Sentence examples for only one crisis from inspiring English sources

During this time, there was only one crisis, and it was my father's health: the cars never broke down, and if a bill was paid late, the lights still stayed on.

The basic concept is that hitting several targets at once, even with just a few fighters at each site, can cause fits for elite counterterrorist forces that are often manpower-heavy, far away and organized to deal with only one crisis at a time.

Of the patients (n = 619) who qualified for inclusion in at least 1 crisis event subgroup, 30.9% had experienced only one crisis event, 8.9% had experienced 2 or more crisis events, and 1.9% had experienced 3 or more events.

Although 60.2% of the participants did not report experiencing a crisis event, 39.8% of the patients did, with 30.9% of all participants meeting only one crisis event criterion, 8.9% meeting 2 or more criteria, and about 2% meeting three or more criteria.

With the DPA enjoying only a slender majority, it is potentially only one crisis away from losing its grip on power.

"If we keep going down this path, the Darfur crisis will be only one crisis among dozens of others," President Nicolas Sarkozy, of France, told a meeting of world leaders in April.

"You sometimes have a feeling that the global community – and even the big powers – can only focus on one crisis at a time," the former UN secretary general said.

As economist Joseph Stiglitz points out, this era saw only one financial crisis (Brazil, 1964), and working people in western democracies made huge gains.

She is much concerned with, and often hampered by, the codes of politeness in which she has been educated (and which break down only at one crisis point in the novel, when officious nurses try to prevent her seeing her sick daughter).

* P <.01; P values based on non-crisis event group vs. each category: patients with only one type of crisis event, two or more types of events, and three of more types of crisis events.

If you had to read only one book on the growing crisis, The Vanishing Middle Class is it.