After the collapse of the First Empire in 1815, the French public lost the rights and privileges earned since the Revolution, but they remembered the participatory politics that characterized the period, with one historian commenting: " Thousands of men and even many women gained firsthand experience in the political arena: they talked, read, and listened in new ways ; they voted ; they joined new organizations ; and they marched for their political goals.

Thousands of angry Hamas loyalists marched on February 24, 2008 at the funeral of a Muslim preacher who died in PNA custody, turning the ceremony into a rare show of defiance against President Mahmoud Abbas.

Thousands of Union troops marched in formation and paraded before President Abraham Lincoln, the northern press, and many onlookers from Washington.

Thousands of protesters marched from the Mall in Washington D. C. to the grounds of the Pentagon, and then to the Crystal City district of Arlington, Virginia.

Thousands lined the streets to see them: the parade began on Fifth Avenue at 61st Street, proceeded uptown past ranks of white bystanders, turned west on 110th Street, and then swung on to Lenox Avenue, and marched into Harlem, where black New Yorkers packed the sidewalks to see them.

On February 14, 2004, the Associated Press reported that " Thousands of people, many of them women wearing headscarves, marched in France ... to protest a law banning the Islamic coverings and other religious apparel in public schools.

Thousands of striking workers marched through North London to Pentonville Prison.

Thousands, including wagon loads of virgins dressed in white, marched to Hyde Park demanding that the Bill be passed.

Thousands of American replacement troops poured through the city before being deployed to combat operations.

Thousands of such men came through the port on their way to the front lines.

Thousands of pounds of wool and mohair were sold annually through the Sanderson Wool Commission.

Thousands of armed marchers passed through the town and surrounding region on their way to and from the fighting at Blair Mountain, which is located up Spruce Fork from Madison.

Thousands of " Forty-Niners " reached California, by sailing around South America ( or taking a short-cut through disease-ridden Panama ), or walked the California trail.

Thousands poured through the wall into the western sectors of Berlin, and on November 12, East Germany began dismantling it.

Thousands of so-called " sourdoughs " passed through Seattle making the city's merchants prosperous.

Thousands of people around the world have contacted her through her work.

Thousands of League members, and many thousands more who received technical training through its publications, served in the conflict.

Thousands of people applied, but only 52 made it through to the next round judged by Iceland directors, as well as Malcolm Walker and Coleen Nolan.

Thousands of very well-kept shrubs and herbaceous plants weave through the cemetery's hills, ponds, woodlands, and clearings.

Thousands of birds pass through each year on their way to their breeding or wintering grounds.

Thousands of aircraft flown by the United States Army Air Corps / United States Army Air Forces and the RCAF destined for the European Theatre travelled through Gander.

Thousands more Iraqi and Kurdish Jews were transported through Operation Ezra, also funded by JDC.

Thousands of civilians were killed during the anti-insurgent campaigns stretching from the spring of 1987 through the fall of 1988.

Thousands of sites exist where it is possible to collect natural coloured sands for craftwork, with an infinite variety of colours being available around the globe varying with the contents of the mineral charged waters leeching through the sands.

The business of recording song poems was promoted through small display ads in popular magazines, comic books, tabloids, men's adventure journals and similar publications with a headline reading ( essentially ) Send in Your Poems-Songwriters Make Thousands of Dollars-Free Evaluation.

Thousands of Bellevue's youth have played baseball here from tee ball through high school.

Thousands of Toronto's citizens were recruited through the GGBG for service in the trenches.

Thousands of women applied to join the series with 16 people eventually getting through to compete.

Thousands of men and women from all branches of the Armed Forces, as well as military students from foreign nations, now pass through the gates of the Naval Amphibious Base yearly for training in amphibious warfare.

) Thousands of tax-evaders were prosecuted as were leading banks, producing hundreds of millions of Irish pounds of the Irish Exchequer through financial settlements and fines.

Thousands of people showed their creativity and voiced their opinions and after searching through countless submissions, the name and logo were chosen.

Thousands of boats locked through at Great Falls, carrying flour, whiskey, tobacco, and iron downstream ; carrying cloth, hardware, firearms, and other manufactured products upstream.

Thousands of students gathered in the streets of Beijing in a protest known as the May Fourth Movement.

Thousands of palms are ready for the demand of the markets and streets are being graded in certain portions of the town that lie off the highway .... The social life of the town is commendable.

Thousands of young men and women turned up dead in the streets of the capital and other cities in the following two years.

Thousands of pedicabs today operate on streets and lots of locales including Austin, Tx ; Manhattan, NY ; Chicago ; San Diego ; Boston ; San Francisco ; Miami ; Washington, D. C .; Denver ; Portland, OR ; Seattle ; Charleston ; New Orleans ; Phoenix ; Salt Lake City ; Cincinnati ; and dozens of other hot spots.

Thousands of children dress up in costumes and the streets close down for a parade featuring colorful floats.

Thousands of people took to the rain-soaked streets.

Thousands of flyers litter the streets in South Beach, Miami.

Thousands of people took to the streets around the town to welcome her home.

Thousands of people walked around the quiet city streets and frozen Charles River, some on cross-country skis.

Thousands of photographic portraits, previously taken on the streets of the host city, are shown using robotically controlled projectors.

Thousands of people lined the streets of Galway to welcome him home the following day.

Thousands of protesters took to the streets in a series of July 1 marches.

Thousands more lined the streets to cheer them on.

Thousands of admirers flooded the streets of Lima to pay their final respects to the man many considered the father of Peru's modern democracy.

Thousands of mourners lined the streets of Hồ Chí Minh City for the funeral of Võ Văn Kiệt.

Thousands of Brooklynites lined the streets to watch the procession.

Thousands of people summon to the streets to participate in the annual Mashramani celebrations, which has been a part of Guyanese culture for over 50 years.

Thousands of people took to the streets in weekly anti-drug marches, which drove the dealers out of Dublin and forced the drug barons underground.

To mark the occasion on the morning of Merdeka Day, Thousands of spectators converge on the city to watch the colourful parade along the streets of the city and performances held at the Merdeka Square.

Thousands lined the streets of Killamarsh for his funeral procession, and a Union Jack was placed in his memory on bridge street

Thousands of devotees pull the Chariots carved out of wood, across the streets of the old town.

Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets.

Thousands of activists who travelled from all over the world protested and some clashed with police in the streets of Prague for several days.