Sentence examples for a cascade of crises from inspiring English sources

The book offers a portrait of a White House operating under intense pressure as it dealt with a cascade of crises, from insolvent banks to collapsing carmakers.

Yet since the death of Osama bin Laden on Pakistani soil exactly one month ago, Pakistan's great fissile firepower has appeared curiously impotent, as the military reels before a cascade of crises that underscore weakness, not strength.

What happened between the overnight session in 2011 and the one that ended early Monday morning is a study of how decisions made in closed conference rooms in Brussels — often in the middle of the night and invariably couched in impenetrable jargon — help explain why the so-called European project keeps getting blindsided by a cascade of crises.

For Ms. Rice, whose day job since she started July 1 has been a cascade of crises from Syria to the furor over the National Security Agency's surveillance activities, the review was also a way to put her stamp on the administration's priorities.

Soon the loan bills came due, and Athens couldn't pay, which triggered a cascade of crises and bailouts (though more for European banks than the Greek people).

In some instances, older adults or their caregivers have to deal with the consequences of a cataclysmic event (e.g., an injurious fall) [ 46] that sets into motion a cascade of crises where instant and unavoidable long-term care decisions are made on an ad-hoc basis.

The last two years have witnessed a cascade of interconnected crises: financial panic, rising food and oil prices, climate shocks, a flu pandemic, and more.

As president, he rarely had a chance to rest given the endless cascade of crises as visitors will experience in the Decision Points Theater.

But for those who have had to work with her, live with her mistakes or investigate her colleagues for corruption – or worry about whether Brazil will ever emerge from its cascade of crises – there is also a sense of relief that months of political gridlock may be coming to an end.

That experience laid the foundation for her to face the cascade of crises that would follow: her father's political losses, the revelations that he had an affair and a child with his campaign videographer while he was running for president in 2008, her mother's public and prolonged battle with breast cancer, and then in December, her mother's death.

That's because the threat of a disorderly Greek default – which could still take place inside the euro – has the potential to trigger a cascade of bank runs and knock-on crises across the eurozone whose impact could dwarf the Lehmans crash of 2008.