In May, Ms Portas described the country's High Streets as being at crisis point.
She warned: "In some parts of the country the problem is reaching crisis point".
In 1983, low-wage competition in China, Vietnam and India brought the Indonesian textile industry to a crisis point.
For the Americans and Nato the situation is quickly reaching a crisis point.
Talks about flood insurance are at "crisis point" and could leave 200, 000 homes without cover, according to an insurers' body.
Fiona Salter, an RCN representative at Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust, told BBC Radio Wales the situation had reached crisis point.
The issue of how and where travellers are to live has come to a crisis point, and not only at Dale Farm.
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In each instance, Gray pushes a generic situation to an expressionistic crisis point -- and Bobby forfeits another ounce of his humanity.
Mr Coleman said they "were not fully and equally aware of the extent of the problems until the garden had reached crisis point".
And I think we are past the crisis point in the economy, but we now have to pivot and focus on jobs and growth.
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The seriousness is getting stronger and stronger to the crisis point where the protective dikes having the wide top of three meters have been overflooded.
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Amid signs that Hizbullah's Christian allies would balk at pushing things to such a crisis point, France, Lebanon's former colonial overlord, has stepped in with yet another offer to mediate.
The NSPCC has called for teachers and doctors to be trained to identify suicide distress signs before children reach crisis point, and wants therapy to be made available for all children who have suffered abuse.
The Sami Parliament is an advisory body without any decision-making power, and Mr Hivano sees that as a failing which is rapidly approaching crisis point in the dispute over the planned gold mine at Pasvik.
Well, last May we saw well that idea went down with the public and we are now hitting a crisis point as the elderly population want to hang up their hats and enjoy their retirement.
The uneasy paradox which so many live with in this country - of being first-and-foremost rugged individuals, out to plunder what they can and paying as little tax as they can get away with, while at the same time believing that America is a robust, model society - has reached a crisis point this week.
But shadow Northern Ireland secretary Vernon Coaker said the situation in Northern Ireland had reached a "crisis" point.
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Many lessons were drawn from the Latin American crisis, as you point out.
Are we at a point of -- are we at a point or near a point of crisis in Pakistan?
"It's quite clear that, in some places, police officers who are finding vulnerable young people at a point of crisis have no realistic option other than to take them to cells, " he added.
An escalation in the EU debt crisis in the coming days could also prompt fresh safe-haven demand for gold even if the U.S. dollar index also rallies, and even if gold has not recently rallied on the EU crisis up to this point.
If the moral of this story is that media commentary is like navigating in fog, the crisis of journalism is, at this point, sufficiently real to be seen as part of a wider conceptual crisis brought about by new-media technology: a crisis that is located, primarily, in the cognitive effects of acceleration and its cultural backwash.
At that point, ineffective crisis management nearly destroyed the financial system and the economy.
Matsushima also believes this crisis will prove a turning point for the country as a whole.
If the conditions for a crisis are present, then the crisis will come at some point, and the conditions are present for a jump in inflation.
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