Sentence examples for mass tragedy from inspiring English sources

About 48 hours after the mass tragedy, between 20 and 30 of the victims had yet to be identified.

Open the door to litigation over fairness after a mass tragedy, and no one will ever be satisfied.

The events last month were challenging even to experienced psychiatrists because, as volunteers on the front lines of a mass tragedy, they had to deal with strangers, not familiar longtime patients.

Yet the Web news site of The People's Daily, flagship of the Communist Party, weighed in today with an eyewitness report of mass tragedy, in effect calling Guangxi officials liars.

I fantasized that this mass tragedy would cause all the people over 30 to regret the terrible way that they had ignored the wise advice that the younger generation had been offering on how to run the world.

"With adults, we have an idea of what the world is like, and that world includes bad things, your car getting stolen, sexual assaults, muggings," said Robin Fudge Finegan, a consultant who has worked with victims of mass tragedy, including those at Columbine and at the Oklahoma City bombing five years ago.

But we miss a real opportunity by focusing exclusively on violence through the lens these mass tragedies create.

The plaintiffs' lawyer argued that the law was moving toward encouraging people to try to prevent mass tragedies.

Many people took to Facebook and Twitter to express their grief, a sign of the increasing importance of social media during mass tragedies.

It has become such a repeated American phenomenon that a group of families and survivors of earlier mass tragedies is proposing creation of a National Compassion Fund.

I remain firmly convinced we can make tremendous legislative strides in preventing mass tragedies involving someone with a serious mental illness.