Sentences with phrase «as the tragedy at»

In the worst case scenario, such as the tragedy at Rana Plaza on April 24, 2013, over a thousand people die when their workplace collapses.

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At a rare press conference following Bo Xilai's dismissal, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao warned that without further reform China risked plunging into another «tragedy» like the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, when an aged Chairman Mao Zedong rallied peasants, workers and students to upend the social order as a way to vanquish his opponents.

Because this tragedy is still so raw, there was internal debate as to whether this document belonged on the site at all.

I, therefore, thought that the Netherland's finance minister — a country serving as the key enforcer of German austerity - at - all - cost (as long as the costs are not theirs) policies — showed an incredible chutzpah when he lectured the U.S. Congress last Friday that it would be a real tragedy (sic) if mandated spending cuts were to stifle American economic growth.

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.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

Take a look at the website: exmormon.org and you will get a totally different view of the tragedy of Mormonism, as told by those that managed to escape the cult.

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.

Waddesdon Manor, on the Rothschild family - owned estate near the crash site, described the crash as a «tragedy» and added it «did not happen at the manor nor have there been any casualties at Waddesdon Manor».

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).

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

Peace «keeps vivid the sensitiveness to the tragedy; and it sees the tragedy as a living agent persuading the world to aim at fineness beyond the faded level of surrounding fact.

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.

During the course of two hours, tributes were paid to the five, and some frustrations vented at the «disgusting» tragedy that claimed at least 80 lives and left a gutted 24 - storey tower block described by one relative as a «tall coffin in the air».

Maybe we need (this is very tentative) to alert ourselves more than we do to the tragic elements lying just beneath the surface of the parabolic, and even to receive what is offered to us as tragedy as parable, at least in an extended use of that already comprehensive concept.

If at this point in the central tragedy in our history there had occurred the demonstration of the power and glory of the God in whom he trusted; if Elijah had come; if he who saved others had been saved; if we know not what natural or supernatural event had taken place to deliver this soul of faith from death and further shame; then might not faith as universal loyalty and universal trust have been reconstructed among men?

It keeps vivid the sensitiveness to the tragedy; and it sees the tragedy as a living agent persuading the world to aim at fineness beyond the faded level of surrounding fact.

York, who teaches at Elon University, is keen to avoid any description of martyrdom as a tragedy or a sacrifice.

To our knowledge they have two sons, both named, as were Hosea's children, symbolically: Shear - Jashub, «a remnant shall return,» 7:3, obviously predicating the tragedy that will leave only a remnant, but at the same time affirming the expectation of productive survival; and Maher - Shalal - Hash - Baz, «The spoil speeds, the prey hastes,» 8:1 - 3, with initial reference to the imminent collapse of the Rezin - Pekah alliance against Jerusalem in 734, but perhaps later with reference to Judah herself as the soon - to - be spoil and prey of Assyria.

Asking such a question as «Where was God in [insert tragedy here]» hints at a fundamental misunderstanding on the part of the asker: that somehow we're living in some sort of paradise where bad things aren't supposed to happen.

In sufficient number of causes to make us humble, we discover good points in the cause which time has erased, just as one often learns more from the slain hero of a tragedy than from some brassy Fortinbras who comes in at the end to announce the victory and proclaim the future disposition of affairs.

Jeremy, from what I read in Tom Stegall's article «The Tragedy of the Crossless Gospel» Part 1 and 2 at http://www.duluthbible.org/246451.ihtml (I assume this is the article you are referencing), you DO indeed believe in the death, resurrection, and Deity of Jesus Christ as true facts that were required in God's plan of salvation.

In the days immediately following the tragedy, officials at Columbia and Fordham insisted that their Saturday Division I - AA football game in the Bronx would be played: Football at their level is part of the educational process, they said, and the game will go on, just as, say, physics labs and literature seminars went on.

Football as a sport is about winning and when the manager can not inspire a squad of talented players, to perform at their best or to even compete, then it is a tragedy that needs to be resolved urgently before further decline in performances, fortunes and revenues.

Tuesday is the 60th anniversary of the tragedy which claimed 23 lives, including eight of the players, as Sir Matt Busby's side returned from a European Cup match at Red Star Belgrade.

The thoughts of everyone at Liverpool FC, as always, are with the 96, their families, survivors and all affected by the tragedy.

Michel Odent, in his review of research on the «primal period «(the time between conception and the first birthday), concludes that interference or dysfunction at this time affects the development of our capacity to love, which is particularly vulnerable around the time of birth, being connected hormonally to the oxytocin system.3 Research by Jacobsen4 5 and Raine6 among others, suggests that contemporary tragedies such as suicide, drug addiction and violent criminality may be linked to problems in the perinatal period such as exposure to drugs, birth complications and separation or rejection from the mother.

Here at the Center we want to help equip you as a dad by providing some ideas for positive things you can do in response to the Sandy Hook tragedy.

But as we were treated to Mary Stuart at the Almeida theatre; a tale of two women ruling England and Scotland, judges allegedly not being fit to judge, the country north of the border choosing a different path to its contemporaries in the south, a leader wrestling with the will of the people despite being ambivalent of their choice, it is hard not to find strings of resonance in Robert Icke's wonderful adaption of Friedrich Schiller's tragedy.

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At 9 a.m., Assemblyman Walter Mosley announces the «Love Yourself» Brooklyn Peace Concert, in partnership with Sen. Jesse Hamilton, District Leader Geoffrey Davis, and other community members, as a response to tragedies at Brooklyn's J'Ouvert Parade in past years, Medgar Evers College, BrooklyAt 9 a.m., Assemblyman Walter Mosley announces the «Love Yourself» Brooklyn Peace Concert, in partnership with Sen. Jesse Hamilton, District Leader Geoffrey Davis, and other community members, as a response to tragedies at Brooklyn's J'Ouvert Parade in past years, Medgar Evers College, Brooklyat Brooklyn's J'Ouvert Parade in past years, Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn.

He was as statesmanlike as in his recent Commons statement about police corruption at the time of the Hillsborough tragedy.

Tragedy wore its usual look in Borno state on Sunday as a woman was killed by an explosive at a military checkpoint.

History will not judge Darling as a great figure, but this memoir gives a worthwhile glimpse of the Greek tragedy that was being played out next door at No10.

Tragedy struck at Aule in Akure, the Ondo State capital, early Tuesday as a 52 - year - old woman identified as Opeyemi Babatola reportedly committed suicide by hanging herself...

Tragedy struck, yesterday, at Oke - Ota area of Ikorodu, Lagos, as suspected members of Badoo cultists killed four members of a family.

While accidents and tragedies are unavoidable at times, it is critical that we as a community are best prepared to handle them should they occur.

Chukwudi Akasike and Sampson Itode, Port Harcourt Tragedy struck at No. 5, Obudu Street, in Diobu area of Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital as a newly married man, simply identified as Mr. Alozie was burnt to death while cooking with kerosene stove in his kitchen.

And it continues to come up whenever there is a mass shooting incident, such as the recent tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

Gov. Cuomo says «Newtown» humanizes issues highlighted by the December 2012 tragedy, as he attends the documentary's New York City premiere at the Landmark Sunshine Cinema.

Republican mayoral nominee Nicole Malliotakis said on Wednesday that she'd seek to place armed, retired officers at the city's public schools on a rotating basis to prevent tragedies such as...

A few hours later, at about 7:15 Saturday morning, more tragedy struck the borough as 19 - year - old Kevin Mejia was killed after falling from the roof of a six - story apartment building on University Avenue.

IDS - who quit as Work and Pensions Secretary last year - said the Grenfell tragedy, which saw at least 80 people burned to death, should lead to an end in the construction of high - rise flats.

But as you can imagine, in this day of budget cutting in countries around the world, Antarctic science programs are being sliced, so there is this concern that it's a place also that could be kind of forgotten in the not so distant future, and that would be a tragedy because as that ice melts and if it can specifically continues to melt at the rate it is now, that will impact all of the world's oceans.

Using Shakespeare's contributions as a guide, he identified 24 points of similarity between «Sir Thomas More» and «The Spanish Tragedy,» a play republished, with new material, at about the time of «Hamlet.»

Now as it turns out, I mean, again, you said no spoilers, so incredibly all these threads are, to Shakespeare's credit, everything works out okay a few scenes later and there's actually a happy ending, at least by the standards of — I mean it's actually lumped in with the tragedies.