Make a major tragedy of it.
"Her exceptional judgment in evaluating a new drug for safety for human use has prevented a major tragedy of birth deformities in the United States," said President John F. Kennedy in 1962, as quoted in an obituary in The New York Times, when he presented her the President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service the nation's highest civilian honor at a White House ceremony.
"The situation in Syria is a major tragedy of our time, and Jordan has taken a great responsibility in hosting Syrian refugees," Brodin told CNN Money.
Stille had come to his aunt's apartment to unearth the archive of family documents hidden in the piles of trash, documents that would help him understand the story of how his father's family survived "the major tragedies of 20th-century Europe: the Bolshevik Revolution, the Fascist revolution, the racial laws, World War II".
"I'm hoping that some common sense will spring out of this," Sarnia's mayor, Mike Bradley, told CBC. "We could have had a major tragedy on our hands".
This is the second major tragedy to hit Malaysia Airlines this year after the disappearance of flight MH370 in March.
What is happening now in Europe is surely a major tragedy, a crisis of huge proportions, and we are not towards the end of it, but perhaps just the end of the beginning.
What turned the sinking into a major tragedy in terms of lives lost was the anti-boarding netting that covered the upper decks in the waist (the midsection of the ship) and the sterncastle.
"The Fire and the Forgetting" (June 8), on the General Slocum disaster and its fading from the city's collective memory, was a timely and sensitive reminder of a major tragedy that reshaped the ethnic makeup of the city.
Although Mr. Obama had spoken at the funeral of Senator Edward M. Kennedy and made a post-midnight visit to Dover Air Force Base to salute the returning dead, this was the first time he had served as the nation's comforter at a time of major tragedy.
Despite our complete disapproval of its initial targeting focus against non-ISIS rebels, Russia is squarely and aggressively in the region and also suffered a major tragedy with the destruction of its civilian Metrojet over the Sinai.
