Sentence examples for permanent emergency from inspiring English sources

"Basically, my life was lived in a state of permanent emergency.

It is now known, in a rare bit of bureaucratic frankness, as the "permanent emergency".

What enhanced oversight becomes necessary if we are not to perpetuate a permanent emergency?

The area is bedraggled and third-worldish, with an air of permanent emergency, everything surfaced in ash.

That's because the exigencies of rendering — tiny slippages between eye and hand — constituted, for him, a permanent emergency, requiring incessant adjustment.

Organised crime is a permanent emergency in southern Italy, and it has never been written about with such guts and passion.

It would ensure that presidents have access to broad emergency powers when they are most needed, while guarding against the type of "permanent emergencies" that characterize many authoritarian regimes.

He even appeared to backtrack on Egypt's much criticised and semi-permanent "emergency" law, saying it would be lifted only when "calm and stability" return and conditions are "suitable".

"Constant-shutdown, permanent-emergency governance is so destructive that no other serious country engages in or could tolerate it," James Fallows writes in the Atlantic.

Now that Obama has signed the new debt ceiling into law and subscribed his party to an austerity program that assumes a state of permanent economic emergency (twin of the permanent security emergency begun by Bush and Cheney), the question what made him do it?

The World Food Programme says the malnutrition rate in South Sudan is 16%, which signals a permanent humanitarian emergency.