget crisis.
▪ Others are banking on the budget crisis in Washington to increase voter dissatisfaction with Dole.
cash
▪ The cash crisis in the Third World will help concentrate the minds of lenders.
▪ Unexpectedly, the satellite radio helped to solve the cash crisis.
▪ St Helens Borough Council has been forced to close the centre because it is facing a cash crisis.
▪ I give three cheers every time there is news of another delay or cash crisis.
▪ Fujitsu sells another 30% to ease its cash crisis.
▪ The closures at Barts have come amid signs of a growing cash crisis this winter in several London health districts.
debt
▪ The accepted wisdom has been that the developing world's debt crisis has been solved.
▪ Those loans are the focal point of the bad-#debt crisis plaguing the financial system and weighing down the economy.
▪ In the debt crisis of the 1980s, the banks ended up losing an awful lot.
▪ The uneven impact of the debt crisis on developing countries can be seen in each of four groups.
▪ The result could be world recession and a worsening of the international debt crisis.
▪ A well researched, highly readable account of the debt crisis.
▪ The so-called debt crisis is clearly not a crisis for everyone.
energy
▪ The forgotten energy crisis Energy for cooking is one of the biggest human needs.
▪ The Senate alone has no fewer than 60 special bills related to the energy crisis.
▪ The Third World faces an energy crisis even without the problems posed by global warming.
▪ Along with the increased possibilities of a recession, the energy crisis was immediately followed by a new inflationary leap.
▪ They had been on to the energy crisis, for example, years before it hit politics.
▪ The so-called energy crisis is really a fossil fuel crisis.
gulf
▪ People know that the Gulf crisis is troubling and contradictory.
▪ Now, six months after the Gulf crisis began, it is as though the world has solidified again.
▪ Spending cuts were announced in November to help the government cope with the impact of the Gulf crisis on oil prices.
▪ The Gulf crisis, though not formally on the agenda, took up much debating time.
▪ On the Gulf crisis, Baker urged the deployment of a token Soviet military contingent as part of the multinational force.
hostage
▪ Rafsanjani's desire to act on the hostage crisis was tied to domestic concerns.
▪ Together, Minnig and Cipriani carry the hopes for a peaceful resolution of the hostage crisis here.
▪ President Bush is being widely praised for his deft handling of the hostage crisis.
▪ The long-term impact of the crisis will likely be determined by the outcome of the hostage crisis.
▪ An impasse in the hostage crisis had been reached, to continue through the summer of 1980.
identity
▪ The party had not yet come to terms with the departure of Mrs Thatcher and was suffering an identity crisis.
▪ Given more time to contemplate the nature of his existence, Doug One suffers from a woeful identity crisis.
▪ In middle age he has experienced a breakdown, an identity crisis, which followed a long illness and an operation.
▪ Why bother being Hollywood if you end up with such an identity crisis?
▪ The result was that the Conservative Party suffered an identity crisis.
▪ Indeed, both parties are undergoing an identity crisis.
▪ Do others who share my fish-related hobbies suffer a similar identity crisis?
▪ Beyond the physical hardships of poverty, he worries about the identity crisis that now afflicts the masses of rural immigrants.
management
▪ It must be borne in mind that there is a crucial distinction between crisis management and crisis resolution.
▪ Its defenders claim that to create the impression of progress is in itself a vital part of crisis management.
▪ They find themselves indulging in crisis management and employing stopgap solutions and holding operations.
▪ These concepts emphasise class, crisis management and bureaucracy.
oil
▪ The loss of confidence in the mid-1970s is usually put down solely to the oil crisis.
▪ Summit participants failed to anticipate the vast inflationary effect of the international oil crisis of the 1970s.
▪ But inflation and unemployment spiralled as the Liberals were hit by the 1973 oil crisis.
▪ In November of 1974, because of the oil crisis, disaster struck Tarrytown.
▪ Cheap solar energy conversion has been a dream of some scientists since the first oil crisis back in the late 1970s.
▪ In the colonial and semicolonial world, the inflationary consequences of the oil crisis promise to be particularly severe.
▪ The oil crisis alone could not have shattered the confidence which capitalists felt during most of the golden years.
▪ Like the oil crisis of the 1970s, the California energy crisis is fueling an investment boom in alternative energy.
point
▪ It was at this crisis point in his career, now aged 32, that Gallacher signed for Derby County.
▪ Recent employee relations surveys had reached an all-time low-significantly below the crisis point in practically every area.
▪ Events were now reaching the crisis point.
▪ I came to a crisis point and knew I had to do something to sort myself out.
▪ Michael Lynagh - below his best, but hits the mark on crisis point.
▪ When these conflicts reach a crisis point, existing dominant groups always fight to maintain the anachronistic form of social organization.
situation
▪ At the same time, the net has helped relief agencies raise further awareness-and money-about crisis situations.
▪ Given the way your organization functions when it functions best, consider how a personnel or labor crisis situation would be handled.
▪ Spokesman Michael Ritchie said it appeared the judges had agreed a crisis situation required crisis measures.
▪ I am in a crisis situation.
▪ This new status may enable the museums to get themselves out of their present crisis situation and implement some plans.
▪ The rise in interest rates, combined with the rise in taxes, brought on a crisis situation.
▪ First, these values may limit conflict in crisis situations.
▪ More generally, theoretical conclusions on the dynamics of agencies and governments in crisis situations, will be considered.
■ VERB
avert
▪ Although this agreement averted a government crisis, Marjanne Sint submitted her resignation as PvdA chair over the issue on Aug. 30.
▪ My initial reaction was relief: We had averted another financial crisis.
▪ Nigel Clough did more than anyone to avert a crisis for his old man.
▪ A global concerted effort is required to avert a global health crisis.
cause
▪ Mr Delors has been widely blamed for causing the latest crisis.
▪ The force would not intervene in whatever fighting caused the humanitarian crisis.
▪ It was not just the veto which caused a crisis of confidence: every member had the right to blackball an applicant.
▪ Mrs Thatcher's gamble, which might have caused a huge crisis and the fall of the government, came off triumphantly.
create
▪ The ones who created this crisis should feel shame.
▪ Proposition 187 has created almost a crisis in the Latino community.
▪ Sometimes, to exercise this quality consistently an unconscious hand may have to be taken in creating a crisis!
▪ Questions 27 and 28 created the very crisis they were meant to avert.
▪ Mr Ishaq wants all the provincial assemblies dissolved, in order to create a constitutional crisis that will force a general election.
▪ Simply put, the insurance industry has created the crisis and manipulated the people as it deemed necessary to increase its profits.
deal
▪ The study will have immediate relevance both in strengthening the capacity of the agencies dealing with the crisis and through transferability elsewhere.
▪ When asked how his constituents were dealing with the crisis, freshman Rep.
▪ Mr Major has now flown home to deal with the economic crisis.
▪ They took a cool professional interest which matched the matter of fact way they were dealing with the crisis of our disintegrating home.
▪ The system is currently designed to deal with crisis, rather than avoiding it.
▪ Arrangements to deal with crisis situations, eg political instability.
▪ Months of dealing with the energy crisis and the growing threat of inflation and recession had taken their toll.
defuse
▪ With an uneasy peace prevailing along the border the international community launched a series of missions to defuse the crisis.
▪ Mr Assad defused that crisis by stripping Rifat of power, but Alawite rivalries remain keen.
▪ Havel asked the legislature to grant him broader powers to defuse the constitutional crisis.
▪ Diplomatic efforts to defuse the crisis have been equally chaotic.
face
▪ Mr. Macdonald Does the Minister accept that the islands economy now faces its worst crisis since the war?
▪ Queretaro also faced an agricultural crisis in 1982.
▪ The raw statistics show that training faces a crisis for many reasons.
▪ Some opponents of the tax cut also argue that California faces a long-term budget crisis.
▪ St Helens Borough Council has been forced to close the centre because it is facing a cash crisis.
▪ And just as well, because yesterday's press was perhaps the worst a prime minister has faced since the Suez crisis.
▪ When you are facing a crisis, it doesn't help when players start mouthing off.
handle
▪ Putin appears to have survived the political storm over his handling of the crisis, according to opinion polls.
▪ If anything, he handled this crisis with more aplomb than the earlier one.
▪ President Bush is being widely praised for his deft handling of the hostage crisis.
lead
▪ Lack of up to date knowledge leading to a potential crisis of confidence.
▪ When low performance leads to an organizational crisis, rumors of executive malfeasance spread like wildfire among rank-and-file members.
▪ O'Connor has argued that the expansion of state intervention has led inevitably to fiscal crisis.
▪ They return to the behaviors that led to the crisis in the first place, and plague returns with a vengeance.
precipitate
▪ A summit failure could still precipitate a new crisis.
▪ My changing musical tastes also precipitated a small crisis in my religious development.
▪ Ironically, in view of what had happened fifty years earlier, it was now the School's success which precipitated the next crisis.
▪ Butsy was sixteen and aware that the trip had been precipitated by a crisis.
▪ However, the Baudrillardian collapse of certainties has precipitated a crisis in our understanding of representation and realism.
▪ A relatively small withdrawal of oil from the world market in October 1973 was sufficient to precipitate an acute crisis.
▪ If they do not, the party could lose its majority in parliament, precipitating a government crisis.
▪ Demonstrations against his policy, which took place from 18-21 April, precipitated a cabinet crisis.
reach
▪ Some of these girls might, however, drift away again when they reach their crisis period.
▪ Racial incompatibility in Yucatan had reached a crisis in 1847.
▪ Now the process has reached crisis point: the organization is about to go bust.
▪ The lack of quake coverage is reaching crisis proportions, the commissioner said.
▪ Events were now reaching the crisis point.
▪ Cynicism has reached crisis levels, Rifkin said.
▪ The two central characters are middle-class sisters whose lives have reached a crisis.
▪ The birth reaches its crisis almost immediately.
resolve
▪ These discussions proved fruitless, with each side blaming the other for the failure to resolve the growing crisis.
▪ The voyage meant to resolve a crisis of separation seemed instead only to promote one.
▪ Even apparent moves by the regime to resolve the crisis turn out on closer inspection to be nothing of the kind.
▪ Each has to resolve the crisis of the castration complex, but their ways of resolving that crisis will differ.
▪ Baldwin's object was then to resolve the crisis with reasonable speed without appearing to force the hand of the King.
▪ The congress had been called specifically to resolve a crisis evident since November 1989 concerning factional splits over the independence question.
▪ Today the fate of humanity hinges on resolving that crisis in relatively short order. 1.
solve
▪ But I can not see it solving the crisis of the socialist left.
▪ I have solved the corn crisis by dedicating a single bed to growing sweet corn.
▪ A pioneer of philanthropic attempts to solve this crisis was Octavia Hill.
▪ I have some suggestions for helping to solve the water crisis felt in some places out west.
▪ At the same time it launched an ideological offensive launched to justify this approach to solving the crisis.
▪ Unexpectedly, the satellite radio helped to solve the cash crisis.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lurch from one crisis/extreme etc to another
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a charity set up to help families in crisis
▪ Cars lined up for gas during the energy crisis of 1972.
▪ In recent years, the country has suffered a profound political and economic crisis, and depravation is acute.
▪ In times of crisis you find out who your real friends are.
▪ She's written a book about the Cuban missile crisis.
▪ The Cuban missile crisis in 1960 was probably the closest we have been to nuclear war.
▪ The Health Service is in crisis.
▪ The President announced his resignation, sparking a crisis in the government.
▪ Their marriage was going through a crisis which almost ended in divorce.
▪ We need someone who can stay calm in a crisis.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At the airport, crews from many nations prepare to fly to the crisis centre.
▪ Babcock countered that the plant's operators had all the information that they needed to cope with the crisis.
▪ Gold and cash reserves fell by around £2 billion as a result of the sterling crisis.
▪ The crisis became a pretext for advocating cuts in public spending of every kind.
▪ When a crisis or dilemma arises, such an organization will resort under duress to its customary self-defeating practices.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crisis

Crisis \Cri"sis\ (kr?"s?s), n.; pl. Crises (-s?z). [L. crisis, Gr. ????, fr. ???? to separate. See Certain.]

  1. The point of time when it is to be decided whether any affair or course of action must go on, or be modified or terminate; the decisive moment; the turning point.

    This hour's the very crisis of your fate.
    --Dryden.

    The very times of crisis for the fate of the country.
    --Brougham.

  2. (Med.) That change in a disease which indicates whether the result is to be recovery or death; sometimes, also, a striking change of symptoms attended by an outward manifestation, as by an eruption or sweat.

    Till some safe crisis authorize their skill.
    --Dryden.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
crisis

early 15c., from Latinized form of Greek krisis "turning point in a disease" (used as such by Hippocrates and Galen), literally "judgment, result of a trial, selection," from krinein "to separate, decide, judge," from PIE root *krei- "to sieve, discriminate, distinguish" (cognates: Greek krinesthai "to explain;" Old English hriddel "sieve;" Latin cribrum "sieve," crimen "judgment, crime," cernere (past participle cretus) "to sift, separate;" Old Irish criathar, Old Welsh cruitr "sieve;" Middle Irish crich "border, boundary"). Transferred non-medical sense is 1620s in English. A German term for "mid-life crisis" is Torschlusspanik, literally "shut-door-panic," fear of being on the wrong side of a closing gate.

Wiktionary
crisis

n. 1 A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point. 2 An unstable situation, in political, social, economic or military affairs, especially one involving an impending abrupt change. 3 A sudden change in the course of a disease, usually at which the patient is expected to recover or die. 4 (context psychology English) A traumatic or stressful change in a person's life. 5 (context drama English) A point in a drama at which a conflict reaches a peak before being resolved.

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WordNet
crisis

  1. n. an unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty; "they went bankrupt during the economic crisis"

  2. a crucial stage or turning point in the course of something; "after the crisis the patient either dies or gets better"

  3. [also: crises (pl)]

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Wikipedia
Crisis

A crisis (from the Greek κρίσις - krisis; plural: "crises"; adjectival form: "critical") is any event that is, or is expected to lead to, an unstable and dangerous situation affecting an individual, group, community, or whole society. Crises are deemed to be negative changes in the security, economic, political, societal, or environmental affairs, especially when they occur abruptly, with little or no warning. More loosely, it is a term meaning "a testing time" or an "emergency event".

Crisis (Fleetway)

Crisis was a British comic book magazine published from 1988 to 1991 as an experiment by Fleetway to see if intelligent, mature, politically and socially aware comics were saleable in the United Kingdom. The comic was initially published fortnightly, and was one of the most visible components of the late-1980s British comics boom, along with Deadline, Revolver, and Toxic!.

Crisis (1946 film)

Crisis is a 1946 Swedish film directed by Ingmar Bergman. The film was Bergman's first feature as director and he also wrote the screenplay, based on the Danish radio play Moderhjertet (translated as The Mother Animal, A Mother's Heart, The Mother Creature, and The Maternal Instinct) by Leck Fischer.

The story follows a young girl living a quiet life in a small town with her foster mother. Nelly is an innocent 18-year-old becoming increasingly aware of the effect that her beauty has on the men of her little Swedish village. Ingeborg is a respectably dour woman who teaches piano to village youth and has undoubtedly sacrificed much for the sake of her foster daughter. As Nelly is on the verge of womanhood and Ingeborg is in failing health, Miss Jenny returns in her fancy hat, painted nails and trampy air of sophistication, to take her long-abandoned daughter away with her to sample the indulgent fruits of urban life.

Jenny has had a rough past, involving prostitution and other scandals, but now owns a beauty salon that’s afforded her a few comforts in life, material and otherwise. Among them is a dapper mustachioed gentleman acquaintance named Jack, who follows Jenny to the village as an uninvited guest. Jenny’s purpose in visiting Nelly was to meet up with her at a charity ball, and when Jack learns about the festivities planned for that night, he’s more than happy to inject more liveliness into the affair than the village elders had in mind.

Crisis (disambiguation)

A crisis is a traumatic or stressful change for a person, or an unstable and dangerous situation for a society.

Crisis may also refer to:

Crisis (band)

Crisis were a British punk rock band formed in 1977. They performed at rallies for Rock Against Racism (RAR) and the Anti-Nazi League (ANL), and at Right to Work marches. British music magazine Sounds used the phrase "Music to March To" to describe their distinctly edgy, controversial and far left form of punk rock.

Crisis (Alexisonfire album)

Crisis is Alexisonfire's third studio album, and the follow-up to Watch Out!. Crisis is one of Alexisonfire's most successful albums.

Crisis (comics)

Crisis, in comics, may refer to:

  • Crisis (DC Comics), a number of stories in the DC Universe, including:
    • Crisis on Infinite Earths, a twelve-issue limited series that "rebooted" the continuity
    • Infinite Crisis, a seven-issue limited series that is the sequel to Crisis on Infinite Earths
    • Final Crisis, a seven-issue limited that is the follow-up to Infinite Crisis
  • Crisis (Fleetway), a 1988–1991 British comic
Crisis (charity)

Crisis is the UK national charity for single homeless people. The charity offers year-round education, employment, housing and well-being services from centres in London, Newcastle, Oxford, Edinburgh and Merseyside, called Crisis Skylight Centres.

As well as year-round services Crisis runs Crisis at Christmas, which since 1972 has been offering food, warmth, companionship and vital services to homeless people over the Christmas period. In 2010 almost 3,000 homeless people visited Crisis at Christmas, which was run by about 8,000 volunteers.

Since its inception Crisis has been a campaigning organisation, lobbying government for political change that prevents and mitigates homelessness based on research commissioned and undertaken by the organisation.

Crisis (1939 film)

Crisis (1939) is a feature-length documentary about the 1938 Sudeten Crisis. It was released briefly before the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia on March 15, 1939. The film was directed by Herbert Kline, Hans Burger, and Alexander Hammid, with narration written by Vincent Sheean and read by Leif Erickson. The National Board of Review named Crisis one of the ten best films of 1939.

Crisis (M*A*S*H)

Crisis was the 45th episode of M*A*S*H, and the 21st episode of the second series. It was first transmitted on February 9, 1974.

Crisis (DC Comics)

A crisis in the DC Universe is an event with potentially great consequences, often involving multiple universes and sometimes even threatening their existence.

From 1963 to 1985 the term "crisis" was used to describe the annual events in which the Justice League of America of Earth-One and the Justice Society of America of Earth-Two met and worked together, usually in an incident involving one or more of the parallel worlds of the DC Multiverse. This usage culminated in 1985's year-long Crisis on Infinite Earths, in which the Multiverse was eliminated. After several years of disuse, the term "crisis" was applied to several events with either "universal" stakes or substantial character consequences, such as Zero Hour: Crisis in Time!, Infinite Crisis, and Final Crisis.

In the two decades after 1985, "Crisis" by itself came to refer specifically to Crisis on Infinite Earths, especially when used in house pre-Crisis and post-Crisis.

Characters in the DC Universe sometimes use the term "crisis" in the same sense, referring either to any great threat, or as "the Crisis" in reference to the events of Crisis on Infinite Earths, either as they happened or as they were commonly remembered in the revised history after the fact.

With the publication of Infinite Crisis, and Final Crisis, the use of the term within the DC Universe has shifted. The Crisis on Infinite Earths is sometimes referred to as "the first Crisis". The Infinite Crisis has occasionally been referred to as simply "the crisis", and a character from the 31st century called it "the middle Crisis"

Crisis (The Deadweights album)

Crisis is the third studio album from American punk rock band The Deadweights. The album was released in September 1985 on Slash Records, and charted on the Billboard Top 200 upon release. The album was produced by legendary punk producer Spot and Nick Fulton of the band Xes. The album is considered to be the band's best offering, and places in many "definitive punk albums" lists. The album is much more political than its predecessors, with subject matter ranging from the NYPD's abuse of power to the Cold War. The band was the subject of a federal case after the PMRC declared the band's song "Reagan Shoots Himself" to be a song promoting terror and a direct threat to Ronald Reagan. To date, the album is the band's best selling, moving over 1 million copies worldwide.

Crisis (1950 film)

Crisis is a 1950 drama film starring Cary Grant and José Ferrer and directed by Richard Brooks (making his directorial debut). The story of an American couple who inadvertently become embroiled in a revolution, it was based on the short story "The Doubters" by George Tabori.

Crisis (Ornette Coleman album)

Crisis is a live album by the American jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman recorded at New York University in 1969 and released on the Impulse! label.

Crisis (TV series)

Crisis is an American drama series that was broadcast as part of the 2013–14 United States network television schedule on NBC as a mid-season entry. The series was created by Rand Ravich for 20th Century Fox Television. The series stars Dermot Mulroney, Rachael Taylor, Lance Gross, James Lafferty, Max Martini, Michael Beach, Stevie Lynn Jones, Halston Sage, Max Schneider, Joshua Erenberg, and Gillian Anderson. Crisis premiered on March 16, 2014.

On May 9, 2014, midway through its first season, NBC canceled Crisis. The network broadcast the remaining episodes starting May 25, with the two-hour series finale airing on June 21.

Crisis (novel by Jorge Majfud)

Crisis is the seventh book of the Uruguayan American writer and literature professor Jorge Majfud. This fourth installment is based on the experiences of the author both as a migrant and a Latino out.

Crisis (Symbyosis album)

Crisis is the first full-length studio album by French death metal band, Symbyosis. It was released on November 15, 2000.

Crisis (journal)

Crisis - The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering suicidology, the study of suicide. It was established in 1980 and is published by Hogrefe Publishing under the auspices of the International Association for Suicide Prevention. The editor-in-chief is Diego De Leo ( Griffith University). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2014 impact factor of 1.482.

Crisis (dynamical systems)

In applied mathematics and Astrodynamics, in the theory of dynamical systems, a crisis is the sudden appearance or disappearance of a strange attractor as the parameters of a dynamical system are varied. This global bifurcation occurs when a chaotic attractor comes into contact with an unstable periodic orbit or its stable manifold. As the orbit approaches the unstable orbit it will diverge away from the previous attractor, leading to a qualitatively different behaviour. Crises can produce intermittent behaviour.

Grebogi, Ott, Romeiras, and Yorke distinguished between three types of crises:

  • The first type, a boundary or an exterior crisis, the attractor is suddenly destroyed as the parameters are varied. In the postbifurcation state the motion is transiently chaotic, moving chaotically along the former attractor before being attracted to a fixed point, periodic orbit, quasiperiodic orbit, another strange attractor, or diverging to infinity.
  • In the second type of crisis, an interior crisis, the size of the chaotic attractor suddenly increases. The attractor encounters an unstable fixed point or periodic solution that is inside the basin of attraction.
  • In the third type, an attractor merging crisis, two or more chaotic attractors merge to form a single attractor as the critical parameter value is passed.

Note that the reverse case (sudden appearance, shrinking or splitting of attractors) can also occur. The latter two crises are sometimes called explosive bifurcations.

While crises are "sudden" as a parameter is varied, the dynamics of the system over time can show long transients before orbits leave the neighbourhood of the old attractor. Typically there is a time constant τ for the length of the transient that diverges as a power law (τ ≈ |p − p|) near the critical parameter value p. The exponent γ is called the critical crisis exponent. There also exist systems where the divergence is stronger than a power law, so-called super-persistent chaotic transients.

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Usage examples of "crisis".

At home at Quincy through the summer, Adams had kept abreast of the crisis in the newspapers.

From the time of their ride to Philadelphia by horseback in the crisis winter of 1776, Adams had felt Gerry was someone to count on, and he was prepared to do just that in the present crisis.

The various nineteenth- and twentieth-century philosophical frameworks of negative thought, from Nietzsche to Heidegger and Adorno, are fundamentally right to foresee the end of modern metaphysics and to link modernity and crisis.

Amefel, the earls must either swear to a man neither aetheling nor Aswydd, or they must defy the Marhanen king, precipitating the very crisis Cefwyn had avoided when he deposed and exiled Orien Aswydd and appointed a viceroy over the province.

My wife was of 46ALL THTNGS WISE AND WONDERFUL no service at all in the crisis and I could only look up at her reproachfully as she leaned against the doorpost dabbing at her eyes.

After the crisis at Muenster, though the Anabaptists continued to be a bugbear to the ruling classes, their propaganda lost its dangerously revolutionary character.

When this crisis was over, she would go home, and he would stay in Los Angeles, and that was the way things were going to be.

Church of Holland is now passing through the most important crisis in its history since the Arminian controversy.

Smiling faces on folks laden with armsful of clothing, toiletries and treats, singing the praises of Bianca Germayne, played very well, especially when counterpointed against local government officials saying that everyone would have to tighten their belts and pull together until the crisis passed.

As his advisers debated the options, Ross Barnett revealed two weaknesses that are common to politicians, but 64AN AMERICAN INSURRECTION would prove potentially disastrous in this crisis: He wanted everyone to love him, and he constantly changed his mind.

So Barnett, alarmed now at the inevitability of both violence and personal financial ruin, began desperately trying to somehow cool down the flames of the crisis without appearing to cave in to the federals.

While some segregationists admired his attempts to resist the federals during the Ole Miss crisis, many ordinary Mississippians viewed the episode as a disaster and a tragedy, and blamed Barnett for mismanaging the crisis.

White House tapes, including Dictabelt phone recordings of his conversations with Barnett and others during the crisis, and Cabinet Room and Oval Office reel-to-reel tape recordings of White House meetings on September 30-October 1, 1962.

In a 1998 interview, James Meredith offered a startling salute to Barnett and his performance during the Oxford crisis.

He had likewise been careful after the crisis to say merely that Bihari could have shown more restraint.