Sentence examples for widespread mourning from inspiring English sources

In March Lee Kuan Yew died at the age of 91, and his passing elicited widespread mourning in the country.

But it was on the campus where the murders' aftermath was most visible, in widespread mourning and speculation and added security.

So while the death of Pope John Paul II has brought widespread mourning, there has also been pressure on the French republic not to honor him officially.

But there was a bigger cloud hanging over the Highlands: widespread mourning over the loss of the man who had represented them at Westminster for more than three decades.

Three days later, on April 10, en route to another memorial ceremony, a plane carrying Kaczyński crashed near Smolensk, near the Katyn site, killing the president, his wife, the army chief of staff, the head of the national security bureau, the president of the national bank, and a number of Polish government officials and evoking widespread mourning in Poland.

After news of Payá's death was broken online by the blogger Yoani Sanchez and confirmed by Christian groups and the government, it prompted widespread mourning for an activist who was behind several of the most influential democracy initiatives of the past two decades.

The point was made, quite accurately, that widespread American mourning for the Pope confirmed that the bad old days of this society's fierce and intolerant anti-Catholicism were well and truly over.

Perhaps though, on the other hand, we are witnessing something else about religion in the widespread and heartfelt mourning and remembrances, something about the changing contours of religious cultures and the messy mixing up, and mashing up, of the sacred and the secular.

Twelve-year-old Gana's very public mourning for her last child gained widespread attention last year after the baby gorilla died of a severe intestinal infection at three months.

Maher, host of HBO's "Real Time," faced widespread criticism Saturday for a blog post in which he mocked those mourning Lee who "pretended" that comic books are "sophisticated literature".

Several weeks into its mourning, the Nahassi's family's reaction to the accident captures the widespread ambivalence in Libya about how to loosen weapons from the public's not-always-responsible grip.