The message from the mayor is clear: We can no longer tolerate the needless tragedies associated with street homelessness.
The time and place - Texas, just before the Kennedy assassination - tacitly heighten the film's sense of needless tragedy.
Many of these needless tragedies occurred because someone tried to outrun a train and lost.
Though that thought may weigh heavily on the minds of doctors, it may also serve as protection from incompetence and needless medical tragedy.
The governor said the law would prevent needless tragedies.
He accused the local council of allowing a needless tragedy, through a policy of not fitting smoke detectors to council houses.
Today there is dispute about how far he caused his and his followers deaths, or they were victims of a needless tragedy.
Still, the sense that I was watching needless tragedy only mounted in me.
He also struggled with the frequent needless tragedies that he was forced to witness.
With your help we can end this needless tragedy.