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Meanings of conjuncture in English

A set of circumstances causing a crisis.

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Examples for "crisis"
Examples for "crisis"
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Moreover, today's positive market effects demand further qualification beyond the health crisis.
The Guardian
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Many banks received government money last year as the financial crisis deepened.
Reuters
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The other key risk especially in Europe is the sovereign debt crisis.
Reuters
4
However, recent years have been different, courtesy of the euro zone crisis.
The Irish Times
5
The global financial crisis sharply curtailed trade in developed countries last year.
The Irish Times
1
Enhancing market discipline is also key to avoiding future crises, Plosser said.
Reuters
2
Business from Europe has been dampened by sovereign debt crises, he said.
Reuters
3
Cape Town's water culture must be changed to avoid stressful water crises.
The South African
4
But that will not eliminate risk of future crises, the report said.
Reuters
5
Northern Ireland politics and Christmas crises seem to go hand in hand.
The Irish Times
Usage of conjuncture in English
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The great Russian army under Kutusow appeared at this conjuncture in Moravia.
Germany from the Earliest Period, Volume 4
2
In this alarming conjuncture, it was thought advisable by Pope Innocent IV.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume...
3
Selfishness in a conjuncture of this sort was excusable, and even obligatory.
Two on a Tower
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But there happened at that time a very peculiar conjuncture in politics.
The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)
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Walker, indeed, entertained sentiments more valuable to the South in this conjuncture.
Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02
6
It was especially so, as has been said, at the present conjuncture.
A Siren
7
Nothing could exceed the miserable conduct of the diet at that conjuncture.
Germany from the Earliest Period, Volume 4
8
But they were not, perhaps could not, be fulfilled at that conjuncture.
The Inside Story of the Peace Conference
9
What was the course of Her Majesty's Government at this critical conjuncture?
Selected Speeches on British Foreign Policy 1738-1914
10
The conjuncture in which the Bonzas found the king, was favourable to them.
The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volume...
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But Lincoln seemed especially chosen to the keenest suffering in such a conjuncture.
Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01
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It was the most exciting, the most alarming political conjuncture of my time.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4
13
But though the conjuncture of circumstances was most favorable, the man was wanting.
The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 6: ...
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The conjuncture I am speaking of affords a memorable instance of this truth.
Letters to Sir William Windham and Mr. Pope
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Cytherea was embarrassed, and her embarrassment arose from the following conjuncture of affairs.
Desperate Remedies
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At length the conjuncture arrived when decisive action could no longer be postponed.
Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. Volume 1
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