'potential tragedy' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used in a sentence to describe a situation or event that has the potential to result in tragedy or disaster. Example: The lack of safety measures on the construction site was a potential tragedy waiting to happen.
"This is a potential tragedy for individual students".
Anyone who senses a potential tragedy in the making should pitch in to head it off.
That turns a matter of poor internal systems into a potential tragedy.
The county fair -- so American, so farmlike -- is in itself a seething mass of potential tragedy.
Through Bermann, Schnitzler deliberately undercuts moments of potential tragedy with an edge of cruel wit.
Disclosure of the gun, meant to avert potential tragedy, seems to have invited it.
So, during the last couple weeks, producers, camera operators, correspondents, technicians and even Peter Jennings, on a couple of occasions, have scrambled to cover a host of potential tragedies, from a major bridge collapse to a terrorist attack in New York.
In an essay accompanying the show, Lawrence Schmidt, the museum's executive director, writes, "In post-September 11th America, Sharrow is an artist who gives particularly appropriate and powerful voice to understanding the potential tragedies of the future by helping to remind us of tragedies of the past".
The Environment Minister, Lord De Mauley, has warned of "potential tragedies" for animals caught in the floods.
Yesterday, Samsung confirmed it was investigating the issue, and now it has taken quick action to avoid potential tragedies.
Responding to a suggestion from the independent peer Lady Mar that plans should be drawn up for an evacuation of animals from the worst-hit farms, he said: "We are also facing some potential tragedies with our farms and... with the animals on those farms.
