As he works to improve relations with this country, does he appreciate how Americans react to individual tragedies of this kind?

The individual tragedies were losing their impact; they were only samples of what the whole world was suffering.

The stories are based on a respect for these individual tragedies and disasters.

Has the Minister any understanding of the individual human tragedy of unemployment?

The mothers put their own individual tragedies in a broader context.

For one week now, the death of Elisa, has wrenched the heart of a city so often jaded by individual tragedy.

"By remembering what happened in Bosnia through a series of cinematically compelling individual tragedies, one has already lost the battle," he said.

There were a lot of individual tragedies in a metropolis the size of New York.

Every case is an individual tragedy which tears apart a community.

There are also collective explanations for this increase in individual tragedy.