Sentence examples for two tragic events from inspiring English sources

At the private school my kids have attended for the last five years, the principal has always mentioned two tragic events that had occurred on Sept. 1.

That story, of course, is part of a larger story the narrator is telling us about a tragic event — well, two tragic events — that happened at his college: one about a freshman who hanged herself, and the other involving his friend (and rival for the affections of a classmate) Will, who has been playing a dangerous game of chicken with another student.

Nevertheless, support for gun control rebounded to nearly 60percentt, as these two tragic events were the only major spree shootings over the ten-year period.

These two tragic events represent a tie for impact: the lost Malaysia Airlines flight 370 and the terrorist attacks by Xinjiang separatists on a train station in Kunming.

This traumatic experience has served to bind Palestinians together in the same way that the Jews coalesced following the Holocaust, the two tragic events, however, unparalleled in scope by any stretch of the imagination.

Being in Seattle on this October rainy day was bookmarked by two tragic events, one being the school shooting in Marysville, Washington a few days ago and the other by the news of a man who killed his daughter and granddaughter the night before this training.

The mayor, in an interview, described the two episodes as "tragic events," but said they did not signal any change in fortunes for the area.

"We expect that the net result of two dichotomic forces – tragic events in Tunisia favouring inbound tourism to Greece and political instability in the country having a negative impact on inbound tourism – will be the country still recording a growth in inbound arrivals in 2015 but at a more modest 3% rate compared to 23% in 2014".

It's been over two months since the tragic events in Iguala, Guerrero, where local police clashed with protestors leaving six dead and 43 students missing.

Two days before the tragic events unfolded in Srebrenica, I offered the Bosnian prime minister assistance in organizing the urgent evacuation of the Muslim population from Srebrenica.

The book also relates tragic events: one of Syvia's friends disappears, and another is killed and burned in an extermination camp.