Syria will remain an arena of wagering and gathering bargaining chips for all players, great and small, for a period of time that will not be short, and in which will increase the tragedy of the Syrian people, both those internally displaced and those who have migrated to neighboring countries, which are in turn not yet fully out of danger.
So the car goes faster and faster with a decreasing rate of efficiency and an increasing probability of tragedy.
I have become more and more involved with the AIDS issue because of the tragedy and increasing seriousness of the epidemic.
Over the previous year, Fewsnet and FSNAU flagged the impending tragedy with increasing urgency, producing more than 70 early warning bulletins and undertaking a similar number of briefings with agencies and donor governments.
A tragedy of increasing proportions, financially and morally.
The clinical failure of antimicrobial drugs that were previously effective in controlling infectious disease is a tragedy of increasing magnitude that gravely affects human health.
We live amidst rapid changes, increasing fears and devastating tragedies.
Shifts away from both sexism and agism are evident throughout Western culture as older women come into their power later than men and also live longer (despite the tragedies of increasing violent crimes against women in many developing and radical Muslim cultures).
In some cases, that has presented special problems because the World Trade Center tragedy increased the risk of extending and deepening stock-market declines.
Nina's obsession with being perfect -- the perfect ballerina, the perfect daughter, the perfect Swan -- lead her down an increasingly dark path in which her sanity is threatened and the drums of tragedy thunder with increasing dread.
We need to figure out how to avoid future tragedies, given the increasing use of driverless cars.
