The tragedy had been precipitated by a radical Jewish group, the Temple Mount Faithful, which had long been advocating a complete Israeli takeover of the holy site.
While the resorts on the Red Sea are protected by a ring of steel, some travellers will doubtless see this tragedy – and the unprecendented UK security operation it has precipitated – as another reason not to go to Egypt.
He precipitates a tragedy not through malevolence but by inattention.
And he is desperately poor, which is partly what precipitates the tragedy by driving his common-law wife Marie into the arms of the drum major.
Stanley Townsend as Theseus, the false news of whose death precipitates the tragedy, is a figure of burly power who might plausibly have slayed the Minotaur and bedded legions of women.
At its most grim, it is the story of how a remarkably small group of combatants -- probably just a few thousand soldiers, rebels and so-called janjaweed combined, mostly armed with little more than what might be found in a National Guard armory -- was able to precipitate a tragedy that has pushed more than a million people to the edge of extinction.
When, in 2010, Johansson won a Tony for her Broadway début — as Catherine, the object of impacted lust who precipitates the tragedy in Arthur Miller's 1955 play, "A View from the Bridge" — you could have knocked me over with an Oscar.
In each case, it's now known, the arrival of humans precipitated a wave of extinctions; it's just that, as Russell points out, these "tragedies" were not recorded by the people who produced them.
Not only was it an unprecedented tragedy in the clothing industry — the collapse has also been called the deadliest accidental structural failure in modern history, precipitated by weak construction materials, lack of proper building permits and the improper use of the office building as a factory.
