Although it was dark as usual I could see that the hall had only recently contained a great many people.

After another long pause he asked, `` How many people know who they are ''??

Too many people think that the primary purpose of a higher education is to help you make a living ; ;

And no doubt many people in states like the Carolinas and Georgia, which were among the most Tory in sentiment in the eighteenth century, bitterly regretted the revolt against the Crown.

Isfahan became more of a legend than a place, and now it is for many people simply a name to which they attach their notions of old Persia and sometimes of the East.

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

The fact that the Americans who upheld the sovereignty of their states did this in order to keep many of their people more securely in slavery -- the antithesis of individual liberty -- made the conflict grimmer, and the greater.

This combined experience, on a foundation of very average, I assure you, intelligence and background, has helped me do things many well-informed people would bet heavily against.

Studying The Merchant Of Venice in high school and college has given many young people their notions about Jews.

Mr. Freeman said that in many of the countries he visited on a recent world trade trip people were more awed by America's capacity to produce food surpluses than by our industrial production -- or even by the Soviet's successes in space.

Certainly, most continue to lack a certain warmth in communication with other people, but many adjust to school, even college, to jobs and even to marriage and parenthood.

Too many people were afraid if the GOP won, they'd have to spend all their time praying.

Then it added: `` It is not possible to determine how extensive these ill effects will be -- nor how many people will be affected ''.

The two in the bed knew each other as old people know the partners with whom they have shared the same bed for many years, and they needed to say no more.

I did so because I agree with so many here today, that he is the beloved Speaker of all the people of the United States.

The Federal Government is aiding local governments in several places to survey residential, commercial and industrial buildings to determine what fallout protection they would provide, and for how many people.

I am not easily persuaded that a rule accepted by so many people for so many centuries can be so lightly dismissed.

The idea of a Peace Corps has captured the imagination of a great many people.

I like to make a seedbed right in the open, though many people start them successfully in cold frames.

This is the point on which so many people have written off the aircraft in favor of the missile.

And this helps explain why so many people are now going camping.

The argument against this last approach is comparable to that which rejects stories about hoop snakes, about snakes that break themselves into many pieces and join up again, or even of ghosts that chase people out of graveyards ; ;

In there aren't many young people in the neighborhood the modifier young takes dominant stress away from its head people: the fact that the young creatures of interest are people seems rather obvious.

today, these many years later, after all the temptations resisted or yielded to, the weasel satisfactions and the engulfing dissatisfactions since endured, I call it corrupting still.

I had always resisted the passes made at me by other kids, and many times I had thought about my love for Johnnie who, being thirty, brought a maturity to love that the kids around town could know nothing about.

Cukor spent many hours coaching Vivien Leigh and Olivia de Havilland prior to the start of filming Wind, but Clark Gable resisted his efforts to get him to master a Southern accent.

Creating free-standing, three-dimensional sculptures of holy figures was resisted by Christians for many centuries, out of the belief that daimones inhabited pagan sculptures, and also to make a clear distinction between Christian and pagan art.

" But the Methodists resisted the many attacks against their movement.

He had the satisfaction of reducing the most powerful and obstinate enemy of papal authority, Count Guido of Montefeltro, who for many years had successfully resisted the papal troops.

After Mikhail Gorbachev took the office of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in March 1985, he began a series of political reforms that were resisted by many established members of the Communist Party.

In the 20th century, many scholars have resisted this trend, defending myth from modern criticism.

Edén Pastora and many of the indigenous guerrilla forces, who were not associated with the " Somozistas ", also resisted the Sandinistas.

Independence came in 1991, as Saparmurat Niyazov, a former local communist party boss, declared himself absolute ruler for life as Turkmenbashi or Leader of the Turkmen and transitioned the newly independent Turkmenistan into an authoritarian state under his absolute control and has thus far resisted the democratization that has influenced many of the other former Soviet Republics.

Because the trial of the Morgan conspirators was mishandled, and the Masons resisted further inquiries, many New Yorkers concluded that Masons " controlled key offices and used their official authority to promote the goals of the fraternity.

Monckton's forces, including companies of Rogers ' Rangers, forcibly removed thousands of Acadians, chasing down many who resisted, and sometimes committing atrocities.

This made implementation difficult, and was resisted by many vendors and users with significant investments in other network technologies.

Melbourne resisted the trend to shut down the network partly because the city's wide streets and geometric street pattern made trams more practicable than in many other cities, partly because of resistance from the unions, and partly because the Chairman of the MMTB, Sir Robert Risson, successfully argued that the cost of ripping up the concrete-embedded tram tracks would be prohibitive.

Voters in some constituencies resisted outright domination by powerful landlords, but still were, in many cases, open to corruption.

" The Muslim horsemen dashed fierce and frequent forward against the battalions of the Franks, who resisted manfully, and many fell dead on either side.

However, the opinion of Joseon soon turned against Japan as many Japanese actions were considered to be too brutal and barbaric including confiscation of lands and drafting civilians for forced labor, even executing those that resisted.

Unlike many of France's former colonies, the Malagasy Republic strongly resisted movements towards communism.

Despite the easy recapture of Madrid, and nominal control by Joseph's government over many cities and provinces, Joseph's reign over Spain was always tenuous at best, and constantly resisted by pro-Bourbon guerrillas.

However, " night after night he painted until dawn ", only then going to bed for a few hours, and resisted the many temptations of the big city at night.

The Teleri resisted, and a battle broke out, in which many of them were slain.

He resisted many of the excesses of the romantic era ballets in his work.

Later emperors introduced policies of iconoclasm ; yet many Christians and Church leaders resisted for decades, eventually triumphing when a later Empress ( Irene ) came to power who was sympathetic to their cause.

Robert Atwood, then publisher of the Anchorage Times and an Anchorage ' booster ,' was an early leader in capital move efforts — efforts which many in Juneau and Fairbanks resisted.