31.   It was the beginning of the end of what had threatened to become a major crisis in China-U.S. relations.

32.   Mercosul encountered its first major crisis in mid-June.

33.   Months later, that job played a key role as Graham faced his first major crisis as governor.

34.   Now he is in the center of a major international crisis that dwarfs the controversies that surrounded his election.

35.   Outside the economic realm, confidence has been helped by the drop in crime and by the absence of any major political crises, said pollsters.

36.   Retail sales are down, jobless claims are up, and the city is heading for a major crisis.

37.   Republican Bush came to office with no mandate, only tenuous control of Congress and no major domestic crisis commanding bold action.

38.   Several observers said it was rare for a president to deliver a televised address on a domestic policy issue that could not be construed as major crisis.

39.   So at our house, we borrow money only in a crisis, and a major crisis at that.

40.   Such cases are becoming so common that some experts say the epidemic of sexual abuse within the church poses a major institutional crisis for churches in America.