Sentence examples for crisis ripped from inspiring English sources

Then the financial crisis ripped this consensus apart.

It is just a little more than four years since a financial crisis ripped apart the world economy, destroying millions of jobs and stunting millions of lives.

It was meant to be the unstoppable economic force bringing prosperity to rich and poor alike, but that was before the financial crisis ripped up the rulebook.

Dolphin is also concerned that few lessons have been learned since the crisis ripped through the financial markets and the global economy:  "Strong growth in the short-term does not mean that structural weaknesses in the UK economy that became more evident during the 'Great Recession' have been eliminated.

The crisis ripped a huge hole in the nation's finances as a steep economic downturn caused a sharp fall in government tax receipts.

Everyday we read and see how that crisis rips through the country: families using up their savings; grads moving back home with career dreams deferred; the longtime jobless giving up hope.

That does not mean that the country is in danger of returning to the sort of foreign-exchange crisis that ripped through it in 1997 and 1998.

But the overarching message of the OBR's assessment of the economy was that Britain's productivity - the key to future economic growth - has been dealt a permanent blow by the financial crisis that ripped through the global economy in 2008-09 and sent the UK plunging into recession.

But the crisis has ripped apart families, creating generational divides pitting parents nostalgic for the Soviet past against their European-focused children.

It was taken during a protest of the Food and Drug Administration, the organization that failed to take immediate action during the AIDS crisis that ripped Reagan-era America apart.

This crisis is ripping the fabric of the force apart.