Sentence examples for lethal tragedy from inspiring English sources

Civilian casualties in Afghanistan are not only a lethal tragedy but also a strategic mistake.

The last 12 months had already seen the single most lethal tragedy on Everest – in which 16 local staff guiding fee-paying climbers lost their lives – and a freak storm which killed scores of trekkers.

Yet despite the fact that we know there's no progressive safety concern, we still give definitively more attention to flight deaths than other more common and lethal tragedies.

A teen-ager's rather routine funk became a senseless tragedy because a lethal device was at hand.

It suggests that the lethal fact of a human tragedy, set against the backcloth of specific scepticism over Iraq policy, and a more general disbelief in the government's truthfulness, has combined to make the government more isolated from public opinion than at any stage in its life.

While in the cities people tried to call relatives, escape or listen to news, another tragedy was taking place: lethal tsunamis in the Chilean coast.

One book focuses on the connections between firearms and violence, while the other focuses on lethal school violence such as the Columbine tragedy.

It seems an almost Kafkaesque piece of tragedy, mixing bureaucracy and politics in a combination that could soon prove lethal.