If these countries undergo a profound and protracted economic crisis, it will undermine their viability as states.

I've got other reasons, but we don't need a protracted crisis to drag on and divert our resources.

He called collapse "at this stage a much more remote possibility" than protracted crisis.

At every stage in this painfully protracted crisis, the eurozone's political leaders have failed to rise to the challenge.

Poor Haitians, tired of the protracted crisis, refused to believe a solution had been reached and were adopting a wait-and-see approach.

In response to the protracted economic crisis Darity has called for a federal jobs guarantee program.

In the meantime, Italy is facing the prospect of a new Government and a protracted political crisis over electoral reform.

The result of the events was new protracted crisis in the Provisional Government.

Moreover, the protracted crisis is having a very negative impact on the socio-economic situation in Lebanon.

Meanwhile, the government had to deal with a serious and protracted crisis involving the Catholic Church.