Sentence examples for shocking crisis from inspiring English sources

The sudden implosion of Syria's relatively sophisticated society had produced "the most shocking crisis in the world", he said.

With the shocking financial crisis of 2008 still fresh in people's minds, and gloom-spinning economists like Nouriel Roubini having achieved pop culture status, even longstanding pessimists like Mr. Edwards — who has been forecasting a Japanese-style stock market slump in the United States since 1997 — are being treated with newfound respect.

The arrival of the G8 leaders in St Petersburg for their two-day summit will doubtlessly be accompanied by familiar calls to help bale Africa out of its economic quagmire and end the shocking humanitarian crises that continue to blight so much of the continent and scar the conscience of the watching world.

Its long record of building reliable cars is partly what has made this crisis so shocking.

The crisis is shocking people on both sides of the border into seeing that there may be limits to growth.

With the help of her husband Steven Hopp, an environmental studies lecturer, she lays out in the book the shocking scale of the crisis.

A catchy, engaging yet shocking cartoon outlining the crisis facing Sheffield is doing the rounds in the constituency city of Nick Clegg.

In a statement its disaster manager Pete Garratt, said: The escalation of this refugee crisis is shocking, but we know that the true figure is likely to be higher.

It's something new to see crises -- especially a crisis as shocking as the terrorist attack -- consistently addressed with legislation that does almost nothing to address the actual problem, and is almost entirely aimed at advancing a pre-existing agenda.

To see other human beings live like this is partly shocking because this humanitarian crisis is unrecognised by the UN, and one of the most frightening things about the camps is their lack of structure.

The new cabinet minister's promise to tackle the issue comes after the National Union of Teachers threatened strikes in response to a survey showing a "shocking and sobering" workload crisis in schools.