This crisis has existed for years, because city and state officials have failed to muster the resolve to address these problems.

"That crisis still exists and we consider this as the board being unresponsive to the letter."

And though agency officials have warned Congress for at least three years that a crisis existed, it has done little to address the problem.

Black political leaders also have a vested interest in maintaining that a racial crisis exists.

No one made calls at this hour unless some crisis existed.

A family judge who would not be identified said the "crisis" at the detention centers had existed for more than a decade.

But nowhere does the report persuasively make the case that such a crisis exists.

Do hotels have to be flooded by a natural disaster before the Government will recognize that a crisis exists?

The State Legislature acts as if the crisis doesn't exist.

The interpretation is a valuable reminder that the crisis of 1483 did not exist in a vacuum.