And they had to come back from two crisis moments to do it, on the third evening in Brisbane when it looked like they would lose the first Test, and then in Perth, where they were heavily beaten.
The president has held two days of crisis talks with leaders of Italy's political parties after Mr Berlusconi's resignation.
Even today, after two years of crisis, the Spanish prime minister is struggling to clean up Spain's public finances.
Also, mining titan BHP Billiton tried to tie the knot with Rio Tinto in the midst of the financial crisis two years ago but ultimately dropped its offer citing economic conditions.
This crisis brewed in two Bear Stearns real estate hedge funds, which eventually blew up and contributed to the cause of the crisis.
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However, when you think about it, conservatism up from debt crisis has two advantages.
For the first two weeks of the crisis, engineers pumped seawater into the reactors.
But within two weeks, the crisis in Ireland was entirely defused by a crisis of much greater proportions.
The current crisis began two years ago with the appointment of an openly gay minister, Scott Rennie, by a congregation in Aberdeen.
Here Mr Gore has the edge, for he has seen a crisis or two already, and is familiar with diplomacy.
But 2011 was Bentley's first year back in the black after the global economic crisis triggered two years of losses.
It won't come to that, of course, but even at their age, the two youngsters know the Crisis has changed everything.
That will bring on phase two of the new crisis: The sluggish U.S. economy will swoon again, ushering in another full recession.
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The euro has been badly shaken by more than two years of constant crisis, which in turn has sent reverberations through global markets.
And of course the Fed played a vital and critical role as a partner as we wrestled with the financial crisis here two years ago.
In contrast to the manufactured crisis, two real challenges face us.
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He also warns that Congress cannot afford to drag out the confirmation process for Cabinet members, particularly with the U.S. dealing with a financial crisis and two wars.
It still faces a crisis in two years when patents expire on drugs that produce 20% of its sales, but the market believes it is grappling with the problem.
"Towards a new crisis in two months' time" reads a headline on the website of France's Le Figaro, which believes that "the agreement endorsed by Congress only constitutes a temporary solution".
The euro zone debt crisis produced two years of fears that it would result in financial collapse and a severe recession in Europe that would spread to the rest of the world.
Meanwhile, the more than 7, 000 small and medium-size banks were left hanging in the breeze, and two years after the crisis ended are still going under at a faster pace than during the crisis.
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Its importance has grown in recent years after the banking crisis forced two of the U.K.'s largest financial institutions, Lloyds Banking Group PLC and Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC, to halt dividend payments after the government bailed them out.
The Mexican bailout helped fuel the East Asian crisis that erupted two years later.
We are going to come up against another debt ceiling crisis in just two months.
More significantly, this growth has accelerated in the past two years despite the financial crisis.
"In this battle, two visions for solving the crisis will be confronted, so let's compare, " he said.
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