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Example sentences for "great crisis"

  • As was ever his fashion when a great crisis was at hand, he fawned alternately on both parties, struck alternately at both, and held himself in readiness to chant the praises or to sign the death warrant of either.

  • A great crisis, often predicted, had at last arrived.

  • While he lingered here, the reaction which had followed the great crisis of Thermidor met with a temporary check.

  • Now it would be hardly possible to overrate the importance of the step thus taken by England at a great crisis in the public affairs of Europe.

  • We have seen that a play consists, or ought to consist, of a great crisis, worked out through a series of minor crises.

  • When an aristocracy is scarce a thousandth part of the body social, it is bound today, as of old, to multiply its points of action, so as to counterbalance the weight of the masses in a great crisis.

  • As was ever his fashion when a great crisis was at hand, he fawned alternately on both parties, struck alternately at both, and held himself in readiness to chant the praises or to sign the death-warrant of either.

  • She cannot, I fancy, be trusted at a great crisis to make the fortune of her son.

  • Such a course is probably the safest a man in his position can take; but one who, at a great crisis, cannot originate and initiate a policy, will not be remembered among the grand rulers of the world.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    for himself; great ascetic; great bunch; great credit; great deale; great depth; great disadvantage; great earthquake; great encouragement; great grandson; great grief; great horse; great idea; great importance; great nation; great necessity; great secret; great teacher; great trade; great traveller; great veneration; great water; great world; greater amount; greater number; greatly enhanced