"But the hero worship of Reggie Jackson based on him hitting a few timely home runs, and the abuse heaped upon Alex [ Rodriguez based on I-don't-know-what is a very unfortunate phenomenon".
I guess it's a regular but unfortunate phenomenon on the minefield that is graduate school: One of my co-workers will be leaving my group and the department soon.
The Huffington Post's Zena Blay referred to it as "peak white feminism," an unfortunate phenomenon of using issues of gender to erase systemic racial discrimination.
Knock on wood, but if everything bears out as expected next month, it would prevent this becoming the third consecutive derby without any nominees of color in the acting categories, an unfortunate phenomenon that sparked the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite.
The analysis of every death by the Swedish Maternal Mortality Group provides a deeper understanding of this unfortunate phenomenon and extracts vital information by scrutinizing the chain of events leading to a maternal death.
I apply both these unfortunate social phenomena to those who oppose war, corporate crime, and other injustices, but take no personal action to stop them.
Climate change is not the product of unfortunate meteorological phenomena; it is the result of burning massive quantities of carbon-based fuels and spewing the resulting gaseous wastes into the atmosphere.
This is unfortunate, for the nonassociative phenomenon of sensitization is probably fairly widespread, and it provides a simple means of acquiring adaptive behaviour.
We'll see as the details emerge, but this might be an unfortunate holdover from that phenomenon".
Marketing pushes will likely come after the next Newtown or Aurora, which, depending on your level of cynicism, is either an unfortunate inevitability or a phenomenon that could be prevented by new gun laws, like the legislation Barron wants passed.
