Sentence examples for catastrophic tragedy from inspiring English sources

I wanted to honor the triumph of the human spirit over catastrophic tragedy".

The only thing I or anyone could possibly offer another in the midst of life-ruining, catastrophic tragedy was presence, love, and tears.

In an interdependent world confronted with serious ecological constraints, zero-sum competition to become the winningest fossil fuel "superpower" means, to borrow Garrett Hardin's famous phraseology, a catastrophic tragedy of the commons and the ruin of all.

"Haiti, the most impoverished country in the Americas, has suffered a catastrophic tragedy," said Veneman.

"Haiti, the most impoverished country in the Americas, has suffered a catastrophic tragedy," said Veneman.  "Many lives have been lost and homes, schools, hospitals and businesses were destroyed.

"Drastic and immediate actions are required to counter the imminent threat from [Isis], dealt in the fight is leading to more catastrophic human tragedies.

IT IS a tragedy of catastrophic proportions.

There were the catastrophic Tianjin explosions – a tragedy some described as a Chinese Katrina – which devastated lives and exposed deep-rooted problems of government corruption and incompetence.

When fans try to shame veterans like Toney and Mosley into retirement, they often speak the language of concern: they don't want to see a boxer get injured or worse; they don't want to hear people saying, after a catastrophic fight, that the tragedy was predictable.

@CreaThestoryect.

"Though it occurred thousands of miles away from our home arenas, this tragedy represents a catastrophic loss to the hockey world," Gary Bettman, the commissioner of the N.H.L., said in a statement from New York.