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