Duncan Brown, head of road safety at Surrey Police, said: "Police officers are only too aware of the tragedies that follow lapses in concentration.
So even though this week was calm by American mass shooting standards, we can and should continue to be aware of these tragedies and the perversity of a gun culture gone off the rails even as we pay due respect to European suffering.
I am, I repeat, very aware of the tragedies suffered by some of our fellow citizens and I am determined to make great efforts to help them.
It's merely a crutch, a thing we say to show that a) we're aware of a tragedy, and b) we're sorry for whoever died in said tragedy.
MOSCOW — Here is the text of the statement made on Tuesday by the president of Russia, Dmitri A. Medvedev, recognizing the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia from the Republic of Georgia, in an English translation provided by the Kremlin press service: You are no doubt well aware of the tragedy of South Ossetia.
But until this Africa Cup of Nations, few people in this country will have been aware of the tragedy that struck the Zambian football team in 1993 when, after taking off from Libreville in Gabon, a military plane carrying most of the squad crashed into the Atlantic Ocean.
It's hard not to be queasily aware of the tragedy's parallels to the début episode of the Scandinavian TV series "The Bridge," in which a woman's dismembered body is planted strategically on the mid-point of the sea bridge that connects Denmark and Sweden.
I don't know if you are aware of this, but tragedy at the St . Patricks Day parade.
In 1986 , 1989 1992 and 1995 the leaders of the profession, nationally and locally in Bristol, along with the Department of Health, were aware of the appalling tragedy that was occurring in Bristol but lacked the leadership and courage to prevent the further loss of innocent lives".
