"There is a crisis afflicting Capitol Hill," the report says.
Such degenerate behaviour, say neoconservatives, indicates a broader and deeper cultural crisis afflicting Western civilization.
The concept offered a diagnosis of the crisis afflicting the advanced liberal democracies at the time.
Steven's story is all too revealing about a silent health crisis afflicting gay men.
Peter Bergen, Paul Cruickshank and Lawrence Wright have in their different ways written about the intellectual crisis afflicting Al Qaeda.
Russia had seemed, after all, to be seeing off the winter-long financial crisis afflicting emerging markets around the world.
"This country has to finally grasp the full dimensions" of the unique economic crisis afflicting it, she said.
But the debt crisis afflicting Greece and dragging down the euro is likely to cast a shadow over his visit.
But an exercise that was merely tedious has become corrosive in the crisis afflicting the city's subways.
They all impose "austerity" programs on their economies as necessary to exit the crisis afflicting them all since 2007.
