Ntankumaa originated from tragedies, real or legendary, which tradition claims befell par ticular small towns, villages, families, or individuals.
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In addition to these old tragedies, pugilistic encounters almost to the death had come off down to recent dates in that secluded arena.
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A small tribe of a few hundred people, living through revolutions, defeats, dangers, and tragedies, defends, squanders, or regains the identity of its own ethos.
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Ministers, municipal corporators, and bureaucrats awaken to the tragedies created by the strike only when there is a stench that threatens them.
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Most simply, as par t of the human family, we uphold one another as we share the tr iumphs and tragedies of life.
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Any writings in the field of poetry, tragedies, etc., would be an obstacle to my plan of becoming a professor of physiology and medicine.
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When set against the tragedies which litter the history of the twentieth century, these claims ring rather hollow.
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According to them, the official silence over the tragedies denies the validity of their sufferings.
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Can they illuminate the great tragedies of the past century?
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I asked my students what differences there were between the two tragedies.
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We note, finally, that in policymaking and policy tragedies, the narrative must embed a representation of the victim or the beneficiary (or both).
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Even though 45 % agreed that depression is a medical condition, 47 % felt that depressive disorders originated solely from tragedies or adversities in the person's life.
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Euripides often slows the dramatic action in order to give scope to his characters' passions in song, then uses those songs, in turn, to structure his tragedies.
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Although losses and tragedies occur as people grow older there are also strong grounds for believing in the ability of individuals to recover from these setbacks.
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However, the majority of chaconnes in tragedies en musique remained the prerogative of noble and magical characters, and thus mirrored the strongly hierarchical order of the ancien regime.
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Collocationswithtragedy
tragedy
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appalling tragedy
That such an appalling tragedy in such circumstances could occur was greeted first with total disbelief and then with furled anger in my constituency.
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awful tragedy
Sixteen months ago, anawfultragedytook place in this country.
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double tragedy
That is adoubletragedyfor them, but it has to be taken into account.
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