Washington is deeply reluctant to make an end run around the budget accord by declaring a temporary economic emergency.

The idea is that we are handling a temporary emergency with humanity, greater humanity than they could expect from mere governments.

In other words, the concentration of power in the hands of the President was not a question of temporary emergency.

It is only a temporary emergency.

George, there is nothing in this world so permanent as a temporary emergency.

When it subsided, she pressed another button, one that had been set up for a temporary emergency.

"We merely request you to drive safely, during this temporary emergency while our service is incomplete."

Welfare should be treated as a response to a temporary emergency, not as a permanent way of life.

The so-called temporary emergency was declared over two hundred years ago.

Money from weekly collections paid rent and utility bills in temporary emergencies.