The phrase "absorb crisis" is not commonly used in written English and may not convey a clear meaning.
It could be used in contexts discussing how an organization or system manages or withstands a crisis, but it may require additional context for clarity.
Example: "The company had to absorb the crisis and adapt its strategies to survive the economic downturn."
Alternatives: "manage the crisis" or "withstand the crisis".
The people are used to feeling the ripple effects of Haiti's problems — hurricanes, political violence, grinding poverty — but have never had to absorb a crisis like the earthquake last week.
And it must insist that as a bare minimum the system has enough capital and liquidity to absorb a crisis as bad as the last one.The good news is that big banks probably now have enough capital to absorb the aggregate loss rate suffered by the system from 2007 to 2009 (although their build-up of liquidity reserves has been patchier).
New Yorkers, it would seem, remain as self-congratulatory and chauvinistic as ever, and understandably proud of how they have absorbed this crisis.
The masses who continue to suffer were being forced once again to absorb this electoral crisis and participate in a "selection", as they say in the local parlance.
They paint a picture of informal caregiving where caregivers assume responsibility for their loved one's day to day care, triage any health care crises, absorb financial burdens big and small, and tend to underestimate how much time and how stressful being a caregiver will truly be.
Western military officers are advising the Macedonians, but diplomats believe that the government and military have only a limited capacity in this crisis to absorb foreign advice.
The two possibilities were to drop the stable $1 a share value of money fund shares, or to add some sort of capital buffer to absorb losses in a crisis.
Deutsche Bank has long faced criticism that its capital buffers, the money that banks set aside to absorb losses in a crisis, were inadequate and that it carried too much risk from derivatives and other volatile investment banking products.
This is hard to absorb emotionally during a crisis.
Tiger could not have been the only firm notified about the share placement Bank of America's stake in CCB was too large for a single firm to absorb, particularly at that crisis-infused time.
