Sentences with phrase «as the tragedy in»

As the tragedy in the Mediterranean demonstrates, the climate crisis is a humanitarian crisis http://t.co/UYs7m9am0L

As the tragedy in Burma has unfolded over the last week, accurate information has been extremely hard to come by.

I am not referring to well documented cases, such as the tragedy in India in 1984, but rather a story that was going around before that time.

Not exact matches

(The connective tissue in the latter, as readers discover, is the role human empathy plays in the public response to the tragedy.)

«As you know, a lot has been in the media following the Humboldt tragedy and there is a spotlight on Class 1 testing and Class 1 driver training and that's OK.

As civil rights historian Taylor Branch wrote in a much - talked - about 2011 Atlantic article: «The tragedy at the heart of college sports is not that some college athletes are getting paid, but that more of them are not.»

Part of the SBA's congressional mandate is disbursing loans to businesses and homeowners in areas devastated by tragedy, such as where Hurricane Sandy barreled through the Northeast or in areas out West ravaged by wild fires.

In her resignation letter, Simon said as tragedies are politicized, blame is inevitable.

It is a hamfisted cautionary tale about global warming (which, via the film's scientific hand - waving, produces an ice age), but it also functions as a powerful 9/11 allegory, celebrating the ability of New Yorkers to unify in the face of tragedy.

The fact that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is young, and in the same age group as many of our readers, makes it all the more important for us to examine the complexities of this issue and gain a more complete understanding of how a tragedy like this happens.

For decades, he has negotiated and determined the size of settlement payouts for victims of such tragedies as the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Virginia Tech massacre, the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting, and the Boston Marathon bombing.

CEO Richard Branson, immediately upon learning of the tragedy, wrote a brief message about his personal grief even as he prepared for an in - person flight to visit the crash site to meet with the people involved.

«This tragedy could have been prevented if San Francisco had simply turned the alien over to ICE as we requested, instead of releasing him back onto the streets,» ICE Director Thomas Homan said in a statement on Thursday.

«After Jordan's two brothers, Vidal and Kevon, along with their two friends, were forced to experience this tragedy up close as occupants of the car, they were immediately treated as common criminals by other officers; manhandled, intimidated and arrested, while their brother lay dying in the front seat,» a statement released by the Edwards family said.

Even when faced with the worst of tragedies, such as a death in the family, resilient people collect, plan, and act until things are back to normal.

Most important, FedEx believes urgent action is required at the local, state, and Federal level to protect schools and students from incidents such as the horrific tragedy in Florida on February 14th,» FedEx said in a statement.

Criticism and conspiracy theories emerged almost as soon as the survivors of the spoke out in the wake of the tragedy.

In the wake of this most recent tragedy, one Duke professor expressed skepticism about whether the University is properly prepared for imminent security threats such as active shooter situations.

Again, I want to stress that the U.S. economy was already in recession (which will ultimately be dated as beginning during the first quarter of 2001), and the market was already in a bear market before last week's tragedy.

The announcements come in the wake of the tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14 and as much of the public has buffeted the NRA and called for stricter gun regulations.

There's no book to follow, and I think connections to other people who've experienced this from other tragedies, or from Sandy Hook, can be useful as guideposts for people here in terms of, «Well, this is what happened that we weren't expecting, and this is how we handled it.

Kalanick — who has undergone his share of trouble (and also personal tragedy) this year — will also address the crowd gathered at Uber's Market Street headquarters, as well as employees who will be dialing in from all over the world.

It's time to demand greater responsibility from gun manufacturers and the NRA as they once again shrug their shoulders and dodge their complicity in what has become a recurring American tragedy.

Mr. Trump, who has often struggled to express empathy in the face of tragedy, appeared moved by the personal stories, even as he asked repeatedly whether anyone in the ornate room at the White House knew how such horrors could be prevented.

As we focus on these issues and meeting the needs of our students and families during this difficult time, the rise in «fake news» related to this tragedy is reprehensible.

«That action has sadly never come and as the weeks pass from the most recent mass shooting, it appears we remain in the same cycle of tragedy and inaction.»

«In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, our country's better angels are showing up with compassion and incredible strength as Americans help Americans through this tragedy.»

The CEOs of both Bear and JP Morgan were there to account for themselves, sitting side - by - side as if in some slow bit of a Shakespearian tragedy.

It is a tragedy as significant as European cities leveled in WW2, or the black plague.

Tomorrow is gonna bring out the best in humanity as we come together to move forward from this unspeakable tragedy,» he said.

«Today Cardinal Dolan had the long - awaited opportunity to talk about his decision nine years ago in Milwaukee to publicize the names of priests who had abused children and how he responded to the tragedy of past clergy sexual abuse of minors, during the time he was privileged to serve as archbishop of Milwaukee,» Joseph Zwilling, a spokesman for the Archdiocese of New York, said in a written statement.

Making (i.e., choosing) wars is what politicians do, such as the warrior - statesman Henry V. Coriolanus is thus not focused upon weighing the value of war (which K. Branagh was right to detect in Henry V), but rather is zeroed in upon the tragedy of the polis.

But, as a person who tries to depend on reason and community harmony, I don't see a problem with it being there, as long as we can have a mosque in the neighborhood, a star of David, and whatever else represents people who lost their lives in this national tragedy.

All human beings face contradictions and sharp differences within their souls, but few have the conflicts in their souls put on display as a national tragedy no less than a personal contradiction.

Alternative: We need to take care to name both the tragedy and the resilience in any situation — the fragility of a local person, as well as their assets and skills.

(A committed Christian must acknowledge that intrinsic worth, and yet how many of us react with dismay when reading of such terrible tragedies as the burning of the library in Alexandria, the destruction of the Parthenon during the Crusades and the bombing of cathedrals in World War II while scarcely giving a thought to the thousands of nameless civilians buried in the rubble of those edifices?)

The trick of teaching children becomes shepherding kids through their own brokenness, letting them in on the tragedy of the world at the same time as you let them in on the goodness of God.

History is indeed a moral order, in which judgements of the living God take effect; but this view can not be fully verified upon the plane of history as we know it, since there is an irreducible element of tragedy in human affairs.

One reason Ethiopians were involved in high - profile tragedies at opposite ends of the continent: Their nation is the second-most populous in Africa as well as the second - poorest in the world (87 percent of Ethiopia's 94 million people are impoverished).

Thanos was the only character who undergoes a significant transformation in this movie, really developing as a character and experiencing a very twisted sense of tragedy.

My focus, in responding to tragedy, must be like «a cup of cool water», as the Lord Jesus said.

Huckabee: Thanos was the only character who undergoes a significant transformation in this movie, really developing as a character and experiencing a very twisted sense of tragedy.

Over the weekend, countless more Americans will look to clergy as they struggle to process a tragedy in which so many of the victims were children.

as in the denouement of some ancient tragedy the forces at work were now furthered, now hindered, until God's ends were achieved.

The self in tragedy, as in romance, is heroic, but unlike the romantic hero, the tragic hero submits to a harshly authentic world.

Comic and romantic narratives that envisioned cure were counterbalanced by tales of tragedy and irony that depicted settings in which I was to accept my body, and thus the world, as it is.

what is very interesting to me tonite is the folks who are positive there is no god... what is equally interesting is the snarling that appears whenever one does not «toe» the atheist line of no god... It has been said over and over here, «there is no proof of your God» ad nauseum I might add... OK... please, I am asking you in the nicest possible way... explain to me, without a Designed, where the universe and all it entails, first got its source... I really would like to know... from everything I see, I see beauty, design, tragedy, poetry, poverty, etc.... How did we begin to name or classify any of this... what intelligence gave us our intelligence... I have yet to see an anwer posited as to how it all came about, absent a Designer... I will wait for an answer... How did it ALL get here, and explain the precision and engineering of it all — right down to the last jot of DNA.

That is how Mark ponders and wrestles with and finally solves the problem: Christ had to die — it was the divine decree — but Christ voluntarily accepted his death, as «for many»; and the characters in the tragedy all express, the events in the story all serve, this one overmastering purpose.

Most stories in Northrop Frye's great literary circle blend two adjoining genres and are therefore identified by such double terms as comic ironies, tragic romances, or romantic tragedies (the noun in each phrase denotes the dominant type).

And when tragedy strikes another family they justify it with musings in their heads about the others not being as worthy or not trying hard enough which is why bad things befell them.