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

VOA: special.2009.10.16

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

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

VOA: special.2009.11.11

Faulkner ties the three levels of individual psychology, social history and tragedy into a whole.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

He was distracted, he was going too fast, and it ended up causing one death and some serious trauma and tragedy for the rest of the community."

VOA: special.2010.07.01

The date of a major tragedy is remembered as a black day.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

"With more stable infrastructure, once it's rebuilt, with a more robust health system, there's an opportunity to not only deal with the immediate tragedy of the earthquake, but hopefully, some of the longer-term crises that Haitians have experienced day in and day out."

VOA: special.2010.02.01

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

Kvit told VOA the recent destruction of books in Ukraine is not so much a tragedy, as it is a farce.

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

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

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

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

He was distracted, he was going too fast, and it ended up causing one death and serious trauma and tragedy for the rest of the community."

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

He said that in this moment of sadness and mourning for the whole community of Messina and Italy, we feel deeply and intimately united with those affected by the recent tragedy.

VOA: standard.2009.10.10

"We really stand for peace, and peace is what matters the most, and we believe the symbolism of being close to the site that had so much tragedy animating from it is the very sitethat we believe will bring about much healing."

VOA: standard.2010.08.03