What's the difference between crisis and predicament?

Crisis


Definition:

  • (n.) The point of time when it is to be decided whether any affair or course of action must go on, or be modified or terminate; the decisive moment; the turning point.
  • (n.) That change in a disease which indicates whether the result is to be recovery or death; sometimes, also, a striking change of symptoms attended by an outward manifestation, as by an eruption or sweat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The playing fields on which all those players began their journeys have been underfunded for years and are now facing a renewed crisis because of cuts to local authority budgets.
  • (2) 2010 2 May : In a move that signals the start of the eurozone crisis, Greece is bailed out for the first time , after eurozone finance ministers agree to grant the country rescue loans worth €110bn (£84bn).
  • (3) An unexpected result of the Greek crisis has been a flight of capital into British government bonds, which has seen gilt prices fall.
  • (4) The ophthalmic headache's crisis is caused, in fact, by a spasm of convergence on an unknown exophory of which the amplitude of fusion is satisfying, and the presence of which can only be seen with test under screen.
  • (5) Recognition and prompt treatment of this potentially fatal dermatological crisis is stressed.
  • (6) Aldi, Lidl and Morrisons are to raise the price they pay their suppliers for milk, bowing to growing pressure from dairy farmers who say the industry is in crisis.
  • (7) Five of the children presented an "aplastic crisis," for example, a sudden decrease in hemoglobin concentration associated with absence of reticulocytes in the peripheral blood, and four were admitted with unremitting severe pain because of a "vaso-occlusive crisis."
  • (8) It added that the crisis had highlighted significant weaknesses in financial regulation, with further measures needed to strengthen supervision.
  • (9) The headteacher of the school featured in the reality television series Educating Essex has described using his own money to buy a winter coat for a boy whose parents could not afford one, in a symptom of an escalating economic crisis that has seen the number of pupils in the area taking home food parcels triple in a year.
  • (10) On Monday, the day after a party congress officially cementing Putin's candidacy in the 4 March presidential election, the top stories on Inosmi concerned modernisation, the eurozone crisis and Iran.
  • (11) A patient with autoimmune hemolytic anemia of the warm antibody type developed a hyperacute hemolytic crisis with acute renal failure under conventional treatment with corticosteroids.
  • (12) "Emerging markets are slowing down from pre-crisis growth rates.
  • (13) Four patients developed an hypertensive crisis with quite elevated levels of aldosterone, cortisol and plasma renin activity.
  • (14) For a union that, in less than 25 years, has had to cope with the end of the cold war, the expansion from 12 to 28 members, the struggle to create a single currency and, most recently, the eurozone crisis, such a claim risks accusations of hyperbole.
  • (15) That was how the similar crisis in Sangatte in 2002 was eventually dealt with .
  • (16) The legs of that argument were cut off by the financial crisis.
  • (17) Given the financial crisis this government inherited, we had no choice but to make significant savings.
  • (18) But mention the words "eurozone crisis" to other Finns, and you could be rewarded with little more than a confused, albeit friendly, smile.
  • (19) The sources were two adolescent patients with sickle cell disease and aplastic crisis who had unsuspected parvovirus infection.
  • (20) Tony Abbott urges Europe to adopt Australian policies in refugee crisis Read more Given that Obama – whatever one’s views on his strategy – is not advocating a bigger military contribution, the only difference is that Abbott is “urging” the US and others to do more, which sounds resolute, and Turnbull says he would consider any request if it was made.

Predicament


Definition:

  • (n.) A class or kind described by any definite marks; hence, condition; particular situation or state; especially, an unfortunate or trying position or condition.
  • (n.) See Category.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I can’t stay here anymore.” When his mother calls, he says, he refuses to talk to her, blaming her in part for his predicament.
  • (2) I had told Chris that I would need an electric hook-up and told him about my predicament.
  • (3) As one example, certain aspects of Gawain's situation seem oddly redolent of a more contemporary predicament, namely our complex and delicate relationship with the natural world.
  • (4) How are medical roles adapted to the situation of medical pluralism and the predicaments that flow from such a situation.
  • (5) High tension and high stakes coursed through this meeting of top four chasers versus relegation facers and it was to QPR’s credit that they attacked their predicament – and Arsenal – head on.
  • (6) Clinical research and opinion in this area have elicited both clinical euphoria and polarization vis-a-vis newer possibilities for resolving the predicaments of partial or complete edentulism.
  • (7) who was thinking about voting yes, and went on to reduce her political predicament to her meagre wage packet.
  • (8) Craving boldness is too often a euphemism for wishing Labour's predicament were something other than what it is; that there was a way to promise immediate improvement in everyone's lives without giving them money.
  • (9) When there was no accordance, we noticed a correlation between pressure gradient and surgical success in 3 cases and predicaments based on PRA and success in 2 cases.
  • (10) But the predicament is partly engendered by prosperity, too.
  • (11) The Canadian researchers were more sympathetic to the IGDA’s predicament than Kazemi or the workers spoken to for this feature.
  • (12) The former chairman blamed "mismanagement" for the retailer's dire predicament, and is interested in acquiring some of its stores to add to his DW Sports Fitness chain.
  • (13) Jack is played with dreamy intensity and later (as the realities of criminal life begin to kick in) with steely resolve by LaBeouf, who must be able to sympathise with Jack's predicament.
  • (14) If you pull one side, your feet are in the cold.” Quite how long Hazard – who did manage seven minutes off the bench – is shivering out in the wilderness remains to be seen but Chelsea’s predicament requires a creative talent who signed a new five-and-a-half-year contract in February to emulate Willian and Pedro, allying discipline to those mind-boggling flashes of skill.
  • (15) Caroline Lucas MEP is leader of the British Green party President Mohamed Nasheed Despite our predicament, I'm optimistic The Maldives doesn't look like the front line in a battle.
  • (16) If [policing is] the only type of process that they want to put in place to address these issues, then we will have a major concern with it, because that will not … address the issues and we will be in the same predicament a month from now or a year from now,” Dandan said.
  • (17) But, despite the sympathy felt by many in Europe for Scotland’s predicament, Sturgeon’s hopes of ensuring the country remains in the bloc look likely to be crushed.
  • (18) We have to try and find a way to help the audience sympathise with his predicament."
  • (19) So the first problem was that the Greek cuts led to a worsening of the Greek predicament: the economy kept contracting, and unemployment hit a record high of 16.2%.
  • (20) Until we are mathematically gone, I will believe.” Tottenham’s Son Heung-min grabs late winner after Watford red card Read more He also said he will do his utmost to entice reinforcements during the January transfer window, but admits that the club’s predicament complicates recruitment.