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154 examples of Mourning in a sentence

According to local custom, funerals are held after loved ones have gone missing for four months, so that a period of mourning can give families some closure.
And there was the response of Simone Veil: no collective culpability, German as the language not only of Nazism but also of anti-Nazism, and a belief that Europe is possible, with France and Germany, both mourning their ghosts, as its pillars.
The Iron Lady as LiberatorKHARKIV, UKRAINE – Prison is always a place of mourning.
Yet the crash that has sent all of Poland into mourning was none of these things.
Poland went into mourning.
Egypt’s Headless RevolutionCAIRO – “The man who taught me to sacrifice my heart for Egypt is dead,” said Vivian Magdi, mourning her fiancé.
Rather than mourning the ethnic-based, exclusionary Englishness that former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had done so much to promote in the 1980s, I argued that Britons should embrace a new civic identity, based on deeper stories about their country.
Mourning Becomes ConnectedPALO ALTO – My close friend Kris Olson died last week.
This was the largest natural disaster to strike Japan in its history, and the entire nation has been in mourning.
But today’s strong kizuna and mentality of mourning have led to sharply diminished consumption.
It is real for the Philippines citizens mourning relatives and trying to rebuild homes and lives; for the Pacific Islanders growing crops in containers, importing drinking water, and building sea walls to protect their islands from the encroaching ocean; and for hungry farmers in the Sahel.
An unprecedented degree of solidarity now exists across Europe, as was apparent in the collective mourning and outpouring of sympathy towards Spain; we must build on that huge potential to create a logic of solidarity in the world.
Two months later, in Portugal, similar parades featured the same Hitlerized Merkel caricatures, borne by howling demonstrators dressed in mourning clothes and decrying the German leader’s “policy of massacring the poor.”
If they succeed, perhaps they should add a black border around the proud Islamic green of their flag – the black not of mourning, but of justice.
Instead of mourning the liberal world order, as so many seem eager to do, we should be seeking to advance a new, shared purpose that can anchor a truly global system – and guarantee a better future for all.
Huge mourning crowds, crying, nearly hysterical, could be seen all over the vast empire Stalin had ruled.
Moreover, North Korean holidays, celebrations, and days of mourning are arranged around the war.
At a time of seemingly obligatory national mourning, it was the kind of provocative act that can only happen in a free, pluralistic society.
Those now mourning Adamowicz should not fool themselves into thinking his murder happened in a vacuum.
We are mourning thousands of deaths.
Anna KareninaLeo TolstoyVOLUME TWO PART VCHAPTER ITHE PRINCESS SHCHERBATSKAYA AT FIRST CONSIDERED it out of the question to have the wedding before Advent, to which there remained but five weeks, but could not help agreeing with Levin that to put it off until after the Fast might involve waiting too long, for Prince Shcherbatsky's old aunt was very ill and likely to die soon, and then the family would be in mourning and the wedding would have to be considerably deferred.
And the village, built altogether in the midst of the vast plain, and edged by its black roads as by a mourning border, had no touch of joyousness about it save the regular bands of its red tiles, constantly washed by showers.
A deep mourning was breaking the heart of the entire country.
With one arm he supported old Bonnemort, exhibiting him as a banner of misery and mourning, and crying for vengeance.
A few held their little ones in their arms, raising them and shaking them like banners of mourning and vengeance.
The discussion of money matters was put off; moreover, there was plenty of time before them, as the marriage could not decently take place till Charles was out of mourning, that is to say, about the spring of the next year.
The following day they had a talk over the mourning.
You will dress in black, but like a layman in mourning, not like a churchman.
Julien had the appearance of an extremely young man, in deep mourning; he did, as a matter of fact, look quite well, but the good abbe was himself too provincial to notice that Julien still had that swing of the shoulders which in the provinces betokens at once elegance and importance.
'Really,' Julien told himself, 'that black gown shows off the beauty of her figure better than anything; but why is she in mourning?
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