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crisis

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

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 ) ...

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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 ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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, ...

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n. an unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty; "they went bankrupt during the economic crisis" a crucial stage or turning point in the course of something; "after the crisis the patient either dies or gets better" [also: crises (pl)]

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.