Critical Situation

I think the reason for it is that we're in a critical situation now.

Up to this point, a person doesn't feel anything about the critical situation.

I can't leave my men on their own in this critical situation.

The world economy has been brought to a critical situation.

Such then is our situation; critical indeed, but after all perhaps not desperate.

"It's really going to put some of them in a critical situation."

A critical situation could be on us at any time.

Its members deal with critical situations while holding their regular jobs.

Recently, however, we have seen an increasingly critical situation, particularly with regard to crime.

War would probably have been declared but for the critical situation in Europe.