Thousands of people were present at the periodic rallies and the membership in anticommunist organizations had grown steadily.

Thousands of people then alive might have recognized that easy and unhurried stride and confident carriage of the head.

Thousands of soup kitchens were opened to feed the hungry people, who grumbled that the farmers were keeping the food for themselves.

* 2005 – 2005 Kashmir earthquake: Thousands of people are killed by a magnitude 7. 6 earthquake in parts of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan.

Thousands of people consulted phrenologists for advice in various matters, such as hiring personnel or finding suitable marriage partners.

Thousands of people arrived in the town looking for oil wealth.

Thousands of people had gathered in front of the Stonewall, which had opened again, choking Christopher Street until the crowd spilled into adjoining blocks.

Thousands of people were displaced from their homes as a result of the conflict.

** Thousands riot in Algiers, Algeria against the National Liberation Front government ; by October 10 the army has killed and tortured about 500 people in crushing the riots.

Thousands of people were invited each year to receptions in the Paris city hall, while many political, media and artistic personalities were hosted in private flats owned by the city.

Who will plead for them if we are silent ?” Goodall has also said, “ Thousands of people who say they ' love ' animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been treated so with little respect and kindness just to make more meat.

Thousands of people complied.

Thousands of people attended her funeral.

Thousands of people died of starvation during the first half of the 20th century.

Thousands of people were displaced by the disaster and many found shelter in the ruins.

Thousands of people in Europride 2007 pride parade in Madrid

Thousands more Hmong people, mainly former soldiers and their families, escaped to remote mountain regions — particularly Phou Bia, the highest ( and thus least accessible ) mountain peak in Laos.

Thousands of people took up this offer to relocate temporarily in the wake of the event.

Thousands of Choctaw had stayed in Mississippi when most of the people left their traditional homeland for Indian Territory in the removal of the 1830s.

Thousands of people have already had them inserted.

Thousands of people are traced every year on behalf of their relatives.

Thousands more people poured into Nome during the spring of 1900 aboard steamships from the ports of Seattle and San Francisco.

Thousands of people in Paramaribo silent march against amnesty law

Thousands of people gathered on the shore to watch.

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 Egyptians had lost their lives and the country became disillusioned with Arab politics.

Thousands lost their lives during the sinkings by Soviet submarine of the refugee ships Wilhelm Gustloff, the Goya, and the General von Steuben.

Thousands of cattle were lost and large companies began to appropriate land and control the flow and supply of water in the area.

Thousands of mourners attended a memorial service at St. Gregory the Great Church in Warwick on February 24, 2003, to remember those lost in the fire.

Thousands of jobs have been lost at long-time area employers such as General Motors, Thompson Products, Deere & Company, Dana Canada Corp, Port Weller Drydocks, Domtar Papers and Gallagher Thorold Paper.

Thousands of Egyptians had lost their lives and the country became disillusioned with Pan-Arab politics.

Thousands of Acadians died in the expulsions, mainly from diseases and drowning when ships were lost.

Thousands of lives were lost and large sums expended in extending Ismail's dominions in the Sudan and in futile conflicts with Ethiopia.

Thousands died or were arrived sick and were treated in the hospital ( equipped for less than one hundred patients ) in the summer of 1847 ; in fact, many boats that reached Grosse-Île had lost the bulk of their passengers and crew, and many more died in quarantine on or near the island.

Thousands died or were treated in the hospital ( equipped for fewer than one hundred patients ); in fact, many boats that reached Grosse-Île had lost the bulk of their passengers and crew, and many more died in quarantine on or near the island.

Thousands of people were lost, and an estimated 200, 000 homes were destroyed, along with much of the Cà Mau fishing fleet.

Thousands rallied here in protest when Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas lost against Carlos Salinas in a presidential election widely believed to have been rigged in 1988.

Thousands of lives have been lost since 1989 due to the intensification of both the insurgency and the fight against it.

Thousands of pre-historic engravings were lost due to the construction of the dam.

Thousands lost their jobs the following year as operators decided to mechanize plants in the face of rising labor costs.

Thousands of scarred troops provided the need for improved prosthetic limbs and expanded techniques in plastic surgery or reconstructive surgery.

Thousands of people who suffer from disabilities caused by war or debilitating diseases such as polio and clubfoot benefit every year from artificial limbs, braces and wheelchairs produced at VVAF clinics.