More than 20 years before yesterday's tragedy Nasa staff feared that the shuttle would be destroyed while re-entering the atmosphere. |
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Chinese authorities have attributed Friday's tragedy to torrential rains that caused the area's worst flash flood and mudslide in 200 years. |
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My understanding has always been that bluesmen earn their nicknames, either by genetic defect or tragedy of misadventure. |
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Recording a verdict of accidental death, coroner Dr Roy Palmer said the tragedy had been unavoidable. |
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Had it done so, pain and tragedy and loss on a very large scale could have been avoided. |
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We paused with morbid fascination at the scene of the recent lorry tragedy and peered cautiously over the edge. |
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The two-sided tragedy of liberalism is that it doesn't know its own limits, and neither does it know its own strength. |
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The tragedy is that statisticians and pollsters take these pathetic twits seriously. |
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After the war, a new village was built nearby and the tragedy was commemorated by a monument and a memorial rose garden. |
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Trueman's especial tragedy was to make public the bitterness that he felt at the passing of his youth. |
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It also revealed that the Clyde-based agency was short-staffed on the day of the tragedy last July. |
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With the prospect of the tragedy triggering a global recession companies lined up in droves to issue profits warnings and swing the axe. |
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We sense the tragedy of the poetic ballad and the noble lineage of its characters in the very opening measures of the musical rendering. |
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But this provides a tableau of human tragedy which brought me up short when I realised what had happened. |
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The tragedy acted as a catalyst for a whole series of misadventures which culminated in him running up huge debts and going on the run. |
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Clearly, the aircraft was one hot ship and it started piling up victories until tragedy struck at the 1937 Cleveland event. |
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An existential experience of tragedy and loss is converted into technical problems that transmogrify its existential roots. |
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It effectively captures the tragedy and comedy of this scene as the emigrants, blonde and bewigged, scamper across the hills. |
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But police say a sharp-eyed patrolman helped prevent a much larger tragedy there. |
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This tragedy is transformed into a tragicomedy, and indeed, into a farce, by a mechanical device that belongs more to vaudeville than to a novel. |
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Gay icons usually have some tragedy in their lives, but I've only had tragic haircuts and outfits. |
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The tragic lives of parents are never a reason to repeat the tragedy upon their children. |
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However, what is there in linguistic gravity, romance and tragedy is slightly lacking in subtlety. |
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The bedroom scenes were disturbing and memorable, more tragedy then comedy. |
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No one, I confidently told an academic friend this week, writes tragedy any more. |
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Emblem books and tragedy can be considered as the two literary genres in which this twofold image of death is best exemplified. |
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In other words, shifting the format from theatrical tragedy to televisual sitcom. |
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There are two uses of the Shakespearean concept of tragedy that could be drawn on. |
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By a series of unfortunate circumstances, the tragedy of Othello the Moor, was turned into The Moor The Merrier. |
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This turns the play into a gripping tragedy and a moving tale of human frailty. |
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The floods which swept through Mozambique were a natural tragedy which could not have been prevented. |
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But road safety campaigners say the figures hide the human tragedy behind each accident. |
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Each death is a tragedy with devastating life changing effects on the families of the children killed. |
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The government and the media have attempted to portray the tragedy as a natural disaster. |
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It reminded us that some of the zaniest players can play tragedy better than tragedians. |
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It is India's tragedy that when it did so, it decided to treat radio as a milch cow rather than a public resource. |
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The British gangster film has always housed the skeletons of Shakespearean tragedy within it. |
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The immediate response to such human tragedy must be empathy with the pain of those injured and the grief of those bereaved. |
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I sincerely hope that everyone touched by this tragedy can begin to find peace now that the trial is over. |
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A family touched by tragedy are backing an Essex Police campaign to urge car users to belt up. |
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There is, too, a sarcophagus representing, in mezzo-relievo the tragedy of Niobe's daughters. |
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He learned of the tragedy before his current team, the London rugby union side Wasps where he is defensive coach, played a top-level game. |
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The real tragedy of all this is that the real problem behind these events gets lost in the tabloid headlines. |
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We're sorry these warnings were too late to prevent the tragedy that befell your family. |
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He says the tragedy will only serve to bring the two populations closer together. |
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She plays Silly, a Nova Scotian seasprite of girl who is the subject of a marine tragedy of, er, Titanic proportions. |
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What could have been more appropriate for this marital tragedy than, of all operas, Tristan und Isolde? |
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If I was marrying the man I love, nothing, save a tragedy would stop the wedding. |
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Are the networks just sensationalizing another tragedy with a female victim? |
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In different times, we would have known nothing about the tragedy of these tiny lives. |
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It's important to dwell on the positive in life, because tragedy lurks around the corner. |
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She said the tragedy had brought the tight-knit community even closer together. |
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The fact that women end up on the street selling themselves cheaply to get money for drugs is tragedy in itself. |
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And therein lies the tragedy of the public's mislaid focus on this one annual meeting. |
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But it appears that Mori's response to the tragedy has effectively sealed his political fate. |
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They are urged to try breathing exercises or meditation, and to discuss the tragedy with others. |
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The tragedy of the last few years of blood and violence has shown no signs of a peaceful ending. |
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The sirens of an ambulance screamed on the way to the hospital, alerting everyone that a tragedy had occurred. |
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The tale of intrigue, manipulation and tragedy unfolds in 18th-century Korea. |
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The tragedy of the past is not recreated through a deliberate manipulation of the reader's heartstrings. |
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The look on their faces told its own story as they tried to take in the dreadful news of the tragedy that had befallen this community. |
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The purpose of tragedy is catharsis, a powerful emotional experience in which the audience purges the emotions of pity and fear. |
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The correlation between the rigid, socially stratified school system in Germany and the tragedy of Erfurt was striking. |
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Pothole poetry has all the tragedy of lost love if not lost axles and wheels. |
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What a tragedy it would be if such hard-to-come-by individuals were given the heave-ho because of a drafting error in local electoral law. |
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The tragedy offers an opportunity to heal the rift between the United States and the UN and bridge the Atlantic divide. |
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The tragedy is that innocent French civilians had to pay such a high price for bringing everything into the open. |
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His son finds out and it is only at the end of the play we discover the tragedy that results. |
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She said the tragedy of the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers had diverted world focus away from both. |
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His stepfather spotted him in some bushes, and was trying to catch him when the tragedy happened. |
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But the tragedy of the Italian carabinieri shows that foreign troops are targets of attack by insurgents and terrorists in the south, too. |
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People in the area at the time of the tragedy said an offshore wind had blown the inflatable away from the shore. |
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Attempts by the right to make capital out of the tragedy have created a powderkeg. |
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It is a great tragedy that such research bodies in social sciences be controlled by those who are avowed opponents of secularism. |
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The tragedy is the orientation will be in the interests of capital rather than working people. |
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We must, in other words, transform this tragedy into a triumph, a triumph of man's magnificence to man. |
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For so much of the tragedy in disability is created by a society which needlessly handicaps us. |
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They were about to collect her husband, Michael, who worked as a sandblaster and handyman locally, when tragedy struck. |
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And Wiltshire coroner David Masters has recommended halfway houses for mental health patients to try and prevent tragedy happening again. |
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Our failure to look at ourselves in the mirror is the tragedy future historians will be perplexed to read about. |
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This is a tragedy which will supply themes for novelists and poets for centuries. |
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And there was tragedy when Rebecca Davies, a stable girl with James Given, was killed in an accident on the gallops. |
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Technically speaking, the Bhopal tragedy was an accident, in that it was not done on purpose. |
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One more tragedy caused by the voracious appetites of men determined to consume all the diminishing resources of fish left in the seas. |
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However, tragedy occurred once again during a bush fire in 1902, catching the house alight and burning it to ashes. |
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This type of tragedy used to be met with a bureaucratic shrug of indifference. |
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His resignation will be a tragedy for the city and I fear for some of his patients. |
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And they also happen to victimize other innocent people, so the tragedy is compounded. |
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How long can we remain as informed spectators on the sideline watching such tragedy unfold before our eyes? |
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All railway wagons of the kind in the tragedy at Tebay have been removed from service by Network Rail pending its investigation. |
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He was compelled to comment on the causes of the tragedy and the abject conditions that prevailed on the reservation. |
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The religious vision from which Attic tragedy emerged was one of the human community as a kind of besieged citadel. |
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In Greek tragedy the chorus commented on the action, but in Feathers of Peace there is no commentator giving moral comment. |
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A tragedy will still pack the seats of a theatre with those who enjoy wallowing in other people's misery. |
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One facet of this tragedy is the absence of visionary leadership capable of leading humanity out of its quagmire. |
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He is a man who hides the scars of personal tragedy but whose warmth and understanding endear him to people on the edge. |
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The tragedy of the savage, brutal murders perpetrated on two young mothers a few years ago still lingers. |
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Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet employs comedy in its first act to endear us to its characters and set up its plot. |
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At a memorial service on Wednesday evening, school officials and church representatives said the tragedy was an incomprehensible act of God. |
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Cleave is left facing a tragedy and having to come to terms with things failed and half done. |
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If the top golfers are saying they may as well all pack up their bags for the next ten years it's a tragedy and very sad. |
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An inquest jury at Lincoln Crown Court recorded a verdict yesterday that the tragedy had been an accident. |
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The narratives repeat images of humiliation, brutality, and the sheer randomness of tragedy among people who have few allies and fewer options. |
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It would be an unforgivable tragedy for apathy to win the day and alter our sport for all time. |
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Manchester Crown Court was told the tragedy was caused by a momentary, reckless error of judgement. |
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Combining foxy irony with withering disdain, McDiarmid presents us with the tragedy of a man for whom the mask has become the face. |
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Dr David said Annabel's death was an awful tragedy but the family was comforted by the fact she was with God. |
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When Connor sees that Michael's teenage son has witnessed the crime, it spells tragedy for the O'Sullivan family. |
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Scenes of deep tragedy are treated with such a matter of factness and raw economy they become almost palpable in their unprotected sorrowfulness. |
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This wordless tragedy informs every moment of what we are shown from then on. |
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His final 5 bouts following the McClellan tragedy ended with a record of 2-3 with Benn being KO'd on 2 of those occasions. |
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But the feeling brought to us by the tragedy of the five students is deep sorrow, not pride. |
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If his concern is with a number of unfortunate people dying, then just let him note the tragedy and leave the world-weary evaluations alone. |
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The Dover tragedy has refocused attention on Britain's immigration and asylum laws, and the worldwide trade in human trafficking. |
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Your situation highlights the tragedy of the American labor movement and the dilemma facing the working class today. |
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The tragedy has reignited calls for improved safety standards at all country crossings. |
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It would be a tragedy to see this special place spoiled by urban sprawl, given its natural beauty and well-preserved history. |
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And this, the first yahrzeit of that tragedy and the season of the High Holy Days, is an appropriate time to rebuild our selves. |
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This little known renaissance play deals with tragedy which befalls two houses once a lady's honour has been compromised. |
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Beyond the tragedy of a brave man's death two aspects of this case sadden me. |
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They could be doing more, especially to stop brazen looting and rampant lawlessness that has added terror to the tragedy in the city. |
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For he presents evidence showing that emotional breakdown after a tragedy is the exception, not the rule. |
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Members of the club's senior team were on route to Athenry for the match when news of the tragedy broke. |
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In response to the tragedy and the subsequent inquiry and recommendations, major changes were made to the safety regime. |
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To say the least, it is a tragedy generations after generations will anguish about. |
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I can feel depressed and sad enough just knowing about tragedy in a generalized sense. |
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And this is an unthinkable, unspeakable tragedy that, in my opinion, came out of left field. |
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Come on city council, show that you care before a tragedy exposes your neglect. |
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A regular in the TV series, his death in 1979 was an untimely tragedy that dealt a sharp blow to British comedy. |
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It will be a tragedy if the Liberals continue to be the main beneficiaries of this. |
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The jubilation of a Welsh rugby success turned to tragedy at the weekend when a car crash claimed the lives of two young men. |
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To intensify the tragedy of King Lear, Shakespeare has not one but two tragic characters and four villains. |
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An unsupervised visit to a leisure centre ended in tragedy when a girl aged eight was killed trying to cross one of Bradford's busiest roads. |
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It will also be a tragedy for families like mine, who have seen miracles happen in this unit. |
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Perhaps another tragedy but created not in the flashpoint of the boxing ring but over a phenomenal career was that of Muhammad Ali. |
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He filched my material and appropriated my voice and exploited a human tragedy that was really none of his business. |
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This being early in a Hollywood film, when things seem as though they've hit rock bottom, the tragedy has merely begun. |
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The tragedy is that as this scramble continues, Kenya is going through the worst economic slump in living memory. |
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It had all the makings of a tragedy and shows the dangers of candles and the importance of smoke alarms. |
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Shanahan said there were hundreds of pictures of people missing in the tragedy plastered on the walls of the armory. |
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Theresa is at peace now but the rest of you are all left with the sorrow and tragedy of her death. |
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An element of tragedy that occurs has far less impact than it might have had in a more rounded picture. |
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The country's tragedy is that most of its modern leaders are a corrupt, feudal lot. |
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When the family's two dogs were run over 18 months ago, the tragedy affected Adam deeply. |
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It is clearly evident that this tragedy has occurred because I was a naughty, naughty child throughout the past year. |
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Union bosses believe railway maintenance workers are still risking their lives because lessons from the Tebay rail tragedy remain unlearned. |
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He shows us what was so special about the tragedy of the 20th century and the uniqueness of its crisis. |
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Yesterday a tragedy unfolded, a tragic event that could have been avoided, one that led to the unfortunate loss of life. |
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The Godfreys said yesterday it was difficult to process the information as the tragedy unfolded. |
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When Koff unearths the body of a child who has a pocket full of marbles, she muses over the tragedy of the situation. |
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But if American politicians echo the terrorists' blood-lusting, this tragedy will have been turned to slaughterous folly. |
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The tragedy is that, like many of Egypt's undiscovered secrets, some of these items will never see the light of day. |
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That it remains undented after the company's own sequence of Shakespearean tragedy is a triumph. |
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Ethiopian officials warned yesterday of an impending tragedy in the drought-stricken Afar region. |
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An Afrofuturist reading of the transatlantic slave trade becomes an epic tragedy about alien abductees. |
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Comedy and tragedy do not co-exist well and the gap between them widens as the film progresses. |
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And though he tried not to make a tragedy out of being wifeless, sometimes his spirits hardly soared at all when he saw the great mountain. |
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In fact, multiple studies have shown that people think the sadder a tragedy is, the better a movie it is. |
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With the Western penchant for turning any tragedy into a tourist attraction, today, the Historical Shipwreck Trail takes you past as many as 25 known wrecks. |
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Later still, in Rome, sketches of low life performed by several actors with masks and scenic effects became so popular that they drove both tragedy and comedy from the stage. |
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As eight of her novels are republished, we salute a doyenne of literary fiction whose work juxtaposes tragedy and comedy. |
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Just about any newsworthy tragedy is likely to be used as a theme to promote scareware portals these days, one of the easiest mechanisms for cybercrooks to make money. |
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The Explosion at the Wig Factory was about as big of a hoot as you can comfortably call a tragedy like an explosion. |
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Making the disorienting shift from fiction to the news, I was too upset at the tragedy for any kind of rage. |
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The representatives of tragedy and comedy chosen are not Greek but Roman. |
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To transcend the bounds of tragedy is credit to both writer and performer. |
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Such malapropos wise cracks are driven home with a relentlessly upbeat soundtrack which serenades scenes of human tragedy with bouncy, Disneyesque melodies. |
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This may not be French classical tragedy as we normally understand it. |
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Yesterday, Prime Minister David Cameron called the Hillsborough tragedy and its coverage a double injustice. |
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People should also talk to their families about their wishes to be an organ donor so that there is no confusion or hesitation should a tragedy strike. |
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The person or parties responsible for this terrible tragedy have yet to come forward which leads officials here to wonder who the next target is, if there is one. |
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The biggest tragedy here is that the accident could have easily been prevented. |
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The Greek-style neoclassicism of the building represents the heroic valour of the New Zealand soldier and emphasises the classical tragedy of battles such as at Gallipoli. |
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John's life has been cloaked in the shadow of this tragedy ever since and he resolves to save his father and alter the course of his own personal history. |
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The situation ended in tragedy when the gunman shot and killed two students. |
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What emerges most of all from this thoroughly satisfying book, however, is the tragedy of our own ignorance about early American responses to the landscape. |
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Indeed, two of them were not even involved in the demonstrations that resulted in the tragedy but were peacefully walking across campus when they were gunned down. |
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Three men who met as students had been singing university rag songs at the end of a day-long reunion when tragedy struck on a country lane, an inquest heard yesterday. |
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As war clouds gather in the hellish heat of summer, and the Kashmir tragedy continues to unfold, it is worth pondering the state of affairs we find ourselves in. |
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In confessions of an Ivy League Frat Boy, the self-induced, self-absorbed Greek tragedy of Andrew Lohse. |
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He added that seeing people come to terms with tragedy and catastrophe had played a profound role on his spiritual beliefs and influenced his faith. |
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An attempt at tragedy in the book's last quarter all but tips the book into oblivion with the revelation of a family secret so silly that Sunset Beach would reject it. |
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The tragedy of 16 Sherpas killed was the biggest single loss of life in the history of climbing Everest. |
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It's as if we wait for another rail tragedy to act as confirmation of our worst fears, and when one happens we rewrite history to present it as a disaster in the making. |
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The tragedy which was visited upon Jim Watt was not of his own making. |
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I am as always slightly awed by the sheer tragedy and futility of it all. |
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Two hovercraft, two rescue helicopters and three lifeboats rushed to the scene fearing a repeat of the tragedy which earlier last year claimed the lives of 21 people. |
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As the tragedy unfolded, the eyewitness tried to find a lifebuoy. |
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The mystical spin on real-life political tragedy may have worked in the original novel, but here, defying tyrants while being away with the fairies just doesn't work. |
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In an instant the case pitched from tragedy to travesty to absurdist spectacle, the judgments coming far faster than the facts. |
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Liberal Larry is offering sage advice regarding the tragedy in London. |
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Above any other area in the county the people of Ballon have faced tragedy after tragedy as the carnage on their local roads spirals to epidemic proportions. |
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Some people at Foggy Bottom made some decisions that ended up letting a tragedy happen. |
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Sometimes in the midst of a tragedy like the Newton massacre, we witness incredible acts of valor, tenderness, grace, and decency. |
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Last Thursday, following a week of media frenzy, the Kremlin's response to the Beslan tragedy reached the lower chamber of Parliament, the state Duma. |
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And notwithstanding the emerging tragedy in Syria, the graver regional threat remains Iran and its nuclear ambitions. |
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It's the second tragedy to stun the people of Kilkenny this week. |
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In Vento di Terra, a film by Italian director Vincenzo Marra, tragedy after tragedy is heaped upon Vincenzo, a Neapolitan teenager who is the central character. |
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It is there that you get the fullest sense of majesty and tragedy of this city transformed. |
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However, the tragedy surrounding this case could extend far beyond unfortunate Jahi and her grief-stricken family. |
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Lawrence Osborne on the tragedy and surreal beauty of the political battle between the opposing yellows and Reds. |
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Identifying the perpetrators of this appalling tragedy is a criminal matter, not a technical one. |
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Lina never came to terms with the tragedy of her life, nor did the country that was its stage for many years. |
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While the tragedy was an accident, it was an accident waiting to happen. |
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Meanwhile, news of the tragedy was relayed to pupils during morning assembly today at Bitterne Park School where the teenager had been a pupil since last year. |
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The drivers were unaware of this tragedy as they circulated behind the safety car for the next 12 laps, while debris was removed from the track surface. |
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Yes, publicizing tragedy gets clicks, gets ad revenue, gets notoriety, and can be done for all the wrong reasons. |
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Because if the takeaway from the Newtown tragedy is that we fear school, the gunman wins and our children lose. |
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The added tragedy of losing a son had been hard enough to bear without the wrenching revelations of recent days. |
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However, for the 100,000 or so Aborigines who are living mostly in remote or extremely remote communities, the story is one of unrelieved tragedy and horror. |
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One of the saddest and most galling aspects of this foot and mouth tragedy has been the relentless, silent, unpublicised invasion of our shop shelves by imported meat. |
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To help keep the world interested, the whole thing could be filmed for an exciting high-concept reality TV show celebrating human tragedy in grand fashion. |
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It's a human tragedy that could leave only the hardest heart unmoved. |
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I witnessed that tragedy a few blocks from where it occurred, standing motionless at 8th Street and 6th avenue in lower Manhattan. |
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News of her pregnancy unites them again after the marriage seemed to be over, but a later tragedy shatters his confidence, and his world begins to unravel. |
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For one, the city that doesn't sleep has awoken even more, recovering in the face of tragedy with a determination and moxie that only New Yorkers can muster. |
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The tragedy happened just after midnight and was witnessed by a horrified police officer who had been passing the slip road to the motorway in a patrol car. |
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Then presidential politicking transformed the Benghazi tragedy into an inside-the-Beltway circus. |
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The tragedy in West Virginia reminds us that some careers are deadlier than others. |
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Why must she be labeled a liar, or a conspirator, the one to answer for the terrible tragedy in Libya? |
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Obie's was once a tale of redemption and rescue, of overindulgent tragedy to biggest-loser triumph. |
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Her inner strength was tested early in her marriage when tragedy struck. |
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It's a tragedy regardless of how it happened and people like you who lecture after an accident are the lowest form of weak willed spineless jellyfish. |
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I understood that comprehensive education was designed to call a halt to the tragedy of those left behind when the grammar school kids upped and offed. |
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Cecil and Charlotte now live together in Halifax, but the undischarged resentment and sorrow of a recent tragedy have isolated them from one another. |
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Either way, part of the tragedy and poignancy of polio is its preferential spread to babies and toddlers. |
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You want to portray a tragedy with pretty girls on tippy-toes? |
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A direct result of this tragedy was the Pendleton Act in 1883, which sought to make entry into the service dependent on merit rather than on reward. |
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When twelve people are killed by violence, whoever they are, for whatever reason, that is a tragedy and a waste. |
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He gives a blow-by-blow account of a mission that ends in tragedy for some of the soldiers but in triumph for Karzai. |
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It was a ghastly tragedy that rattled a nation and became a byword for anti-Semitism in France. |
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The words that the rest of us have offered on the tragedy will be outlasted by the silent message of hope and dignity that such men and women have sent around the world. |
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In between Skyping one such doctor in Kuala Lumpur, Boss spoke with The Daily Beast about the most recent tragedy in this domain. |
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The tragedy of Thomas Smith is yet another statistic to underline the need for something to be done to protect young drivers and other road users from the temptation to speed. |
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In short, as Clarke presents it, the tragedy of November 22 was even greater than we have thought. |
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Travis openly wonders why, of all her sisters, she survived the seeming tragedy of being shut out of show business while still in the bloom of youth. |
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The tragedy America faced in that valley will always overshadow any other thoughts we have about the place. |
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Julie's mum, Linda Norfolk, said the tragedy had left the family broken-hearted and told how her daughter battled for years against the stigma of the condition. |
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Even at the remove of twenty years many of the key players in the dreadful tragedy could still not accept that they had made colossal mistakes on the night. |
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Any ad invoking that tragedy would have to be exquisitely sensitive and carefully crafted. |
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And only hours after yesterday's tragedy in Lincolnshire, firefighters had to strap a car to a fire engine to stop it from falling onto the East Coast mainline. |
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I hated that the town response to tragedy and suffering was to suffocate the afflicted family with attention. |
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The tragedy was compounded for mrs Estoya when she learned that her 21-year-old daughter, Victoria, had died as well. |
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As the Boston tragedy continues to unfurl, things will likely continue to get worse before finally taking a turn for the better. |
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It would indeed be a tragedy if Europe splinters apart as it did in the interwar period. |
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For all of the messy tragedy inherent in a midlife crisis, for men anyway, there used to be something fun about them. |
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At the centre of the Oedipus tragedy is man's struggle to understand the forces of nature that determine the course of events in the world in which he lives. |
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For now, even the tragedy that left many local people in shock and heartbroken has not brought on a lull in the fighting. |
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It's the lightness of touch that I'll miss, the sureness with which a Frasier script could go from drawing-room comedy to sheer farce to tragedy without missing a beat. |
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The human tragedy of the natural disaster in this particular part of Italy is twofold. |
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Although our news media are very remiss in educating the public on the great economic tragedy now unfolding, they do unwittingly disclose some frightening facts. |
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Part of this whole tragedy was his fault if not all of it and the only way to redemption was to save the innocent life of one boy even at the cost of his own. |
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Now the appalling tragedy in the southern states is being repellently exploited to serve that very same scientifically unsound preconceived agenda. |
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Coming home represents an enduring challenge for veterans, but dysfunction and tragedy are not their only fate. |
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She is always being asked how she came to write a latter-day Greek tragedy with such an insight into gang culture, social warfare and male aspirations. |
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Every chapter is headed with a brief quote from a Jacobean revenge tragedy by the likes of Webster, Kyd, or Jonson. |
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The real tragedy was that only a miserly 1,500 or so turned out to watch the game, continuing recent downward trends here on a damp and blustery afternoon. |
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Possibly because of this tragedy rightly overshadowing all other aspects, little has been heard of the monetary cost of this misbegotten adventure. |
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The killing of Trayvon Martin is a terrifying tragedy that has inflicted a loss that is irrevocable. |
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Their tragedy was bleakly mirrored by that of the Maya, who systematically exhausted their resource base, leading to death from starvation and thirst. |
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As happy as I am for George Zimmerman, I'm thrilled that this jury kept this tragedy from becoming a travesty. |
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One of the defense attorneys for Zimmerman said he was glad the outcome did not turn a tragedy into travesty. |
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And if this was done as it should be in our country, maybe there would not be tragedies like the tragedy in Moscow today. |
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So we won't even talk about the tragedy that transpired last night. |
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When changing from the lighter Handel subjects to the deep tragedy of Haydn, immediately his mannerism changed and so did the mood of the audience. |
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With each new tragedy that unfolds comes grief and heartache, but also an opportunity to educate. |
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The Red Arrows aerobatic team had to take emergency action to avoid a tragedy when a microlight aircraft strayed into its airspace at an Airshow, the RAF revealed today. |
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Messud never made that judgment, and the tragedy rhymes with the struggles of the chattering class in an attentive, fresh way. |
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The tragedy happened at La Serena, Spain's largest reservoir, in Capilla, in the western province of Badajoz on Saturday night. |
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The tragedy of life is, it must be premature, inconclusive and inconcludable, in order to be life. |
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Behn's novels show the influence of tragedy and her experiences as a dramatist. |
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Human disease moves from tragedy to cash cow, often within days. |
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Nine months later, Bowman turned this tragedy into a triumph when he became the first double amputee to re-enlist in the United States Army. |
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A TEENAGER has plunged to her death in a second bungee jumping tragedy in Spain in just three weeks. |
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This tragedy serves as a stark reminder of the dangers of drunk driving. |
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Her death was avenged on Creone by Theseus, and her name has been immortalized in a tragedy by Sophocles. |
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Prince Hamlet is the eponymous protagonist of the Shakespearian tragedy Hamlet. |
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A futurefic following Mulder and Scully over twenty years as they deal with a personal tragedy and the aftermath it leaves. |
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Rather, emancipation was a historical tragedy and the end of Reconstruction was a clear sign of God's favor. |
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Macbeth's generally accepted indebtedness to medieval tragedy is often seen as significant in the play's treatment of moral order. |
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Instead of trying to keep the failing school going, Johnson began to write his first major work, the historical tragedy Irene. |
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The Indian Queen was adapted from a tragedy by Dryden and Sir Robert Howard. |
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Synge's 1902 play of the same name, depicting family tragedy in an Irish fishing village. |
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There was no such tragedy in Montreal in 1976, but bad planning and fraud led to the Games' cost far exceeding the budget. |
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After the Watson tragedy Eubank never again showed any desire to knock opponents out, preferring to retain his title through points victories. |
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Niven returned to Hollywood, and encountered tragedy when his first wife died after falling down in an accident at a party. |
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As so often in Margaret's life, tragedy and unhappiness were closely pursued by intrigue and farce. |
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In 1972, Rangers emerged from the tragedy of the previous year to finally achieve success on the European stage. |
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A tragedy struck the club on 20 January 1969 when players Roy Evans and Brian Purcell were killed in a car crash on the way to a game. |
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This tragedy led some commentators to suggest that the cockle beds should be closed until improved safety measures could be introduced. |
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The twins Atreus and Thyestes with their descendants played the leading role in the tragedy of the devolution of power in Mycenae. |
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This tragedy is recounted in the Skeletons on the Zahara, by Dean King, which is set in this region of the African coast. |
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Four in five of the crew on board the vessel were Sotonians, with about a third of those who perished in the tragedy hailing from the city. |
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This was inaccurate on long voyages out of sight of land and these voyages sometimes ended in tragedy as a result. |
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This personal tragedy deeply hurt Ivan and is thought to have affected his personality, if not his mental health. |
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One of these is the fact that tragedy characters were nearly always mythical characters. |
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However, Murray clarifies that strict constancy is not always the rule in Greek tragedy characters. |
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Several other aspects of the character element in ancient Greek tragedy are worth noting. |
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Murray maintains that Aristotle did not mean that complicated plot should hold the highest place in a tragedy play. |
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At times of national or personal tragedy or crisis, PMQs have been temporarily suspended. |
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