Sentence examples for widespread grief from inspiring English sources

Members of the Afghan National Security Forces were a visible presence in the Panjwai district yesterday, preventing widespread grief erupting into potentially violent demonstrations.

The killing, captured on cellphone video and broadcast on YouTube, among other places, has once again caused widespread grief over a seemingly intractable problem here.

Cameron announced the extra funding after responding to widespread grief at the picture of Aylan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy found dead on a Turkish beach.

The death two weeks ago of a popular officer killed while defending a military post in Malam Fatori, a town in Borno that has changed hands repeatedly, prompted widespread grief in Nigeria and focused attention on the continuing casualties.

I haven't been able to find widespread grief over the council's fate – partly, I suspect, because its overheads represented 24% of its budget and the last government had already suggested a merger with the British Film Institute, which it funds.

A14 Arson Cited in Cleveland Fire Widespread grief over a house fire that killed a woman and eight children turned to anger with word that the blaze, at first thought to be accidental, was arson.

The prime minister made the announcement after widespread public grief following the publication of Alan Kurdi, a three-year-old Syrian refugee, whose body was photographed washed up on a Turkish beach after his family failed to reach Greece.

These and other findings (like this one about how FB damages romantic relationships) add to the widespread existential grief among the 500 million people who use FB, and many I-told-you-sos from the millions who do not.

It's why, last December, when twenty children were murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, Connecticut, there was a widespread sense of grief, and an intense desire to help.

Yet, along with the widespread and mostly genuine grief, some hope this might be a turning point.

Even in a country inured to violence, grief and anger were widespread.