Sentences with phrase «do after a tragedy»

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After past incidents Obama has urged the nation to reject the attacker's ideology and do what it can to prevent such tragedies from happening again.

High school students and parents who had just buried their friends and children asked agonizing questions to lawmakers, ones often repeated after mass tragedies: Why did this happen, and what can be done to prevent it?

In my experience, again, after a tragedy, people come together very quickly because of a shared outrage, shared loss, and they want to do something.

After Newtown, you said, «If you passed the strongest gun control legislation tomorrow, I don't think it will have a profound effect on the tragedies we have seen.»

I was in a Muslim country right after 9/11, and all I got was, «we're so sorry,» «we are all with you,» «this is such a tragedy,» «what can we do for you?»

After listening to a denial that God inflicts tragedies randomly, the journalist intervened with: «I don't understand what you are trying to say... What you seem to be arguing for is a slot machine God... the suffering that has been imposed upon the people of Haiti, many of them clearly innocent, is random.»

I do not give up on the hope that, after some years of penance, a chastened Rembert Weakland might write a reflective memoir, having by then discovered, please God, a measure of the wisdom that was so conspicuously absent from a brilliant career built upon prideful foundations that now, through a combination of tragedy and farce, lie in ruins.

In the meantime, here is an article I wrote after the Jerry Sandusky tragedy with suggestions of what your church should do.

«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.

«To continue to do nothing day after day, week after week, year after year, in the face of what we really all know are terrible tragedies,» Stewart - Cousins said.

I'd seen other people do this — you'd say this after, say, a terrible tragedy in Israel.

After the tragic crash on Monday that took the lives of two young children, Assemblymember Robert Carroll (D - Park Slope - Kensington) believes that the State must do more to prevent tragedies like this from happening again.

«To continue to do nothing day after day, week after week, year after year, in the face of things we really all know are terrible tragedies,» Stewart - Cousins said.

The user highlights don't always involve romance or amazing coincidence — sometimes it's as simple as a person rebounding after a personal tragedy by connecting with users online.

I like focused biopics that don't feel they need to go from cradle to grave, but the focus here gives the film a bit of unearned hero worship, as we see LBJ hold the country together after tragedy and fight for civil rights against caricaturish opponents.

Contradicting a speech made at the beginning of the film about how players are never remembered for what they do on the field if they don't win, Linden has Lengyel (McConaughey, Failure to Launch) give a speech stating the exact opposite, as the film concentrates more on the adversities that the players, coaches, school officials, and members of the community had to overcome in order for the program to not crumble under the overwhelming weight of the tragedy's grim reminder before, during and after every humiliating defeat.

After tragedy hits, Captain America is forced to confront a traitor at SHIELD and he does it, believing that his old - fashioned form of patriotism will be enough to overcome his new enemies.

LBJ never embraced Kennedy's policies more than after his death, where he made it a mission to do the right thing in the face of tragedy, dedicating all his energy to ensure history would think well of him.

After the tragedy in Colorado, Warner Bros decided something they needed to be done about their upcoming flick «Gangster Squad» being that...

It's why we should understand why teachers bristle when people ask, after a violent tragedy, «Why didn't the staff do more to help this child in distress?»

After feeling responsible for two tragedies at home, Kay enrolls in boarding school at Bates Academy in hopes of a do - over.

What does it take to repair and rebuild family relationships after so much division and tragedy?

She had never done laundry in her life.Yet after a family tragedy in 1908, kindergarten teacher Julia Bradshaw takes a humble summer job as a laundress for wealthy bachelor David Easterly.

We didn't hate our jobs — or our lives — but after a series of personal family tragedies we realized there had to be more to life.

Unfortunately the poor cat hoarder does not know their limit and tries to look after more cats than they are capable of, which results in misery and often tragedy for the cats.

For people in less advanced countries with poor infrastructure, I wonder there is nothing we can do rather than donation after tragedy?

For the ones who suffered property losses from this tragedy, how do they move on with their lives after this horrific tragedy?

If they feel, even a little bit, that they had something meaningful that they were able to do after this great tragedy, that will change their lives,» Guskin says.

«As a coaching staff we got together on the morning after the tragedy and started talking about that we really wanted to do something for coach Feis and his family.

Two days after his plea for donations to the «People Over Politics» political action committee, consultant Aaron Nevins used the same committee to send an attack piece in a Fort Lauderdale campaign he's working on that has nothing to do with the Stoneman Douglas tragedy.

It's hard to believe the Senate, who are our representatives, could do this after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland — a tragedy — and all the students» efforts to ban assault weapons.

Clorissa and their son were devastated and did not have the funds to pay for the medical expenses and funeral costs after this tragedy.