Crises
['kraɪsiːz] or ['kraɪsiz]
Definition
(pl. ) of Crisis
Inputed by Jarvis
Examples
- There may be mysterious workings of the human mind, such as occur only at great crises of history. Plato. The Republic.
- She was, at such crises, sadly deficient in finished manner, though she had once been at school a year. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- So the burden of national crises is squarely upon the dominant classes who fight so foolishly against the emergent ones. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Yet I do not wish to furnish the impression that crises are negligible. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The final result of the incident is that it proves more plainly than ever how unequal I am to certain crises. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- In such crises of readjustment--and the crisis may be slight as well as great--there may be a transitional conflict of principle with interest. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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