Sami died in a tragic car accident.

Besides being unjust, this is deeply tragic.

Ethan Zuckerman Obviously, this is a tragic situation, and it actually gets worse.

However, Henry drowned in the Mississippi River when Chris was nine years old.

What was happening in Cyprus since last Monday is a real tragedy.

Each traffic accident is a terrible tragedy for the families and friends of the victims, as well as a loss to society.

Haiti s recent economic history is marked by a remarkable and tragic downslide since the mid 1980 s, exacerbated by sometimes well intentioned but typically disastrously executed US diplomacy.

This is tragic, because Germany should be driving the development of a persuasive vision for Europe s future.

Any breakdown of peace and security, and the conflicts that ensue, have a tragic impact on children.

Tragically, the signals from former Taliban in their southern Afghan stronghold of Kandahar were misread.

Although India has outstanding universities and technological institutes, the primary education system is disastrously poor.

Third, successive governments widened the ethnic divide through catastrophically predatory governance.

This is a tragic mistake, one that results from a misunderstanding of the challenges facing Africa and of America s responsibilities.

I do not take an apocalyptic view of what recently happened tragic though it is for the bereaved families.

The book, written by a team of scientists, predicted disastrous shortages and mass starvation due to population pressure.

That is yet another reason why flouting inherited rules and protocols, in the name of national security, has made, and will continue to make, the terrorist threat catastrophically worse.

Some countries cut ties decisively with the communist past others were less successful, a few failed catastrophically.

The obvious solution to the euro crisis would be a federal solution. But federation has been made less, not more, likely by a crisis that tragically set one proud nation against another.

Barring some catastrophic change, this method of information control can be expected to continue well into the 21st century.

Sarkozy s message is that Chirac and Villepin were right in substance to oppose America s military adventure in Iraq, but that their style was disastrously wrong.

Thoughtful theologians can distinguish among psycho sexual issues in practice, however, fear of a slippery slope to calamity prevails.

Compared to other regions, the impact of the crisis in Latin America, with the exception of Haiti, has (so far) not been dramatic.

We have entered a dangerous period in which a huge and growing population, combined with rapid economic growth, now threatens to have a catastrophic impact on the earth s climate, biodiversity, and fresh water supplies.

In a dramatic day that saw the closure by the Egyptian government of the Al Jazeera TV network's bureau in Cairo, the rapidly changing situation on the ground was largely relayed by social media networks on the Internet, especially on the micro blogging platform Twitter.

I refuse to accept the view that Ukraine is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of communism s legacy that we can never see the bright daybreak of peace and true European unity.

The Bush administration has been disastrously anti scientific. It has been staffed with ideologues who reject or neglect climate science, and who set the US on a dangerous and irresponsible path.

That was a tragic missed opportunity, for a US Soviet agreement, reached in what was still an essentially binary international system, might have had truly global meaning.

But most are experiencing disastrous output contractions amid severe fiscal constraints and nearly collapsed monetary systems, thus undermining two integral components of a successful nation state economic independence and self sustaining growth.

Besides being unjust, this is deeply tragic. Having eluded killers like malaria and AIDS, one should not then be killed prematurely by cancer especially a form of cancer that could have been prevented with something as simple and as affordable as a vaccine.

From this rostrum, I would like to express my sincerest sympathy for the afflicted populations of the southern part of the United States of America that have been so tragically affected by the passage of Hurricane Katrina in August, one of the most devastating hurricanes ever to strike our continent.

But, since most of the rich those who have an independent income but no associations or duties or ties have failed disastrously to live the good life, why should those who are currently poor do any better?

Another witness reported a tragic incident in Rafah that had occurred a few months prior to his appearance before the Special Committee, when he witnessed three young men being killed by IDF soldiers while they were returning to their homes.

Communism s fall gave the nations of the former Soviet bloc a chance to turn towards democracy, a market economy, and the rule of law. Some countries cut ties decisively with the communist past others were less successful, a few failed catastrophically.

It began as a result of weakness in a specific sector residential mortgages after a bubble in home prices allowed many Americans to borrow massively, and often disastrously, against the putative value of their equity in order to finance purchases.

One way to understand current conditions and what is needed to improve them is to consider two events that recently attracted considerable worldwide attention the launch of Boeing s Dreamliner passenger jet and the tragic death of Apple s Steve Jobs.

In swallowing the official account without skepticism Savage did not ask where any of these items may have come from The New York Times has apparently learned nothing from its badly flawed reporting on Saddam s supposed WMD.

The uncertain fate of programs such as Lebanon s underscores why it is a tragedy that education receives only 2 of humanitarian aid and why it is so important to establish a permanent fund for education in emergencies. Why should refugee children have to wait for months while the begging bowl is passed around?

I do not take an apocalyptic view of what recently happened tragic though it is for the bereaved families. It is an anarchic spasm of violence by a tiny minority.

A peacekeeper who would exploit the vulnerabilities of a wounded population already the victim of all that is tragic and cruel in war is really no different than a physician who would violate the patient entrusted to his or her care or than the lifeguard who drowns the very people in need of rescue.

And I happen to know that company pretty well because John Heinz, who was our U.S. senator who was tragically killed in a plane accident he had heard about my desire to build a new building, because I had a cardboard box and I put it in a garbage bag and I walking all over Pittsburgh trying to raise money for this site.