Sentence examples for crisis detonated from inspiring English sources

The region endured a severe financial crisis, detonated in 1997 by the devaluation of the Thai currency.

As Europe's financial centre, the UK had been particularly vulnerable to a crisis detonated deep in the banking industry.

The financial crisis, detonated by greed and recklessness on Wall Street and in the City of London, is for the West a deep, self-inflicted wound.

For when the global economic and financial crisis detonated with full fury in the fall of 2008, Ireland's own version of the real estate asset bubble imploded, transforming the balance sheets of the nation's major banks into a toxic waste dump.

But a poll published Tuesday in the daily El Comercio showed that Fernando Olivera, the congressman who detonated the crisis by making the compromising videotapes public, has the same level of popular support.

The Mets, who began the night with their offense in a numbing idle and in the midst of their first genuine identity crisis of the season, detonated in a crazy cacophony of hits -- singles, doubles and a home run of giant proportions that echoed through the night.

Those crises that have not already detonated will be flying at him fast and from all directions.

As the housing, credit and economic crises proceeded to detonate, prospects for completing residential construction projects small and large vaporized.

One of the most dramatic attacks came in July 2012, when insurgents detonated explosives inside a high-level crisis meeting in Damascus, killing four top regime officials, including the brother-in-law of President Bashar Assad and the then-defense minister.

The Wisconsin Project for Nuclear Arms calculates that a medium-size nuclear device detonated near the Mall would cause extensive damage and radiation downtown, where the White House, Federal Bureau of Investigation and State Department crisis centers are situated.

When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis.