Sentence examples for if this tragedy from inspiring English sources

If this tragedy does not produce universal gun control, what can and what will?

If this tragedy prompts reflection and debate, as it should, let's make sure it's worthy of those we have lost.

"If this tragedy prompts reflection and debate, as it should, let's make sure it's worthy of those we have lost," Mr. Obama said.

But there is something profoundly wrong with the way we measure economic well-being if this tragedy leads to the conclusion that some economic good was achieved.

Later a spokesman said: "We cannot confirm if this tragedy took place because of our answer to the terrorists who targeted us in this area, or from Hamas fire".

Rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame, let's use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our instincts for empathy and remind ourselves of all the ways that our hopes and dreams are bound together … If this tragedy prompts reflection and debate – as it should – let's make sure it's worthy of those we have lost.

An unanswered question in this tragedy is if the employer could have lawfully fired the employee under the employment-at-will doctrine.

But if anything this tragedy forces us to admit that when it comes to what constitutes freedom of expression, most of us are not even close to being on the same page.

This tragedy, if properly understood, could engender good sense in South Asia.

When asked later about the role that poetry had played in Kiev's Independence Square — protesters waved portraits of the nineteenth-century poet Taras Shevchenko Van Rompuyuy said, "I wouldn't be surprised if this struggle and this tragedy had not inspired people there".

Think about how many children were abused by Catholic priests, how many families were destroyed, and how many more could have avoided this tragedy if only our church was an open, modern, accountable institution with a more diverse leadership.