national crises

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of national crisis.
  national crisis

  noun

  a social or economic crisis, such as rising crime, political uprising, or a housing shortage, that affects a large portion of a nation or requires the resources and powers of a national government to address it.

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national crises

Mr Dowden said responsibility for dealing with national crises would always remain with ministers.

From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2023

They say that if such guardrails are not in place, the U.S. risks being left dangerously short of fuel during actual national crises.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 9, 2021

"Previous periods following great national crises and mobilizations have been the periods that…upend the status quo and they transform people's expectations," McCartin told Salon in an interview.

From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2021

A place of optimism — a park built on the belief in humanity’s ability to aspire to be better — had survived multiple wars, recessions and national crises.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2021

As always in national crises, the individual was sacrificed to the community, and deprived of the few rights remaining to him.

From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Jacob S. Raisin

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