Sentence examples for crisis knocking from inspiring English sources

The region's massive megacities, like Brazil's Sao Paulo, with more than 20 million inhabitants, face the challenge of developing a solution for the water crisis knocking on their door.

FRANKFURT — The global financial crisis knocked Germany and the rest of the world badly off course this year.

From the start of 2008 to the spring of this year the crisis knocked $30 trillion off the value of global shares and $11 trillion off the value of homes, according to Goldman Sachs, an investment bank.

Ms Merkel's government topped that up by raising the pension age (gradually, from 65 to 67, starting in 2012), cutting corporate tax rates and almost balancing the federal budget before the crisis knocked it askew.The reforms pushed more people into work and reduced the price of labour (see chart 2), which helped firms take full advantage of the boom in world trade.

The European debt crisis knocked the euro lower for most of the past year.

The crisis knocked the fast-growing economies of the region off their feet.

The owner of Canary Wharf sees the ongoing crisis knock a £500m hole in the value of its property portfolio, while Moss Bros predicts tough times ahead.

Osborne and Cameron rightly damn New Labour's failure to regulate the City – as well as the "bad luck" of the eurozone crisis for knocking them off course.

When a global crisis went knocking at the doors of India, the people of the country chose to uphold the status quo.

Some analysts have warned that the resurgent euro zone crisis could knock investors' appetite for new listings.

The world's economic outlook has improved and there hasn't been a really nasty international crisis to knock things of course (although Ukraine has that potential).