Sentence examples for tragic indictment from inspiring English sources

"People dying in their dozens – whether crammed into a truck or a ship – en route to seek safety or better lives is a tragic indictment of Europe's failures to provide alternative routes," he said.

The sight of her postal vote sitting on the side, the vote she no longer intended to send, felt like a tragic indictment of a very alienating political culture.

"It is a tragic indictment of the system that such a frail and vulnerable man should have spent his final days in prison-like conditions of an immigration removal centre," said Nigel Newcomen, the prisons and probation ombudsman (PPO), in his report.

(Indeed it's desperately disappointing that the US administration has failed to make good its promise to close Guantánamo by January 2010. Aamer is one of about 170 men still held in Guantánamo's legal black hole – a tragic indictment of President Obama's failure to clear up the mess left by the Bush administration).

"Fear of Insurance Trouble Leads Many to Shun or Hide DNA Tests" ("The DNA Age" series, front page, Feb. 24) is a tragic indictment of our current private "health" insurance system, which inhibits Americans from using advances in medical science that can predict their risks for many potentially treatable illnesses because they fear they will lose their ability to obtain medical insurance.

"Rather than responding to homeless persons as affronts to the senses and to their neighborhoods, citizens and local authorities should see in their presence a tragic indictment of community and government policies," Alston said during a news conference in Washington, D.C., on Friday. .

"These disclosures do not affect the grand jury's indictment of these defendants for the tragic deaths of Firefighters Beddia and Graffagnino and we will continue to vigorously prosecute this action".

What followed was a profane indictment, perfectly balanced between comic frustration and tragic anger.

Responding to the grand jury's refusal to indict the officers involved, Donovan noted that Garner's death was "tragic," and that there was "no reasonable cause to vote an indictment".

The deaths of four Americans — including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens — in Benghazi, Libya, in September 2012 was a tragic (though sadly not unprecedented) loss of life as well as an indictment of security measures at the U.S. mission there.

Alex Gibney's documentary of this descent, Taxi to the Dark Side, is a well balanced and researched indictment of the failure of the Bush administration's "command responsibility" and its tragic consequences "on the ground".