Sentences with phrase «descend into crisis»

• He claimed that no one predicted the euro would descend into crisis in the way that it did.

As the subway system has descended into crisis, Mayor Bill de Blasio has been noticeably absent underground, opting instead for a caravan of black sport utility vehicles to travel around the city.

Labour has descended into crisis as several high - profile members of the shadow cabinet have quit in the past few hours.

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Of course, that you know the true character of a person, when in crisis, is as true now as it was in William Golding's Lord of the Flies, the 1954 novel in which the best of British public school boys (metaphor for the best of western civilization) descended into feral brutes, just because they were marooned in a strange environment for a few days.

US officials have indicated they would prefer a political solution to the Syrian crisis, which is threatening to descend into an all - out civil war.