Nothing, after all, would unstick Paul from a full-blown crisis.

All that changed when fiscal and economic problems boiled over late last year into a full-blown crisis.

It would not take much to spark a full-blown crisis, most probably unplanned.

In 2008, the economy took a turn for the worse in late summer and by September we were facing a full-blown crisis.

A full-blown crisis there would cause almost incalculable financial harm.

It's pretty hard to have a full-blown crisis the first year.

That, in turn, could bring major European banks to insolvency and risk a full-blown financial crisis.

"What would once have been a difficult patch for someone in the past is now a full-blown crisis."

This controversy soon led to what some see as a full-blown internal crisis and fragmentation.

We've got a full-blown crisis on our hands