Sentence examples for full-blown emergency from inspiring English sources

Prevention not only saves lives but is cheaper than waiting for a full-blown emergency to hit.

Why did they not insist upon a full-blown emergency resolution of the UN at the recent special session if needs be naming and shaming the lame-duck government of Indonesia?

Heat toxicity, or heat injury, can run the gamut from heat exhaustion (which occurs in the early stages of a heat-related event) to heat stroke, which is a full-blown emergency that requires immediate veterinary intervention.

The executive director of the WFP, Josette Sheeran, said: "We are having an emergency meeting to avoid a full blown emergency, before we see the effects which are long lasting and devastating … We know what needs to be done.

When is an emergency a full-blown medical emergency?

The European Central Bank has agreed to pump more funds into Greek banks to prevent a full-blown financial emergency in the eurozone's crisis state.

The question now is whether the nation, in the midst of a full-blown economic emergency, can keep its cool and be smart as it marshals billions of public dollars for a new infrastructure initiative.

"So who's going to do the night shift?" Adrian Edwards, spokesman for the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said: "Anyone who has been in a full-blown humanitarian emergency will know that they can indeed be chaotic and dangerous, especially in the initial phases.

We are now at a tipping point that threatens to flip the world into a full-blown climate emergency.

"Should the present Deyr rains fail or perform poorly, then many zones in the Somali region are facing a full-blown humanitarian emergency.

The escalation to a full-blown state of emergency followed a shift in tactics by the protesters.