Sentences with phrase «as a tragedy for»

The New Yorker — Why Oak Creek Isn't Being Treated as a Tragedy for All Americans — Naunihal Singh — One of a number of articles wondering why this massacre disappeared so quickly from the media, and why it hasn't been framed as what it was: domestic terrorism.

Not exact matches

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 Brian Morgan, the founder of Adventure Life, this weekend's tragedies serve as a sad reminder of September 11th and the havoc terrorism can wreak on business.

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 bombiFor 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 bombifor 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.

Though grief is a lifelong process, for some a personal tragedy such as this can be a springboard to launch an organization focused on bringing attention to an important cause.

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.

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.

David Friedman, Director of Cars and Product Policy and Analysis for Consumers Union, said, «After another tragedy involving Autopilot, Tesla should commit to put safety first — and to stop using consumers as beta testers for unproven technology.

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.

She has seen first - hand how the arts and music have helped her children heal from this tragedy and is committed to make sure the foundation provides this help for as many families as possible.

Rather, they are hired to serve as fake victims of fake tragedies for the purposes of military or police training exercises.

«I'd like to extend my gratitude to the brave men and women who work as law enforcement officials and emergency responders, who risk their lives every day for our safety, and to the police officers who are now doing everything they can to investigate this tragedy.

«We see these laws as a way for law enforcement and families to intervene before these mass tragedies occur,» said Elizabeth Avore, the legal and policy director at Everytown for Gun Safety.

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.

«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.

@CP: before the age of 24 I buried my Mom and 2 children... tragedy didn't make me believe then and it certainly won't make me believe now... if anything those tragedies made me question what kind of an evil monster god really is if he allows 3 innocent people to die horrible deaths (my Mom was an avid believer and went to her grave believing she was going to be with god... it was a comfort for her and eased her mind... I just don't see it as a necessity)

Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale by Frederick Buechner:: Buechner is another perennial favourite of mine but this one somehow escaped my notice for many a year.

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.

(Jeremiah 7:31; 19:5; 32:35) In the next generation Ezekiel tried another apologetic: granting both that the command to sacrifice children was in the Law, as it obviously was, and that Yahweh was responsible for its presence there, he asserted none the less that; Yahweh had given «statutes that were not good, and ordinances wherein they should not live,» for the ultimate purpose of punishing them with such desolation that they might recognize the divine hand in their tragedy.

The tragedy was that the new situation demanded a willingness to sacrifice principles and attitudes previously regarded as essential to the life of the community and its relationship with God, and for this many were unprepared.

Time to take my place as a «creature» again created by God and recognize my limitations, and humbly pray for the Great Physician to work this tragedy out for His glory.

Bell described Bonhoeffer's death as a tragedy not only for Germany but for all of Europe.

If he believes that God is at the beginning as well as at the end, the Alpha as well as the Omega; if his hope for the future arises out of his faith in God's eternal presence; it is because he discerns the manner of God's presence and the way of his working in the strange person of Jesus of Nazareth, in his life and teaching, and not least in the bitter and apparently senseless tragedy of his death.

As he laments his fate, a chorus like that of a Greek tragedy softly but repeatedly calls out, «You got it, you got it» — you got what you asked for.

Wiesel, for whom memory seems to be the closest thing to the image of God in human beings, and who views memory as the central transmitter of ethical and moral insights, depicts the tragedy of Elhanan's increasing disability with enormous understanding and sympathy.

In several of the worst crashes, either wind shear or metal fatigue in engines has been identified as responsible for regrettable human tragedies.

The tragedy of human behavior is that so long as we seek to build ourselves up, to overcome our deficiencies, we in fact only spin webs around ourselves, isolate ourselves more deeply than ever from one another, and reveal our desperate need for the love of God.

Tragedy for Buber, as we have seen, is the conflict between two men through the fact that each of them is as he is.

And even though I don't believe in the symbolism of the cross, I can not deny the historical role this particular «cross» artifact had in the aftermath of the tragedy as a meeting and prayer place for rescue workers etc., which makes it museum worthy.

As for shaving one's head, that is not much different from styling one's hair — not quite in the same league as a surgical procedure, but, yes, wanting to improve one's appearance, as long as it does not become an obsession [I am thinking of the heart - wrenching tragedy of Michael Jackson], is no more culpable than wanting to improve one's mind or any other natural attributAs for shaving one's head, that is not much different from styling one's hair — not quite in the same league as a surgical procedure, but, yes, wanting to improve one's appearance, as long as it does not become an obsession [I am thinking of the heart - wrenching tragedy of Michael Jackson], is no more culpable than wanting to improve one's mind or any other natural attributas a surgical procedure, but, yes, wanting to improve one's appearance, as long as it does not become an obsession [I am thinking of the heart - wrenching tragedy of Michael Jackson], is no more culpable than wanting to improve one's mind or any other natural attributas long as it does not become an obsession [I am thinking of the heart - wrenching tragedy of Michael Jackson], is no more culpable than wanting to improve one's mind or any other natural attributas it does not become an obsession [I am thinking of the heart - wrenching tragedy of Michael Jackson], is no more culpable than wanting to improve one's mind or any other natural attribute.

The burdens of the book are to establish that television and movies are nihilistic; they display the inherent tendency of democratic liberalism towards nihilism; they remove any possibility for classical tragedy or comedy; and they hold up «demonic antiheroes» such as Hannibal Lecter for our emulation.

The religious community must do its part by keeping the tragedy foremost on the political agenda, as it did for the southern war.

So this guy Zanis is a good christian and has built 13,000 crosses, each for a victim of an American tragedy as a tribute.

The old king, broken not so much by his years as by the tragedy of recent weeks and the anxiety of the day, had sat for hours in the gateway, waiting word of the safety of his erring son.

And he does not use the tragedy as a chance to inflate the ranks of his own followers or give some theological explanation for the illness and death of Lazarus... What he does do is share in their grief.

I knew my friends were as rocked by the tragedy as everyone else, so I was dumbfounded when I saw no movement on their parts to join efforts to bring justice for Sean Bell.

«As tempting as it is to use Dunn's tragedy as an object lesson for the living, the lesson we should learn here is that even the celebrities that Dunn's death affected need the space and permission to be human... they need the public to turn their bacAs tempting as it is to use Dunn's tragedy as an object lesson for the living, the lesson we should learn here is that even the celebrities that Dunn's death affected need the space and permission to be human... they need the public to turn their bacas it is to use Dunn's tragedy as an object lesson for the living, the lesson we should learn here is that even the celebrities that Dunn's death affected need the space and permission to be human... they need the public to turn their bacas an object lesson for the living, the lesson we should learn here is that even the celebrities that Dunn's death affected need the space and permission to be human... they need the public to turn their back.

For Milton, it would have dignified the banality of the restored monarchy far too much to equate it with the fall of man; rather, recalling the genuine tragedy of the Fall would prevent a shrunken pessimism from reading a particular disaster as the end of all responsibility.

Rev Tremlett reminded the audience it wasn't enough to acknowledge the mining tragedies over the years, but to use what happened as a fuel for change today.

For his view of tragedy as the result of the inevitable gap between the ideal and the actual in human conduct could also be applied indiscriminately to other situations.

He defended the reputation of his Father in Heaven as well (claiming that God is unable to stop any of us from using our free agency, no matter the cost) and finally sought to turn his family's tragedy into an opportunity for service, saying:

However, the juxtaposition between her apparent happiness and our expectations of traumatic stress and mourning in the wake of personal tragedy served as grist for conspiracy theorists who claim that she is a crisis actor and the murder was staged for some nefarious purpose or other.

God is on our side in life's tragedy, in that he shares it with us, along with all our longing for happiness, so that this longing counts for all it is worth in the divine life, is just as real there as in us.

As a result, He gets himself into compromising situations, takes the blame for horrible human events, and gets His hands dirty in the tragedies of life.

Indeed, such captivity produces politicized religion and religionized politics, and the result, as we know from bitter historical experience, is tragedy for both religion and public life.

In particular, he kept seeing the baffling personal injustice involved when «the wicked doth compass about the righteous,» and, even when he thought of the nation's collective problem, his solution was not so much to blame present social tragedy on antecedent social sin as to believe that justice, now denied, would come in time — «Though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not delay.»

I am first defining the poetic function in a negative manner, following Roman Jakobson, as the inverse of the referential function understood in a narrow descriptive sense, then in a positive way as what in my volume on metaphor I call the metaphorical reference.7 And in this regard, the most extreme paradox is that when language most enters into fiction — e.g., when a poet forges the plot of a tragedy — it most speaks truth because it redescribes reality so well known that it is taken for granted in terms of the new features of this plot.

Indeed, it has been supposed by some that the teraphim, household gods, (Genesis 35:4; 31:19; 30 - 35; I Samuel 15:23; 19:13, 16; II Kings 23:24) were originally images of ancestors; that they were honored as such and were part of the apparatus of popular religion; (Hosea 3:4) that mortuary customs which the prophetic school later condemned grew up around them; (Cf. Deuteronomy 26:13 - 14) that the right of performing the necessary ceremonies for one's ancestors devolved upon a son and that this fact underlay both the sense of tragedy in being sonless and the practices of levirate marriage and of adoption to avoid such disaster; (Cf. Genesis 15:2 - 3; 30:3 - 8; Deuteronomy 25:5 - 10) and that this set of ideas and customs was an integral part of the whole clan organization of early Israel.