Definition of Emergency

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Definition of Emergency
	Emergency Sudden or unexpected appearance; an unforeseen occurrence; a sudden occasion. An unforeseen occurrence or combination of circumstances which calls for immediate action or remedy; pressing necessity; exigency. Related Definitions: Action, An, Appearance, Combination, Exigency, For, Immediate, Necessity, Occasion, Occurrence, Of, Or, Pressing, Remedy, Sudden, Unexpected, Which

Emergency Quotations

I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.
Ronald Reagan

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.
Douglas MacArthur

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
Ambrose Bierce

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
Charles Dickens

Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.
Robert Baden-Powell

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.
Al Gore

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.
Ida B. Wells

I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.
Chuck Yeager

Emergency Translations

emergency in Afrikaans is krisis
emergency in Dutch is crisis
emergency in French is crise
emergency in German is Notlage, Notsituation, Notfall, Notfall, Not-
emergency in Spanish is emergencia, crisis, aprieto

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