Crossword clues for crises
crises
- Critical situations
- War precipitators
- Pulse quickeners
- Major emergencies
- Troubled times
- Times for cool heads
- Reasons to call 911
- Pivotal periods
- Nixon's six
- Nerve-racking situations
- Emergency situations
- Dire situations
- Crucial situations
- Calamitous situations
- Boiling points
- "Six ___" (Richard Nixon's first book)
- Calamities
- They're more than pinches
- Dramatic situations
- Critical times
- Nixon's "Six ___"
- Decisive moments
- Stressful times
- Turning points
- Crucial times
- Tense times
- Nixon's sextet
- Crucial moments as cold gets stronger
- Emergencies? Charlie does his best!
- Times of great danger
- Tough times
- Situations requiring firm leadership
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crisis \Cri"sis\ (kr?"s?s), n.; pl. Crises (-s?z). [L. crisis, Gr. ????, fr. ???? to separate. See Certain.]
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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.
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(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.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of crisis English)
WordNet
See crisis
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)]
Wikipedia
Crises is the eighth record album by Mike Oldfield, released in 1983 on Virgin Records. Oldfield's well known hits " Moonlight Shadow" and " Shadow on the Wall" appear on the album.
Crises refers to the plural of crisis.
Crises may also refer to:
Laboratoire CRISES (or Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires en sciences humaines et sociales) is a French research centre in humanities and social sciences, founded in Montpellier, France, in January 2009.
It brings together about 100 scholars and 200 PhD students working in the field of Humanities and Social Sciences : History, History of Art, Archaeology, Classics, Fine Arts, Law, Political Sciences, Economy, Spanish and French Literature, Educational Sciences, Ethnology, Psychanalysis, Philosophy, Theology. The director of Crises is, for the time being, Frédéric Rousseau (elected in 2008, December), Professor of Contemporary History, University of Montpellier.
Usage examples of "crises".
The Indo-Pakistani crises of 1990, 1999, and 2002 were all sparked by blatant Pakistani support for Kashmiri insurgents, and in every case India was restrained from responding as it would have liked by fear of escalation to nuclear war.
The most difficult questions I was always asked by my bosses were those such as, "Why should we devote all of these resources to Iraq to head off a problem that we may have in the future, rather than using them to solve the crises we have right now in Somalia, Bosnia, Haiti, Kosovo, etc.
Probably Saddam's greatest advantage was that after six years of sanctions and regular crises with Iraq, many nations had grown weary of the whole affair.
And when the president found himself in domestic political turmoil as a result of the Monica Lewinsky affair, avoiding foreign policy crises became an even higher priority.
REGIME CHANGE AND CONTAINMENT, 1999-2002 The painful eighteen months of repeated crises with Saddam that culminated in Desert Fox had brought about an important change in the administration's thinking toward Iraq.
Not surprisingly, it was Vice President Gore and his staff who remained most interested in the regime change plan, or at least an aggressive containment policy, to head off the possibility of future Iraq crises if they inherited the White House in the 2000 elections.
Finally, there are many other countries that would like to see all of the sanctions on Iraq lifted because they dislike the idea of the United Nations imposing such strict sanctions on any country (because they might be next) and because they are weary of constant crises with Saddam.
However, as other, equally thoughtful academics have pointed out, "the early phase of the Cold War, before crises over Berlin and Cuba worked out the limits to probes and provocations, is a less reassuring model.
Indeed, a major study on nuclear weapons crises concluded that "a regional predator will find a small nuclear arsenal a powerful tool for collapsing regional military coalitions that the United States might craft to oppose such a future opponent.
It is the one policy that would guarantee us that we will not have to endure multiple nuclear crises with Saddam or fight a war against a nuclear-armed Iraq.
The status quo means more of the same: more crises with Iraq, someday with the added incendiary of nuclear weapons.
You will be faced with a series of crises, as you are now faced with the first, and in each case your freedom of action will become similarly circumscribed so that you will be forced along one, and only one, path.
I should think the synchronization of the two crises, inner and outer, puts it beyond all doubt.
There have been two Seldon crises so far, and both times the Foundation was in danger of extermination.
So the solutions to the various crises must be achieved by the forces that become available to us at the time.