Sentences with phrase «national mourning for»

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Worshippers arrived at church on a National Day of Mourning that was still brightly decorated for Easter.

April 23, 1995 was declared by President Bill Clinton to be a National Day of Mourning for the victims of the terrorist bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19.

I was so stunned that he would take a day of national mourning and turn it into a bully pulpit for his moral crusade I didn't even think to walk out until he was done.

Belgium is observing three days of national mourning and was observinga minute's silence for the victims at midday (11:00 GMT).

This is something which has been very well documented and mourned in a report from the National Academy of Sciences that was issued by a committee headed by Norman Augustine just a few months ago and this report — which is called «he Gathering Storm» — lays out in some detail the concern that that [leaves us] with a long hole over the next couple of decades, because of weaknesses in [the] way we fund basic physical sciences, the way we are training people to do physical sciences, the way we treat science in elementary and high - school programs — all of those factors, the way we pay teachers, the way we use the patent system where we try to provide incentives in some of the physical sciences; we are losing our leadership gradually to other countries, especially in Europe and [of] particular concern in Asia, where the rise of science in, particularly China, to a certain extent India and other parts of Southeast Asia, are cause for long - term concern.

By Susie Smith This week marks National School Counseling week, a time originally set aside for celebration but perhaps should be one meant for mourning.

I believe almost no US citizens are aware for example that today in Canada is celebrated the National Day of Mourning, the 25th anniversary of the trading of Wayne Gretzky (he's a hockey player), to Los Angeles, much less how Canadians rate left and right.

We are talking about a woman who regards breaking a false nail as a cause for national mourning.