Noun
The word is derived from crisis
of Crisis
Source: Webster's dictionaryA marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises. André Maurois
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed. William James
The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved. George Washington
I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal. Brian May
When established identities become outworn or unfinished ones threaten to remain incomplete, special crises compel men to wage holy wars, by the cruelest means, against those who seem to question or threaten their unsafe ideological bases. Erik Erikson
There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy. Timothy Geithner