Sentences with phrase «as tragedy puts»

De Blasio encouraged the city to stay resolute as a tragedy put him into the national spotlight.

Not exact matches

Kurdock said the deadly crash should serve as a «startling reminder» to members of Congress that they need to «think through all the issues to put together the best bill they can to hopefully prevent more of these tragedies from occurring.»

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.

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.

As a college classmate who blogged a few days ago put it, they died in a «national tragedy.»

we have to contend with them removing our prayer and worship from our schools, trying to remove it from our court rooms and money, but we do not have to put up with their intolerance when it comes to those lost in an unnecessary tragedy as 9/11.

So all of us around the country who are NOT putting up crosses but are just as devastated by this tragedy, we're just haters, right?

Religious illiteracy, as Prothero puts it, is a tragedy when it prevents people of faith from recognizing one another as such.

«It was a tragedy to put them through it, the other two individuals as well as their families, but I think it's very telling those six months after the fact there's not a peep or anything coming forth to suggest any wrong doing,» said Collins.

The logic goes that if companies are putting the proper processes in place across their businesses and supply chains and responding to minor infringements as they happen, then shocking human tragedies like Rana Plaza should be avoided.

Tough talk aside, Powell plays down any echoes of a «Greek tragedy,» as he puts it.

Tragedy Girls Review: Two best friends find their friendship tested as their desire for internet stardom puts them face - to - face with a local maniac.

The couple works as well as it needs to in order to put human faces on this mass tragedy.

His hilarious send - up of the Bush administration's horrendous decision to turn the tragedy of Sept. 11 into a reckless and nonsensical invasion of Iraq was acknowledged to be, as one Salon writer put it, not just a blistering critique of Bush's policies but also a ridicule of the «ever - cheapening discourse that passes for political debate» about those policies.

Just as Anam uses the reconstruction of the whale fossil to explore Zubaida's attempt to put together her own past, she uses the ship - breaking and reconstructing of the luxury liner Grace as an ironic tragedy; to show that our human attempts to put pieces together and solve mysteries often, unfortunately, fail to succeed.

Richard Heysek, President of The Veterinary Care Foundation, stated «We have historically worked with a large number of veterinarians in the greater Houston area, so it became clear to us that we should create a charitable fund to help the many pets and their families that have been put in harm's way as a result of this tragedy.»

Then there's Wayne's relationship with Commissioner Gordon which puts Bruce in yet another awkward position, plus the return of Jason Todd who, as we've already covered, is often referred to as Bruce's greatest failure, a tragedy that weighs heavily on his mind.

Given how such imagery has become so commonplace, I found myself wondering this week whether such views of Earth have retained the ability to inspire and meaningfully engage people back on the surface with the reality that all of our triumphs and tragedies, dreams and defeats are limited to a tiny «pale blue dot,» as Carl Sagan so eloquently put things two decades ago (it was this phrase that inspired the name of this blog back in 2007).

It is my hope and prayer that the victims of this tragedy find the help that they need as they put the pieces of their lives back together.

Too often we fall into the trap of imagining we have all the time in the world to get around to all those things we've been putting off, when in reality, as such tragedies forcefully remind us, life is all too short.

As one Parkland, Florida, rabbi put it after the attack there a week ago, a shooting reverberates throughout the population — no one is truly untouched by such a tragedy.

Since Columbine we have seen the rise of long - term leadership coming from the students impacted by these tragedies and seeing the Stoneman Douglas students, as well as organizations like Power U and Florida Student Power Network put words into action has definitely inspired me.

Join Kathy Flaminio as she shares how her teaching of mindfulness was put to the test when tragedy hit home.