Sentences with phrase «such as the tragedy»

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.

I am not referring to well documented cases, such as the tragedy in India in 1984, but rather a story that was going around before that time.

Not exact matches

Part of the SBA's congressional mandate is disbursing loans to businesses and homeowners in areas devastated by tragedy, such as where Hurricane Sandy barreled through the Northeast or in areas out West ravaged by wild fires.

For decades, he has negotiated and determined the size of settlement payouts for victims of such tragedies as the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Virginia Tech massacre, the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting, and the Boston Marathon bombing.

«We're most proud of how GoFundMe has helped those affected by national tragedies such as the Colorado theater shooting, Hurricane Sandy, the Boston marathon bombings, and the Oklahoma City tornadoes,» says Damphousse.

Indeed, some see such a tragedy as preventable with more legislation that regulates gun ownership.

Even when faced with the worst of tragedies, such as a death in the family, resilient people collect, plan, and act until things are back to normal.

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.

Though grief is a lifelong process, for some a personal tragedy such as this can be a springboard to launch an organization focused on bringing attention to an important cause.

In the wake of this most recent tragedy, one Duke professor expressed skepticism about whether the University is properly prepared for imminent security threats such as active shooter situations.

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.

Making (i.e., choosing) wars is what politicians do, such as the warrior - statesman Henry V. Coriolanus is thus not focused upon weighing the value of war (which K. Branagh was right to detect in Henry V), but rather is zeroed in upon the tragedy of the polis.

Gun laws may indeed be part of the answer to prevent tragedies such as this, but no law can prevent evil deeds outright.

(A committed Christian must acknowledge that intrinsic worth, and yet how many of us react with dismay when reading of such terrible tragedies as the burning of the library in Alexandria, the destruction of the Parthenon during the Crusades and the bombing of cathedrals in World War II while scarcely giving a thought to the thousands of nameless civilians buried in the rubble of those edifices?)

Most stories in Northrop Frye's great literary circle blend two adjoining genres and are therefore identified by such double terms as comic ironies, tragic romances, or romantic tragedies (the noun in each phrase denotes the dominant type).

(Jeremiah 7:31; 19:5; 32:35) In the next generation Ezekiel tried another apologetic: granting both that the command to sacrifice children was in the Law, as it obviously was, and that Yahweh was responsible for its presence there, he asserted none the less that; Yahweh had given «statutes that were not good, and ordinances wherein they should not live,» for the ultimate purpose of punishing them with such desolation that they might recognize the divine hand in their tragedy.

Bloom's counterweight to this dreary reductionism is the Great Tradition of Western letters from Plato to Tolstoy; and most of the book is devoted to individual chapters on such novelists as Rousseau, Austen, Stendahl, and Tolstoy, with a whole section devoted to the romantic comedies and tragedies of Shakespeare, and a concluding fugue on Plato's Symposium.

The burdens of the book are to establish that television and movies are nihilistic; they display the inherent tendency of democratic liberalism towards nihilism; they remove any possibility for classical tragedy or comedy; and they hold up «demonic antiheroes» such as Hannibal Lecter for our emulation.

The coercive power of the state has forced the secularization of charitable work, leading to such tragedies as the closing of religious charities that refuse to secularize their ministries.

The problem you will always have is the same as, I guess, those who use such tragedies.

Both the nobility and the tragedy of heroes such as Achilles and Hector are set against a background of meaningless flux.

Indeed, such captivity produces politicized religion and religionized politics, and the result, as we know from bitter historical experience, is tragedy for both religion and public life.

Indeed, it has been supposed by some that the teraphim, household gods, (Genesis 35:4; 31:19; 30 - 35; I Samuel 15:23; 19:13, 16; II Kings 23:24) were originally images of ancestors; that they were honored as such and were part of the apparatus of popular religion; (Hosea 3:4) that mortuary customs which the prophetic school later condemned grew up around them; (Cf. Deuteronomy 26:13 - 14) that the right of performing the necessary ceremonies for one's ancestors devolved upon a son and that this fact underlay both the sense of tragedy in being sonless and the practices of levirate marriage and of adoption to avoid such disaster; (Cf. Genesis 15:2 - 3; 30:3 - 8; Deuteronomy 25:5 - 10) and that this set of ideas and customs was an integral part of the whole clan organization of early Israel.

Never have I seen such a strange tragedy as Jean Racine's Phèdre (1677), performed by a French troupe in 1975 for an American audience.

Its basic mode is entertainment, even in presenting such unlikely entertainment as human suffering and tragedy.

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

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.

If Mahler is successful in expressing the texture of our experience, it is because he has managed to develop his musical motifs in such fashion as to recreate for us our sense of participation within the world: our experience includes both times of joyful freedom and optimism, and times of tragedy and vulnerability.

As such, they will «turn people on» to God, life, creativity, relationships, tragedy, loving, being real, and fighting evil in society.

I see this happen a lot in the church when Black women suffer tragedies such as financial struggle, a terminal or fatal illness, and the death of a child or spouse.

And when something as terrible as Columbine's tragedy occurs - politicians immediately look for a scapegoat such as the NRA.

Of note he has started to make space in the midfield by asking Campbell to find a new team, another player who is far better than the english core, but will not be given the time to grow, as the likes of Ramsay, Wilshere, Walcott and Chamberlain,, even to the detriment of the team position in the league, such a tragedy

While I think that stories such as this one give us great opportunities to discuss the safety and merits of UC and the differences between UC and Homebirth, I do NOT think it's appropriate to dissect the details of this particular tragedy.

Simple safeguards such as placing your baby on his back to sleep and keeping the sleep environment clear from any excess items can reduce the risk of this tragedy by up to 60 %.

Those tragedies might not even be recorded as such, and are probably not scrutinised, picked apart, and then used to effect change.

I am not so religious as I once was, but the only explaination I can fathom why such tragedies are «allowed» is to serve as a teaching tool to warn other women from making the same mistakes.

If your preschooler wants to know more about what happened, use words she'll understand, such as «bad man» and «hurt» as opposed to «shooter,» «gunman,» or «tragedy.»

Lest you think that such vicious behavior is somehow restricted only to gun rights activists, consider the response of midwives and lactation consultants to the tragedies that arise as a result of their beloved ideologies.

«Kids are very intuitive and perceptive,» says child development and parenting expert Denise Daniels, who has helped children around the globe cope with losses as a result of tragedies such as 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia.

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.

In My Blood: Six Generations of Madness and Desire in an American Family By John Sedgwick HarperCollins, 400 pages, $ 25.95 Dig deeply into any family history and you're bound to unearth a mosaic of tragedies and farces, but few families have given rise to as many prominent figures as the Sedgwick clan has, few have created such archival treasures, and few can trace their American lineage back to 1635.

Yet as the number of such births grows, so does the number of tragedies — and those stories tend to be left out of soft - focus lifestyle features.

Political figures and heavyweights such as President Nana Addo, Vice President Dr Bawumia and former President John Mahama among many others have eulogized the hard working KABA and described his death as a tragedy to the country and the journalism profession.

The tragedy appears to have stalled Republicans — such as Rep. Chris Collins of Clarence — who want to further expand the rights of gun owners in America, they said.

His comments drew criticism from several users on Twitter, including politicians, who thought it was inconsiderate of the president to use a mass tragedy such as the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre to reiterate his criticism of the Russia investigation.

They have instigated a police investigation and a public inquiry into the tragedy (this won't prevent future tragedies such as this one happening again, but will be a deterrent for any misconduct).

What actions currently have the UK government taken to try to prevent a tragedy such as this happening again?

In the days and weeks to come questions will continue to be asked about how a tragedy such as the Grenfell Tower fire could happen.

One of the tragedies of Benedict's papacy was that it mired such a brilliant mind — as anyone who has read his theology or his masterly papal encyclicals will testify — in such intractable and toxic scandal.

«As the father of three young women, I can not imagine the pain and the anguish of such a tragedy.