Sentence examples for emergency given from inspiring English sources
It was to aid the police in addressing an "ongoing emergency," given that the person who shot Mr. Covington had a gun and was on the loose.
Producers lost that option when the unions representing actors and stagehands decided to honor the musicians' picket lines, a move that effectively shut down musical Broadway and created a sense of economic emergency, given the strike's impact on restaurants, hotels, taxis and other theater-related businesses.
We may speculate that participants in this study view the decision-making in this context as an emergency given the limit of resources and time.
In economically deprived areas, ready money is hard to come by which is a deterrent to moving a woman to an institution in an emergency, given the possible loss of wages for family members long distances, non-availability of reliable transport (hence needing to arrange transport privately), poor road network and uncertain quality of institutional care.
An emergency gives reading a practical urgency, but practical urgency and literature have little business mixing.
On 9 November the government declares a state of emergency, giving prefects curfew powers and allowing police searches without warrants.
The current state of emergency gives more powers to the security services and police to act without judicial oversight.
P. J. Anthony (NYT) SRI LANKA: EMERGENCY RULE EXTENDED Parliament approved the extension of a nationwide state of emergency, giving security forces sweeping powers to arrest suspects.
The declaration of a state of emergency gives the military the power to suspend certain civil liberties and ban public gatherings of more than five people.
The $300 that I always carry as an emergency gives me some comfort … unless the wrong people read this and mug me for my belt!
The dissidents within the party and the political opposition were against extending a state of emergency giving security forces sweeping powers, saying a new antiterrorist law already gave them enough authority to crush the rebels.
