Sentence examples for ethical tragedy from inspiring English sources

This is an ethical tragedy, particularly because collateral damage may now be a more serious humanitarian issue than war crimes in some conflict zones.

After centuries of increasingly mechanized hunting, several whale species were nearly extinct, and the American public began to view killing cetaceans for any reason as both an ecological and an ethical tragedy.

But many urologists believe screening saves lives, and the American Urological Association recommends that men consider starting it at age 55. "Ethical tragedies are difficult to recognize in the present," Dr. Aronowitz wrote.

The case of Terri Schiavo has been an ethical and political tragedy.

This was the beginning of years of legal machinations in which the ethical implications of the tragedy and its affect on Bhopal's people were largely ignored.

It is a tragedy and an ethical outrage that help-seeking individuals receive mostly ineffective treatment when effective treatment should be readily available.

Saying they felt a "deep sense of ethical responsibility for a past tragedy," Mitsubishi executives presented the apology privately then publicly to Murphy, of Santa Maria, California, at the Museum of Tolerance at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.

But those same traits also make newspapering a scene of ethical drama, dark intrigue and even tragedy.

Confronting a protagonist with "a great ethical contaminant" is -- talk about "tragedy" -- a theme and a method that goes back to the Greeks, if not to the earliest legends.

Indigenous has pumped over $20 million into the artisan and organic supply chain and is promoting wide use of Fair Trace, but as the recent tragedy in Bangladesh illustrates, ethical fashion is still a long way off.

With this comes a certain fraught ethical dilemma: should one be using real tragedy for the purposes of entertainment?