Sentence examples for a significant tragedy from inspiring English sources

David Gibson, chief officer and company secretary of the Mountaineering Council of Scotland, said: "This was a significant tragedy.

"This is a significant tragedy, and our heartfelt condolences go out to the whole family," Mr. Cunningham said.

I believe that it also remains a significant tragedy that there are still four very learned people sitting on our Supreme Court who continue to try to rationalize such barbarity.

"The paparazzi played a significant part in the tragedy and they should be punished," according the father's statement.

The compressed power of Jean Racine's mythic tragedy – a significant influence on Beckett's sense of psychic space – unfolded in meditative quarter-light at the coliseum's centre.

Though it took a grave tragedy, a significant and necessary change to our ideological operating system appears to have finally been made.

But it turns out that solutions exist to preventing a significant percentage of the tragedies that cause all of this suffering and handwringing.

It seems increasingly likely that homophobia and our cultural inability to confront sexual abuse, let alone talk about it, played a significant a role in this tragedy, too, and I hope that Lindsey and his peers are up to the challenge of elucidating that.

The reported death of Kekua and the Notre Dame linebacker's perseverance during the supposed tragedy was a significant story line throughout the college football season.

The announcement was further evidence of a decline in violence since a significant troop increase last year, but the tragedy of one family in Kirkuk is a reminder of just how dangerous life in Iraq continues to be.

But unlike the other events, it does not appear that the shuttle tragedy should have a significant impact on consumer confidence or on financial markets, several analysts said yesterday.