Analysts say the economy will not recover from a prolonged crisis of confidence.

"Our economy can certainly be affected if a sufficient number of emerging nations" head into a prolonged crisis.

The prolonged electoral crisis of the party was thus ended.

"Albania is going to be in a prolonged crisis," said a Western diplomat who knows the country well.

If we don't get the vote we head for prolonged crisis.

Germany is going through a prolonged economic crisis, with cultural budgets being trimmed nationwide.

Several weeks ago, the board decided the route out of a prolonged crisis had to be via a young, but internationally-experienced coach.

But China's prolonged political crisis has inhibited responsiveness to global change.

At the very least, it would produce a prolonged constitutional crisis just when we can least afford one.

The country descended into a prolonged political crisis, and elections were scheduled for late April 1967.