Sentence examples for spiralling crisis from inspiring English sources

His successor, who was an IAAF vice president for eight years beneath Diack, has been left to deal with a spiralling crisis in the sport.

In the wake of the May arrests, Blatter was re-elected as Fifa president but promised to step down just five days later amid the spiralling crisis.

Gorbachev's attention was consumed by the spiralling crisis within the Soviet borders, not just economic but now embracing nationalist stirrings in the Baltic states and Transcaucasia, and demands for liberalisation at home, opposed by his hardline foes in the Politburo.

Despite the spiralling crisis sparked by the US Department of Justice and Swiss prosecutors, Blatter succeeded with an appeal to the 209 member associations to give him another term.

The International Olympic Committee president, Thomas Bach, invoked Queen Victoria this week when asked about the spiralling crisis surrounding allegations of corruption concerning Tokyo's successful bid for the 2020 Olympic Games.

It is in the interest of everyone to stop this spiralling "crisis" – because, unlike any other service out there, A&E is something we will all need at some point in our lives.

Hudson and other Africa watchers said the political controversy over Benghazi has affected the State Department's response to spiraling crises in South Sudan and in the Central African Republic -- another nation currently undergoing near-genocide levels of violence -- resulting in a heightened impulse for caution that seems to have restricted American action.

The German, an Adidas executive under Horst Dassler at the birth of the marriage between sport and commerce that led indirectly to the spiralling crises at Fifa and the IAAF, has been close to Coe since they were among the first athletes to address the IOC in 1981.

Hawit only succeeded Jeffrey Webb in May, after Webb was arrested as part of the US operation that threw Fifa spiralling into crisis and precipitated the downfall of Sepp Blatter.

Many raged against the conduct of that inquiry, accusing Kenneth Starr, the independent counsel, of abusing his powers, but the outcome demonstrated that a White House under investigation is in danger of spiralling into crisis.

Things haven't got any better in Greece, with the spiralling economic crisis continuing to dominate news and social agendas in the country.