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emergency

An emergency is a serious situation that needs to be dealt with very quickly. She called 911 to report the emergency to police. With the new fighting, the president has declared a state of emergency. He was rushed to the emergency room where doctors operated to save his life. Some airlines failed to show pilots how to operate emergency exits. In an emergency, please close your doors and windows and stay calm. Emergency is the department in a hospital that takes people with immediate medial needs.

emergency

a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action he never knew what to do in an emergency a state in which martial law applies the governor declared a state of emergency (= hand brake) a brake operated by hand; usually operates by mechanical linkage

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Simple sentences

In case of an emergency, push this button.
Consider it an emergency.
You said there was an emergency.
Dan called the police to report an emergency.
Tom says that it is wise to stockpile some food in case of emergency.
Spain declared a state of emergency Friday.
What is the emergency telephone number?
Don't look to me for any help except in case of emergency.
What number should I call in case of an emergency?
In case of emergency, call 119.
In case of an emergency, dial 110.
In case of an emergency, get in touch with my agent.
In case of emergency, call the police.
Make certain where the emergency exit is before you go to bed at a hotel.
You can always count on him in any emergency.
This is an emergency.
In an emergency he had nothing to fall back upon.
Where's the emergency exit?
In case of an emergency, phone me at this number.
An emergency may occur at any time.
In case of an emergency, call the police.
In case of a fire, use this emergency stairway.
Emergency exits must be kept free of blockages for public safety.
He pushed the emergency button.
In an emergency, use the stairway, not the elevator.

Movie subtitles

At least in an emergency leave.
Emergency call to the base in Noah.
Repeat: an emergency call to the base in Noah.
Emergency call.
There's an emergency call button she can press.
Designate theatre area Red Zone, rest of Emergency Department Amber.
Emergency escharotomies are in progress.
I tried an emergency spinal corpectomy on a 15-year-old car crash victim.
I should make sure this isn't an emergency.
It says emergency.
Hey, what's the emergency?
We got an emergency situation going on.
I have an emergency.
We had to rush Neal to the emergency room, because he popped a scrotal suture.
The Guardians just received an emergency summons.
In these times, a bank should keep liquid in case of emergency.
That emergency would be unfortunate for you all.
Only to meet this present emergency.
The emergency exit!
Excuse me, Dr. Garth, but Dr. Graham wants to know if you will come see an emergency patient in 32.
I'll have the National Guard ready for any merited emergency.
Emergency alarm.
Emergency lamps! Keep calm.
You'll forgive me bothering you like this. But I'm sure you understand the emergency of the matter.
I was equal to any emergency. - I know. I know.
Emergency relief. To create public improvements on rivers, harbours and roadways.
There's no precedent, but this is an emergency without precedent.
That was an emergency.
It's an emergency now too.
We got an emergency situation going on. - Stop playing!
In this emergency, the Trenholm name is the greatest asset we could have.
When that guy gets a thirst, it's a real emergency.
Emergency lamps!
When I was Destry's deputy, I was good with guns. I was equal to any emergency.
A man ought to be prepared for any emergency.

News and current affairs

For everyone else, a kind of state of emergency was proclaimed that has allowed state interference in essential civil rights. Controls at borders have become an ordeal for many, and police persecution now burdens quite a few.
To be sure, fiscal deficits and emergency measures in advanced economies and some major developing countries have cushioned the sharp decline, substituting in part for missing consumers.
In advanced countries, governments will eventually be forced to reduce spending, and central banks will withdraw from emergency credit provisions and guarantees.
But I was told that only patients in need of emergency medical evacuation would be allowed out - not students.
In addition, hundreds of thousands of women were dying in childbirth each year, because they had no access to safe deliveries in a clinic or hospital, or to emergency help when needed.
For now, Serbia's government has imposed a state of emergency.
Governments could meet their financing needs within agreed limits at very low cost during this emergency period, and the ECB would not violate Article 123 of the Lisbon Treaty.
A new agreement for the eurozone, negotiated in a calmer atmosphere, should not only codify the practices established during the emergency, but also lay the groundwork for an economic-growth strategy.
During the emergency period, fiscal retrenchment and austerity are unavoidable; but, in the longer term, the debt burden will become unsustainable without growth - and so will the European Union itself.
In Europe, while Greeks may grumble about the terms of German backing for emergency financing, the period since World War II has seen enormous progress in knitting countries together.
His emergency technocratic government, supported by the left and right, was a masterstroke of outgoing President Giorgio Napolitano.
National and international emergency-response capabilities are being upgraded.
Concern that the levees might break in the midst of a powerful hurricane was widespread among scientists, engineers, and emergency-preparedness experts.
Revealingly, the Fund, not the European Union, has taken the lead in negotiating emergency assistance packages for Hungary and Latvia.
For everyone else, a kind of state of emergency was proclaimed that has allowed state interference in essential civil rights.
Countries such as Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Kenya, as well as Uganda, are requesting assistance for emergency drug supplies.
The starting point of the contagion was investors' realization that Europe's rescue fund, the European Financial Stability Facility, was designed to provide emergency financial support only to the peripheral countries.
This is why all countries provide emergency liquidity support when a bank run materializes, as was done on a global scale when confidence in the banking sector collapsed alongside Lehman Brothers in 2008.
This requires that fiscal authorities have access to a large pool of liquidity in an emergency.
There was a lack of integrated emergency-response capability at the site and nationally.
Global nuclear safety standards are being reviewed. National and international emergency-response capabilities are being upgraded.
At an emergency meeting on September 1, EU leaders refused to continue the PCA talks until Russia removed its combat units from the Georgian separatist regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
Similarly, many of the countries attending the EAS stressed the need for response capabilities, such as emergency disaster relief.
But what was an emergency remedy has become a long-term policy, because there is no economic activity to take its place.

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