1.   Against this backdrop, a crisis was brewing in Britain.

2.   At home a crisis was brewing.

3.   The crisis had been brewing for so long, however, that the tsar could not be bought off with a decision on the Holy Places.

4.   A new and potentially volatile crisis is brewing between the United States and North Korea.

5.   But a crisis was brewing.

6.   But clearly, momentum has gone and crisis is brewing.

7.   Criticism of Clinton by his Republican rival, Bob Dole, for allowing the crisis to brew turned to patriotic expressions of solidarity once the military response was launched.

8.   Just as a new government in Kabul has begun moving to rebuild a ravaged Afghanistan, a new crisis is brewing next door.

9.   The crisis has been brewing for some time but until now both sides were striving to keep matters calm.

10.   The IMF notes that it often detects signs that a crisis is brewing, only to discover later that the crisis never arrives.