How To Use Emergency In A Sentence

Yes, the gearbox was a bit saggy and I was alarmed at how much pressure the brake pedal needed to do an emergency stop, but other than this, all was well.
Nancy and Andy bring in Stevie for an emergency pediatrician visit on "Weeds" (Showtime at 10), only to turn on the television in the waiting room and learn that the feds are a little too close to catching their family. TV highlights: Monday, Oct.18, 2010
A week-long state of emergency was declared, and the protests were forcibly suppressed with considerable loss of life.
Non-emergency surgery planned over the next few days had to be cancelled because of the blood donor crisis.
When faced with serious disasters, countries often declare a formal state of emergency.

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An orbiting satellite picked up a distress signal from the ship's emergency beacon, standard equipment on all modern boats.
After being faced with the "extortionate" demand, Lee and others at his resort called the Canadian consulate and department of foreign affairs emergency line, only to be told to pay up Toronto Sun
Australia plays a leading role in advancing APEC's responses to human security issues such as communicable diseases, emergency disaster relief preparedness, counter-terrorism, climate change and energy security. Australia Strengthens APEC
I was disappointed to see very few (if any) contributions to the patients' issue from doctors who currently face patients in an emergency, at unsocial hours, in dismal surroundings.
They called C4, which is Mexico's emergency dispatch system and advised them that they had been lost for two days, were stranded, dehydrated, and were going to light a signal fire to attempt to get some help," said Cal Fire spokesperson Roxanne Provaznik. Knowledge is Power
The Clinton administration last winter assembled the $50 billion emergency bailout package to ease a financial crisis in Mexico.
The crew jettisoned excess fuel and made an emergency landing.
Think Progress Appearing on Imus In the Morning to promote his new book, State of Emergency, Pat Buchanan asserted that the Mexican government has a “direct program” to reannex “the seven states of the American Southwest.” Think Progress » Buchanan: Mexico Conspiring To ‘Re-Annex’ Seven Southwest States
She explained to them what to do in an emergency.
It was unacceptable that anxious patients should wait for hours in crowded accident and emergency departments.
This is where they have issued what they call a partial activation, not the full crew but about a dozen or so agencies, from fire to some of the other emergency police agencies in the region, in the state. CNN Transcript Jan 19, 2005
Fei Shen is the company's A320 emergency doors the world's only supplier has delivered a total of A320 emergency doors Series 8300, A330/340 before the cargo door 100.
Kenya's colonial government had responded to the Mau Mau resistance movement by imposing a State of Emergency, detaining leading nationalist leader Jomo Kenyatta, and restricting political organizing.
We were concerned that witnesses disagreed about the nature of demand for urgent and emergency care. Times, Sunday Times
Reduced to half its original height, the industrial chimney serves as structural support for the roof and emergency exit footbridge.
The emergency equipment includes food, a first-aid kit, and a heavy-duty flashlight.
There are four emergency exits in the department store.
Domestic shipbuilders along with cold-rolled steel companies last week asked Posco to produce a combined 600,000 metric tons steel products for "possible emergency needs" in the coming months, a Posco spokesman said. South Korean Shipbuilders Ask Posco to Raise Output
With the deepening of grain circulating system innovation, grain logistics' development becomes emergency.
Almost a year after presenting to the accident and emergency department she was referred to our chest unit for observation and treatment.
Emergency workers arrived at the scene to be confronted by the enormous size of the landslide and hundreds of homeless families. Times, Sunday Times
Hospital doctors said Rod was minutes from death when they gave him emergency injections.
The majority of the property was built specifically for its current use and features include a nurse call system, emergency lighting and a three-phase electricity system.
Dr. Cahill, senior attending physician in infectious diseases and emergency medicine at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, serves as the orchestra's in-house physician, treating everything from violinists 'stiff necks to an epidemic of food poisoning that occurred while the orchestra was on tour several years ago. One Virtuoso Physician
They delivered emergency aid to the camps, not to stricken neighbourhoods, thereby ensuring the exponential growth of those camps. Times, Sunday Times
There is a quite possibility that individuals who visited Saint John's, the emergency room of North York (ph) General may have been exposed to the virus, and so, very clearly, I gave you the dates a few moments ago for your viewers, readers and listeners to take into account and follow the public health directions that we have given. CNN Transcript May 24, 2003
A green emergency exit sign was the light to his disappearance and he made his way towards it.
Ambulances have been queuing up at the Emergency Department, waiting up to 90 minutes before they can get their patients from a trolley to a bed.
He was taken to hospital for emergency abdominal surgery.
In his speech he proposed that the UN should set up an emergency centre for the environment.
Yesterday the youngster, who has not been named, was recovering in hospital from an emergency operation to save his sight.
I pulled over to the emergency lane, barely able to see the other cars on the road.
They had to break into the emergency food supplies.
Grandma always kept a bit of money tucked away in case there was an emergency.
When Myrick's other goat, Maya, went into labor Sunday morning, she called a veterinarian who specializes in livestock, but he was out of the county on another emergency call. The Daily News - News
The Olympic Games organizers are trying to prepare for every conceivable emergency.
Soon, the thunderbolt arrived in the form of another news flash that legal battles could not be fought by anyone on matter relating to the emergency.
Various low-probability emergency aborts may use the lakebeds but they are not primary abort sites.
Police operators suggested he ring a nonemergency number, a court heard yesterday. The Sun
Tuck some tissues in a baggie pinned to your shorts, just in case you need an emergency pit stop--it happens.
HMO users should consider taking the company’s prescription-by-mail affiliate or plan on visiting an emergency clinic and getting a short-term refill. The RVer’s Bible
He was summoned to attend an emergency meeting.
In addition, if things get really bad, an emergency button under a safety cover will fire explosive charges, which blow out the windscreen to provide an emergency exit.
After a very harrowing landing (and much vomit in the cabin of the plane I'm sure) that comes up just a few feet short of the overpass, he pops an emergency hatch and amscrays.
Paraphimosis must be distinguished from phimosis, a nonemergency condition in which the foreskin cannot be pulled back.
The compulsory and emergency nature of the initial admission, however, is no different from the trend in current practice.
After paying emergency tax he found himself almost a third worse off than when he was on benefits and was summoned to court for council tax arrears. Times, Sunday Times
An emergency squad of 600 plumbers and electricians has been drafted in to repair the shambles. The Sun
However, when an emergency occurs, the curled varieties will be found suitable for cooking, and the broad-leaved for salading, and therefore there need be no waste where one sort predominates. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition
Nicola arrived to comfort her baby, mother and grandmother beside the wrecked car and lorry before the emergency services arrived.
Pituitrin is similar to oxytocin, but more dangerous, and should never be used except in a case of emergency bleeding when oxytocin and ergonovine are not available. Chapter 31
Multiple devices may well have to be de-energized in an emergency, often at different locations.
We're also doing blanket food distributions and that's within the first emergency phase.
The Abanaki Model 8 belt skimmer may be part of an emergency oil spill system, in which wastewater flows though a coalescer tank, is skimmed, and then passes though filters. Business Wire Travel News
Let's not be conned into thinking the emergency ventriloquist act is a special treat. Times, Sunday Times
A wide range of transport issues were discussed, including the matter of escorts in (non-emergency) patient transport ambulances.
This phone number is only for use in an emergency.
His classical treatment of the subject is worth serious reference; for it should be realised that Lincoln, who had both to learn his new trade of statecraft and to exercise it in a terrible emergency, did so with a large part of each day necessarily consumed by worrying and distasteful tasks of a much paltrier kind. Abraham Lincoln
In emergency cases, nurses can advise staff remotely on how to treat patients before an ambulance arrives. Times, Sunday Times
Instead the manifesto just says that the party will stop closure of accident and emergency departments. Times, Sunday Times
The local government took emergency measures to roll commodity prices back.
The driver, taken by ambulance, arrived in the emergency room obtunded, diaphoretic, with his mouth clenched, and with a positive cough reflex.
This company also provides hazmat emergency response.
On the homeless front, 71 percent of the cities surveyed reported increases in requests for emergency shelter.
Emergency teams are still clearing the debris from the plane crash.
I waited only an hour in the emergency room, and by now, I was feeling pretty bad.
Still, Fed officials agreed on the emergency move during a videoconference call convened hastily Monday evening by Mr. Bernanke. Fed Rate Cut Halts Market Free Fall,
Should police be able to invoke emergency powers to prevent a terrorist attack, and if so, how?
I wanted to argue, or display my thespian skill by claiming a dying relative or dire emergency.
And asthma flares are the most common reason for pediatric emergency room visits due to a chronic illness.
When such releases occurred, priority had been evacuation of patients and emergency care.
The emergency powers were subsequently ratified in parliament by a substantial majority.
The emergency shutdown procedure was activated.
They were then flown to Japan, ostensibly because he needed emergency medical care for an abdominal problem.
Barclaycard, for example, has an international rescue number and will arrange emergency cash advances or replacement cards.
The sound of emergency announcements spewing from car radios left blaring as the drivers abandoned their vehicles in terror. The Sun
They're being drawn to careers of service, as police or firemen, emergency health workers, teachers, counsellors, or in the military.
Employees should be fully acquainted with emergency procedures.
Half of all physician assistants work in primary care; others work in emergency care, surgery, orthopaedics, and other specialties.
Marriot turned the radio to VHF 1215, the emergency frequency. THE RHYTHM SECTION
GREECE has promised big cutbacks in exchange for a three-year emergency loan from the European bailout fund. The Sun
Perata said his figure was a fraction of the amount the state is now spending on emergency energy supplies.
Ambulance crews alternate between emergency and routine work.
Half of all physician assistants work in primary care; others work in emergency care, surgery, orthopaedics, and other specialties.
The crippled US plane made an emergency landing on the Chinese island of Hainan.
Objective: Provision of food aid and emergency relief to developing countries.
The population faces starvation this winter without large-scale emergency food aid.
She has the ability to keep calm in an emergency.
A buffer stock of grain was held in case of emergency shortages.
The government had to take emergency action.
The agency had warned that unless seepage through flood walls was prevented, emergency sandbagging would be needed during flood events.
Originally set in a military hospital during the Blitz in 1941, the film relocates the action to a civilian emergency hospital during the doodlebug campaign of 1944.
Don't call me unless its a real emergency.
We made a tour of the yacht, checking lashings and emergency gear.
If sports injuries occur, emergency treatment should be taken quickly, which can soothe the body and even save one's life.
Most of the hustles are meant, naturally, to appear not to be hustles at all, but genuine appeals for emergency financial assistance.
Almost all ambulance trusts are failing to reach dying patients fast enough as long queues at accident and emergency departments cause delays. Times, Sunday Times
Section 2 involves admission for assessment, section 4 for emergency admission for assessment and section 3 for admission for treatment.
He treated a patient in the emergency room who suffered from hiccups every two seconds for three days.
In addition, there are portable tripping devices that can be placed on the track to automatically stop trains by engaging their emergency breaks.
Instead, her defiance of emergency rule has been carefully calibrated.
There is one particular emergency procedure in my specialist area of vascular surgery that I really haven't carried out enough. Times, Sunday Times
Manchester city council says it will investigate every beep - and says the police could be called in the last resort because it's illegal to toot unless it's an emergency.
The exercise followed a large display at the Rokeby Police Academy for Tasmanian emergency service workers and police cadets.
Retailer Radio Shack said it was also seeing increased demand for two-way radios, emergency batteries and torches.
River and watercourse levels rocketed which led to homes and businesses being soddened, 15 schools closed and the emergency services at full stretch.
Emergency care consists of placing a suitable dentine lining material on to the fractured dentine, and so prompt treatment by a dentist within the same working day or at least by the following morning is required.
He was 34 and like most of his company a reservist, called up for emergency military service a week ago on Friday.
The pilot made an emergency landing in a field.
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Well, this is the first time in the emergency that the World Food Programme has done airlifts of food into some of the worst affected areas.
Through him ripped: Yes, the enemy did have an emergency force hidden in a building near the square, and somebody in this room used a minicom to bring them. A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows
A uniformed officer - a tall, broad-shouldered woman with dirty-blond hair - stood guard at the emergency exit access door.
Emergency crews covered his vehicle with a blue tarpaulin to shield the scene from view while the body was recovered. The Sun
The Red Arrows aerobatic team had to take emergency action to avoid a tragedy when a microlight aircraft strayed into its airspace at Elvington Airshow, the RAF revealed today.
The tiger was in quarantine while surgeons undertook emergency surgery on its owner.
Last week she began a hunger strike but ended it on Friday after an emergency visit from her family. Times, Sunday Times
It is important and emergency to unify molecule and organism, microcosm and macroscopy.
The operators of two nuclear-power plants in the northern prefecture of Aomori said they were running on emergency diesel power after the quake knocked out external power, but by Friday morning, all operations were normal and external power had been restored. Powerful New Quake Rattles Battered Region
The league has already blown its £2,500 budget for emergency clothing on basics like underwear and pyjamas.
For Joburg's Emergency Management Services the international bonds of brotherhood with other emergency workers are strong.
Staff are not permitted to make personal phone calls except in an emergency.
The dancers who were making money in Broadway shows did not hesitate to chip in to meet emergency expenses.
A radio link kept them in touch with the police emergency centre and the Superintendent in charge of the security arrangements.
The internal emergency was imposed and many oppositon leaders, especially of the erstwhile Jana sangh,. the predecessor to the present Bharatiya Janata party were held in Bangalore. the jail, like the jails of old, provided room for the leaders to introspect and devise ways to end the hegemony of the congress party. Uncertainty Ahead in Karnataka Elections
In April, has emergency surgery on large intestine. Times, Sunday Times
An emergency meeting of the Irish regional executive is expected to be mandated by the six Irish districts during the week.
If there is a power failure, the emergency generators should come on line within 15 minutes.
High levels of emergency admissions, soaring drug budgets, desperate efforts to meet Government targets and the costs of major pay deals have all contributed to the problems.
The message I am trying to get through is that the majority of people keep aspirin at home in case they get toothache, so why not do the same with emergency contraception?
And what if you were called upon to signal for an emergency airlift from your PC?
Russell himself carried her to the nearby emergency ward, with her catsuit soaked through with champagne, make-up smeared across her face and blood pumping from her hand.
The UN has agreed to allow the supply of emergency aid.
We met at 12 noon, prior to the emergency debate on the economy.
Emergent novelty in a video game is tremendous fun; emergent novelty in our airplane traffic-control system would be a national emergency.
This financial bonfire is our Reichtag fire, and our real Fuhrer, Paulson, is requesting emergency dictatorial powers to save the nation from nonexistent, unbridled capitalism. The Highway Robber State « Antiwar.com Blog
The Fed could face restrictions on its emergency lending authority or be required to disclose more about its lending operations.
Police had to beat back the throng to clear a path for emergency vehicles. Times, Sunday Times
It caused her stomach to rupture and she had to have emergency surgery. The Sun
Today he divides his time between emergency wards and electric guitars. Times, Sunday Times
She was called away from the meeting to deal with an emergency.
The pilot of the aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing on Lake Geneva.
Most adults do not feel competent to deal with a medical emergency involving a child.
A buffer stock of grain was held in case of emergency shortages.
Emergency cases will receive professional attention immediately.
The government is taking emergency action to deal with a housing crisis.
Volvo's latest wheeze is an optional communications package that uses telematics to summon help in an emergency.
Making the extra effort and being willing to assist in emergency situations like Bob did shows dedication and commitment to ensuring the safety of our passengers.
North Country Emergency Medical Services Chief Tom McDowell, who has been with the local emergency agency for 39 years, said the only other time a person fell from the rim was in 2008 when a snow cornice gave way under a snowmobiler. Climber's Body Recovered in Mount St. Helens Crater
By March 14 the entire homeland area had been placed under a state of emergency.
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In the Court's view, the events that prompted the burgomaster's direction in May 1968… are of a nature to justify an ‘emergency’ confinement of the kind provided for at that time under section 14 of the Netherlands Act.
BLITZER: What do you say to the president who spoke about what he called your pet spending projects -- money that has nothing to do with the war in Iraq or Afghanistan, but for fishermen, peanut storage, spinach farmers, the milk industry -- that you've attached all this -- this other funding into this legislation, which has nothing do with the emergency spending needed for the war? CNN Transcript Mar 23, 2007
Roberts said injuries in such an accident could range from burns to broken bones, bruises and sprained ankles from sliding down the emergency chutes.
The woman ended up being seen in a hospital accident and emergency department with a tooth infection which, if untreated, could have harmed her own health and that of her unborn child.
He ordered the establishment of an emergency granary to store a tenth of the harvest each season to be used in times of emergency.
He was brought to the emergency department by his girlfriend for his increasing disorganization, memory deficits, and multisensory hallucinations.
The president held an emergency meeting to discuss military strategy with his defence commanders yesterday.
It had apparently put out its emergency call because of bad weather. Times, Sunday Times
The Jouberts have been instrumental in establishing the Big Cats Initiative with National Geographic, designed as an emergency action fund to drive attention to the big cats and develop real solutions to stop the decline that has seen lion numbers precipitately drop in the past 50 years. Jay Weston: Thrilling Docudrama The Last Lions Opens in LA
Six to seven emergency vehicles and four ambulances are also provided.
Soldiers, policemen, and the like were all called in to help with the emergency.
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The Prime Minister has called an emergency meeting of parliament.
This is a crisis wrapped in an emergency and most likely concealed inside a right to-do. Times, Sunday Times
Oftel argues that the move to a single private agency would prevent several private companies offering rival emergency services.
He needed emergency surgery to remove a blood clot from his brain.
There were no parachutes seen, nor were emergency radio "beeper" signals heard that day by other aircraft. Featherston, Fielding W. III
He was deep in thought when the doctor walked out of the emergency room and towards them.
The emergency services swung into action as soon as the news of the bomb explosion reached them.
Even those who need emergency hospital care will be subjected to the caprices and bureaucratic diktat of the soldiers guarding the gates.
The emergency signal SOS has no literal meaning.
When Mr Baker lost his footing and fell, it started running for a few seconds until a workmate pressed an emergency stop button.
For terrorism, they include intelligence, investigation, and emergency response preparedness.
AN'emergency' booze home delivery firm which uses an ambulance logo in its advertising was blasted yesterday. The Sun
Engineers have now secured the hole with wooden boards and an emergency plumber managed to stop the water leak and get the heating back on.
The system, called DeHiGate, allows emergency workers to effectively set up their own private network in a crisis, one that can't be clogged by outside communications. cell phones or other mobile equipment that allows them to talk with each other and the command vehicle, as well as transmit on-the-scene video of the disaster, said Vidar Karlsen, a manager at the Norwegian branch of the French electronics firm Thales, which is helping develop the system. Livescience.com
And when you have a blockage, the alarm goes off and it sends the alarm and the electrogram to an external device, which gets your baseline electrogram from 24 hours ago and the one that caused the alarm, so you can take it to the emergency room and show them, and say, take care of me right away. Robert Fischell on medical inventing
It was just a sort of blackened, charred wreckage, smoke rising and emergency services all over the place.
They also want all prisoners detained during the revolution to be released and for the repressive emergency law to be repealed. Times, Sunday Times
The jockey was kicked by another horse and racing was delayed for almost two hours while officials waited for emergency services to arrive. Times, Sunday Times
From the flight deck of the 4,100 tonne frigate the patient was taken to the wardroom where the ship's doctor and medics began emergency treatment including transfusions and oxygen therapy.
Add a dose of kennel cough and you could be faced with a medical emergency. Times, Sunday Times
They had to break into the emergency food supplies.
A case of smallpox anywhere in the world would represent a global health emergency.
The number of hospitals carrying out emergency surgery and treating patients who have suddenly become seriously ill will also be reduced. Times, Sunday Times
No alarm was sounded at the hospital to indicate any emergency.
The sudden onset of myelopathy secondary to spinal metastasis is a true neurologic emergency.
Both schools already have policies of advice, contraception and emergency contraception.
Unlike a real emergency, drills can be fun, but they are also stressful.
The hospital had been alerted and by the time we got there the doctor was already waiting outside for us and we went straight into the emergency room where they staunched the blood flow.
This is also the time of year to carry out maintenance on existing systems, to save having to call out an emergency plumber in the depths of winter.
However, as she did not have medical insurance, no US hospital would treat her and the British government refused to pay for an emergency airlift back to the UK.
Do not leave bags lying around which could block the emergency exits.
In emergency situations, the prescription order must be countersigned by the prescribing physician or dentist within 72 hours.

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