Sentence examples for local tragedy from inspiring English sources

And now you've got this, a local tragedy and a national catastrophe".

They were talking about the Attrells, "They are our local tragedy," one of them said.

As he knows well, that's often the only tone in which local tragedy can be made bearable.

As a lifelong Democrat in Pima County, Arizona, I was heartened and touched by Senator John McCain's and Speaker John A. Boehner's responses to our local tragedy.

She predicted in an interview with the Guardian that Balls's actions would lead to a "local tragedy and a national catastrophe" for child protection.

Few remember how Lilly and the other women managed to transform a local tragedy into a national event and so save their men.

What have traditionally been local tragedies are now beginning to get national exposure.

And while rising asthma and lung cancer rates are local tragedies and impose significant health care costs -- something we have learned all to well in my home state of California -- behind these trends in Vietnam and China is a more ominous threat to global commerce.

And it's a problem reflected in California laws that fail to account for the local Bay Area tragedies caused by distracted driving.

So Lululemon does two years of marketing research in the rust-belt city of Buffalo, and somehow comes up with the idea that evoking two local sports tragedies totally out of context in a fancy floor-mosaic in their new store would express solidarity with the hoi polloi.

In local news, a tragedy dominated the headlines: the Queensboro Bridge had collapsed under the weight of 10,000 runners in the "Rheingold Marathon".