Sentences with phrase «on human tragedy»

A report coming out today puts a dollar cost on the human tragedy of school drop outs.

Calling them «migrants» puts a political label on the human tragedy.

Christian Scientists generally would agree that bringing prayer to bear on human tragedy and suffering does not preclude taking other practical steps to alleviate them.

Not exact matches

Calling the crisis a «national shame and a human tragedy,» Trump vowed to crack down on heroin imports from Mexico and fentanyl imports from China.

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.

Corrections please,,, My say as a human to human, from brother to a brother derived from our father and mother Adam & Eve, kindly ask your American Nation to unite all races and faiths under one ceiling and not to Crash down otherwise it will go back to pieces and fragments of pieces, we are here with you on the Ship, Ark still can feel and suffer the results of the vibrations that has reached us since the 9/11 tragedy and the following Global Economy Crash and we do not want those any more as much as you do but nothing we ordinary ones can do other than be heard complaining and that what we are doing here right now where I am to Remind out of but have no Control Over.?!

The difference is that he never forgot that politics is one way in which very imperfect human beings can enact projects based on moral reasoning; that politics is a theater of both comedy and tragedy, relentless in the teaching of humility.

My mind immediately jumped to the disgusting proselytizing that so often occurs right after a natural disaster or human tragedy — whether in a family, or on a larger scale.

But unless we have to a far greater degree than at present the ordering of society on the basis of the supreme worth of every human being, we shall have repeated outbursts of world tragedy.

My say as a human to human, from brother to a brother derived from our father and mother Adam & Eve, kindly ask your American Nation to unite all races and faiths under one ceiling and not to Crash down otherwise it will go back to pieces and fragments of pieces, we are here with you on the Ship, Ark still can feel and suffer the results of the vibrations that has reached us since the 9/11 tragedy and the following Global Economy Crash and we do not want those any more as much as you do but nothing we ordinary ones can do other than be heard complaining and that what we are doing here right now where I am to Remind out of but have no Control Over.?!

In a recent book I read (Engaging the Powers), the author suggested that such a response is natural in light of the ever - increasing tide of natural catastrophes and human tragedies that are paraded before our eyes on Television and the Newspapers on a daily basis.

If the resurrection is the true dénouement of the whole story and not a «happy ending» tacked on to a tragedy, then there is an element in the story itself which brings us to the frontiers of normal human experience, where experience runs out into mystery.

And we remain on the earth, unchanged: human folly and tragedy remain what they have always been — but with the gnawing of love, the leaven concealed in the dough (but it has not yet risen), the seed hidden in the ground (but it has not sprung up), and the salt put in the soup (but it has not dissolved).

We still have to ask ourselves what the story says about how God deals with humans, and what is going on behind the scenes in some (but not all) of the tragedies and difficulties of human life.

Driven by personal tragedy... and a desire to convert every single human on the planet to his misguided, sectarian belief system, man builds wooden symbols of Jew who may have lived 2000 years ago.

Even though human conflicts and the September 11 tragedy can be explained in political and social terms, explicitly or implicitly religious components shape and motivate them depending on the persons who give leadership to them.

As Jesus» will was always centred on the Father and his mind was not clouded by the attractions of sin, he was able to grasp the true tragedy of our human condition in a way that only great saints have understood.

These four factors — the law - abiding order of the world, the progressive, evolutionary nature of the world, the human power to choose and to decide, and the human loves and loyalties that create homes and friendships — account for all the tragedy and suffering on earth.

not really making the news, the atmosphere on last wednesday was really strange, silent, step by step to normal football, but you can't throw away your thoughts immediately, I just got a glimpse of Enkes personality during a film of him shown before the match, I can't realize how hard it must be for his wife to lose him, tomorrow the players of Germans first Bundesliga will wear a black ribbon again, but I think it won't affect the atmosphere like it has with the national team despite of Hannover of course, people will be enthousiastic again, but there is the idea of an «Enke donation» which I like, will keep his name alive, will take some positive emotions on this tragedy and a kind of appeal for everyone to reflect the important things of life and control your own behaviour, I hope so at least, and I hope his wife will cope with that situation, and again: it was really hard for the German nationl team to play under these circumstances, to lose someone close in this way is hard to deal with, on the other hand it causes a close solidarity feeling I think, but of course the world will not change, things are returning to the old soon, but nonetheless for me this tragedy is a kind of human wake - up call, at least a call and then you continue

It is an unfortunate fact of life that large scale tragedies will continue to occur, as the earthquakes in Japan and the horrific events in Norway attest, so Elizabeth's advice to other psychiatrists looking to help survivors and rescuers in future events would be to not focus on the therapy they have learned but instead invest time in listening and providing comfort by simple human contact.

As a result one person per day is dying on the transplant waiting list as a result, something Mr Brown describes as an «avoidable human tragedy we can and must address».

It is hard to rank human tragedies, but by all accounts this is one of the worst on the African continent today.

In the essay, she touches on one of the great tragedies of NASA's human spaceflight program: It was on that launchpad that the Apollo 1 capsule caught fire during a test exercise, killing all three men inside.

DUTY BOUND KILLINGS Part of the Kigali Genocide Memorial, these photographs of Rwandans killed in a 1994 mass slaughter put human faces on an unimaginable tragedy.

In «Tragic end for Puerto Rico site,» he reported on a NEON site in Puerto Rico that «was undone by a human tragedy [but also] represented a loss of capacity for the project.»

Pushing the limits of human exploration has always been risky, yet after each space tragedy, presidents and pundits conclude that the program must go on.

But beyond the human tragedy, the war has also taken its toll on the DRC's wildlife as a result of insecurity, heightened illegal bushmeat trade and increased deforestation.

«Otherwise their hope goes on forever, and the tragedy and human cost go on forever, while the ability to live autonomously never comes.»

Last week, at the Society for Conservation Biology's annual meeting in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, researchers and conservationists gathered to highlight how the HIV epidemic is threatening biodiversity, and to share information on how to alleviate an escalating human and environmental tragedy.

On the other hand Tobin who is also dealing with personal tragedy is all about instinct action and reading into the most primal human behaviors.

Co-writer and director Alfonso Cuarón found strength in tragedy in an oddly therapeutic way while musing on the incredible technological achievements of the human race and the ability for the mind, body and spirit to endure against all odds.

Like the best scenes in Wes Craven's Last House on the Left or all of Tobe Hooper's original The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Manson Family places horror in our face in a way a glib depiction of human tragedy like Pearl Harbor does not.

Filmed entirely in black - and - white on location in Poland, Schindler's List does not downplay the faults of its magnanimous and unlikely hero, but relates a story of the triumph of the human spirit in the face of horrific devastation and tragedy.

After tragedy strikes, he soon winds up on an epic journey, a vision quest without the fire, accompanied by a human boy he calls Spot (Jack Bright) who scurries around on all fours and howls like a wolf.

Yet it is precisely this first - hand element that allows his depiction of a horrendous human tragedy to hit its targets on such a gut level.

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

At times the spectacle seems distracting from the human story, at other times his determination to ground the action in human terms (with all the mortal dangers involved) becomes alarmingly intense, less a superhero action movie than a grim urban tragedy (Berg's on - the - job directorial training on the medical drama Chicago Hope comes in handy here).

The answer is not many - but there are some, In There is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children, Greene puts a human face on this overwhelming tragedy by focusing on one imperfect woman, Haregwoin Teferra, who in the face of her own tragedy found the strength to take in orphans, both HIV - positive and negative and since then has given hope and a home to dozens, if not hundreds of children.

The result is a beautifully written and absorbing tale of the high seas, scientific exploration, human tragedy, and the world on the cusp of the modern era.

Dogs put their lives on the line every day... for personal protection, for law enforcement, for the disabled, for our freedom and safety by detecting bombs and drugs and pulling victims of tragedy from wreckage, now they're detecting cancer and seizures... things even humans can not do.

The recent tragedy of the killing of Harambe the gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo has had me seriously reflecting on the very odd and often irrational relationship humans have with wild animals in public displays.

A new series of watercolor portraits place a human face on tragedy and amplify the «identifiable victim effect,» [1] drawing our attention away from statistics to the magnitude of the individual loss and unrealized human potential.

«I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions — tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on,» he declared.

It is also an emblem of the human condition, as well as a joke on our human habit of projection, whereby every large circular object with a hole in it becomes a head, capable of tragedy.

Eschewing the war / human tragedy reportage that characterized Magnum's reputation, Franck continued her projects on marginal or isolated lives throughout the rest of her life.

Associated with Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting, Rothko disowned the abstract nature of his paintings, claming that he is interested «Only in expressing basic human emotions — tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on» also, he stated that color is merely an instrument for him.

Oedipus takes on the renowned and influential Greek tragedy in order to interrogate the commanding force that human action can impose over what we perceive to be «destiny.»

Working in collaboration with communities, artisans, engineers, and nonprofits, Chin has created art in toxic landfills, made animated films about human love and tragedy, and commissioned computer games on the subject of forgotten peoples.

Associated with Abstract Expressionism and color field painting, Rothko disowned the abstract nature of his paintings, claming that he is interested «only in expressing basic human emotions — tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on»; also, he stated that color is merely an instrument for him.

In his 1987 autobiography, Schnabel reflected on his thought process for his first plate paintings: «The plates seemed to have a sound, the sound of every violent human tragedy, an anthropomorphic sense of things being smeared and thrown... I wanted to make something that was exploding as much as I wanted to make something that was cohesive.»