Thousands of young adults from Lower Saxony and Westphalia headed east.

Thousands of young applicants join this contest each year.

Thousands of people had helped search for the young woman and hundreds attended her funeral.

Thousands of students, old and young, come from all over North America and around the world to attend summer sessions and courses held throughout the year.

Thousands of people especially the young people gather at Asanang and celebrate Wangala with great joy.

Thousands of young men were sent to the college to receive training and education before entering World War II.

Thousands of young people from Canada and around the world assert that Canada World Youth ( CWY ) has had a profound impact on their lives.

Thousands of young Germans rejected urbanization to pursue a more natural lifestyle.

Thousands of spectators crowd the shopping streets on these days to get close enough to photograph the oiran and their retinue of male bodyguards and entourage of apprentices ( young girls in the distinctive red kimono, white face paint and loose, long black hair reminiscent of Shinto priestesses ).

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 gay men and women were publicly humiliated, physically harassed, fired, jailed, or institutionalized in mental hospitals.

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

Thousands of Chinese men arrived in California to work as laborers, recruited by industry as low wage workers.

Thousands of black men fought on the side of rebellious colonists in the American Revolutionary War, many in the new Continental Navy.

Thousands of men poured into the county during this time in the hunt for silver.

Thousands of Blue Gum Eucalyptuss were planted on the Nipomo Mesa in 1908 by two men who formed the Los Berros Forest Company with the idea of selling the trees as hardwood.

Thousands of men who have amassed fortunes in all sorts of enterprises in other states have gone to New York to live because they like the life of the city or because their distant enterprises require representation at the financial centre.

Thousands of holy men and women attend, and the auspiciousness of the festival is in part attributable to this.

Thousands of gay men migrated to San Francisco, turning the quiet Irish working-class neighborhood around Castro Street into a bustling center of activity.

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.

The first use recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary of the phrase, to hell in a hand basket, is in The Great North-Western Conspiracy in All Its Startling Details, by I. Windslow Ayer, in alleging that, at a meeting of the Order of the Sons of Liberty, Judge Morris of the Circuit Court of Illinois said: " Thousands of our best men were prisoners in Camp Douglas, and if once at liberty would ‘ send abolitionists to hell in a hand basket.

Thousands of men and women joined the Order during his reign.

Thousands of men have played for Kinston teams including Rick Ferrell, Jim Thome, Ron Guidry, and Manny Ramirez.

Thousands joined them in the desert, mostly men but also a handful of women.

Thousands of men and women were deported.

Thousands of men lay huddled on a narrow beachhead, their organizations and leaders cut down by the disastrous enemy fire.

Ayer alleges that, at an August meeting of the Order of the Sons of Liberty, the Judge Morris noted above said: " Thousands of our best men were prisoners in Camp Douglas, and if once at liberty would ‘ send abolitionists to hell in a hand basket.

Thousands of male athletes have been kept from participating in collegiate sports while men ’ s athletic scholarships and coaching positions have diminished as well.

Thousands of officers and enlisted men were released, leaving only 10, 000 men to fly and repair the planes and engines left over from the war.

Thousands of men worked for the Parks Department from 1914 to 1915.

Thousands of Chinese women committed suicide ; The Daily Telegraph journalist E. J. Dillon stated it was to avoid rape by Alliance forces, and he witnessed the mutilated corpses of Chinese women who were raped and killed by the Alliance troops.

Thousands of women composed poems " in honour of Akhmatova ", mimicking her style and prompting Akhmatova to exclaim: " I taught our women how to speak, but don't know how to make them silent ".

" Thousands of women see the pictures of Ridge in the newspapers and speculate on the identity of the woman who has won the heart of the man who has, until recently, been a playboy, and who has refused to settle for one woman.

Thousands of skilled craftsmen and women were employed in the industry.

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 Muslim women demonstrated across universities in Egypt against the French decision.

Thousands of women, from large cities to small villages, became active participants in satyagraha.

Thousands of women from rural Thailand, China, Laos, Burma and Cambodia are sold to brothels in Bangkok or in other countries by " job brokers ," who often operate in organized international syndicates.

Thousands of indigenous Burmese women from Shan State in the north and from Keng Tung in Eastern Burma have been sold into brothels in Bangkok and throughout Thailand.

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

Thousands of others joined defensive militias at home and there was a great increase in the number of women serving in the military itself, particularly in the Red Army ( see below ).

Thousands of Africans and Boer women and children were forcibly moved from their land into concentration camps, where some 40, 000 people perished.

Thousands of women were taken from the local populations by the Spanish and used by conquistadors as personal vassals.

* Thousands of Pakistani women face charges under Islamic laws