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.

Thousands of people lost limbs during many stages of planting of land-mines.

* 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 slaves found freedom by fleeing from their masters, forming communities of maroons and raiding isolated plantations.

" Thousands of their family members were imprisoned for years in work camps and jails and later exiled for decades to miserable state farms built on reclaimed marshlands.

Thousands of them and their Timbú and Charrúa allies besieged the miserable company of half-starved soldiers and adventurers.

Thousands of others, including Paraguay's bravest soldiers and generals, also went to their deaths before firing squads or were hacked to pieces on Solano López's orders.

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

** Thousands storm the Stasi headquarters in East Berlin in an attempt to view their government records.

Thousands of victims had invested their money in pyramids that promised them extraordinary interest rates.

Thousands of volunteers sold coffee from Angola and Nicaragua in worldshops, in the back of churches, from their homes, and from stands in public places, using the products as a vehicle to deliver their message: give disadvantaged producers in developing countries a fair chance on the world ’ s market, and support their self-determined sustainable development.

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

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 children took their first airplane rides there until 2003.

Thousands of teenagers and their rebuilt 1940s and 1950s cars would flood Van Nuys Blvd.

Thousands of Spanish settlers also immigrated to Puerto Rico from the Canary Islands during the 18th and 19th centuries, so many so that whole Puerto Rican villages and towns were founded by Canarian immigrants, and their descendants would later form a majority of the Spanish population on the island.

Thousands of Union troops and their supplies came to Rolla by train from St. Louis and then were transferred to wagon trails to go to the battles of Wilson Creek in Springfield and Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove in Arkansas, plus a number of other smaller skirmishes.

Thousands more on the West Coast were required to move inland, often losing their homes and businesses in the process.

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 people looking for high-paying mining jobs streamed into Jeffrey City, and Western Nuclear designed and financed a company town for the workers and their families.