Canadian folksinger Gordon Lightfoot told the story of the tragedy in "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."

VOA: special.2009.11.11

Ecologist Garrett Hardin described this idea in nineteen sixty-eight as "the tragedy of the commons."

VOA: special.2009.10.16

Elinor Ostrom showed how local decision making can lessen the tragedy.

VOA: special.2009.10.16

The tragedy claimed the lives of millions of Ukrainians and other Soviet peoples, including Russians,Belorusyns, Moldovans,Crimean Tatars, Kazakhs and Jews.

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

The White House has promised a thorough investigation of the matter, and steps to guard against a repeat of the tragedy.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

"You are more endeared to these characters by feeling you are in the fight or the battle or the tragedy with them,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.19

"You might as well laugh as cry and the tragedy that is the human condition invites sarcasm, invites irony,invites satire, invites laughter.

VOA: standard.2010.03.20

Survivors of the tragedy and activists fear that such an appeal is again likely to get entangled in India's slow moving judicial system.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge told reporters Sunday that the tragedy must not be forgotten and that lessons can be learned from it.

VOA: standard.2010.03.01

People who lived through the events of that day say that nearly a decade later, they are worried that the tragedy is slowly being forgotten.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

"I think the tragedy is he had to compromise upon the attempts to clear his name in order to smooth the path home to Libya,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

(Speech) Mr.Medvedev says the government has taken all measures to ensure that order is maintained and that the country needs the police to help with the tragedy.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

No one in the town has been able to forget the tragedy.

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

From the tragedy in Moscow's subway, to the 2004 Madrid train bombings and the explosions in London's public transit system the following year, experts say no country is immune to terrorism.

VOA: standard.2010.03.30

But, the space shuttle program has come to represent the success,and tragedy, of discovery at the limits of our world.

VOA: special.2011.07.27