Sentence examples for be able to mourn from inspiring English sources
"People need to be able to mourn … and understand why this happened.
A group of 10 victims represented by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) praised the court's decision, saying: "We will finally be able to mourn our relatives.
Ms. Brown said she was upset that her mother would not be buried where she had lived all her life; nor would Ms. Walker's community be able to mourn her in the Jamaican tradition, with a celebration and feast.
"Maybe my son died of hunger or cried himself to death as he was being kept there for several hours," his father, Rustam Nazarov, said, adding that the family would not be able to mourn properly until they knew what had happened.
I now realize that from the very beginning my life had pointed to our meeting, that my steps were doomed to reach this moment, that I couldn't possibly escape my fate, however ridiculously hard I tried, that nobody, not even those I have loved, will ever be able to mourn my departure.
"The failure to identify the dead means that more people remain unaccounted for, and that the families will not be able to mourn their dead," said Andres Patino, the ICRC's regional forensic adviser.
The Palestinians have never been able to mourn what they call the Nakba, the expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians from their homes in 1948.
Elian, she said, has not yet been able to mourn his mother's death and will need help coming to terms with that loss.
Within you, there are people you have never been able to mourn because you never knew them, people from the distant past; the traces of your animal ancestors still live in your instincts, in your physiology.
I think in a way, I'm lucky to have such a personal digital 'monument' that anyone can relate to, despite most people only being able to mourn in the analog world".
