Sentence examples for experiencing tragedy from inspiring English sources

Some Salvadorans, like Israel Meléndez, 46, were experiencing tragedy for the second time in a month.

As she was, before 9/11, I remain convinced of the power of everyday ordinary citizens, especially when imbued with passion and the moral authority that comes from experiencing tragedy and fighting to prevent it from happening again.

Antoine Fuqua's film, featuring Jake Gyllenhaal as a boxing champion who must fight his way back to the top after experiencing tragedy, also stars Rachel McAdams, Forest Whitaker and Naomie Harris.

This is then the challenge for European politicians: true statesmanship is finding the courage and having the intelligence to be wise without experiencing tragedy -- to see the big picture, to acknowledge the right of the other side, to craft space for compromise.

Gilman had experienced tragedy before: his father had walked out on the family when he was a boy, and his mother later committed suicide.

Her family has experienced tragedy, and has become quite dysfunctional, and it is clear that Candice isn't like other normal children.

Born into a professional, bourgeois family, the youngest of four brothers, he experienced tragedy early in his life when his mother died when he was eight.

Though they have experienced tragedy — their bassist, Gerard Smith, died of lung cancer, in 2011 — they have sustained an enjoyably firm sense of self, and have never sounded desperate or trendy.

With the Kennedy clan again in the forefront of people's minds, those from big families said they thought of their own parents and siblings over the years when the Kennedys experienced tragedy.

Although the judge accepted Shuttleworth had experienced tragedy in losing her mother and grandmother following a "troubling" upbringing, he said she had shown a cruel and vicious streak towards Keanu.

I fight for the men who experience tragedy, who feel inferior daily.