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So, after a week of heroism he and a few thousand of his men crossed the border into Austria and exile.
Hezbollah militants in south Lebanon then killed three Israeli soldiers and captured two others, and insisted on Israel’s withdrawal from disputed territory and an exchange for some of the several thousand incarcerated Lebanese.
How effective words can be, particularly if two hundred thousand people gather in a square to hear them!
Two thousand years ago, the Chinese philosopher Han Fei argued that effective governance required three things: the rule of law, bureaucratic tools, and political will.
Today, such vehicles are hand-built and expensive, typically costing roughly a million dollars each, give or take a few hundred thousand dollars.
In other words, one in a thousand voted for them, although they claimed to speak for that state’s retired and elderly people – over 30% of the population.
A similarly complex process went into fashioning the famous army of terracotta warriors that Qin Shi Huang, China’s first emperor, unveiled one thousand years later.
But ten thousand or more families will need homes in the Mansehra-Balakot-Kaghan area alone, not to speak of adjoining Kashmir.
Usually so staid and cold, it echoed to the rhythm of strings with the swing of the Louisiana bayous at one moment, and at the next with the memory of the concert at the Olympia, so close but a half-century away, where the saturnine firebrand upended ten thousand hearts.
Japan’s New Business LanguageTOKYO – Six years ago, I stood before several thousand mostly native Japanese speakers and addressed them in English.
I found out later that the Americans were offering bounties of several thousand dollars for Taliban and “foreign fighters.”
Malnutrition causes the greatest damage during the first thousand days of life, leading to grievous and irreversible changes in infant health.
Indeed, with the ratio of royals to commoners now at one to a thousand (compared to one to five million in the United Kingdom), the challenge of managing princely privileges, salaries, and demand for jobs has never been more intense.
Many are campaigns – I received several thousand e-mails recently from Muslim students who do not want exams to be administered on Fridays.
Malawi is one of the world’s least developed countries, with an infant mortality rate of 94 per thousand and a life expectancy at birth of 41 years.
Addressing the United Nations in September, Netanyahu highlighted his core message for all, especially Israelis: “Three thousand years ago, King David reigned over the Jewish state in our eternal capital, Jerusalem.
After ten years of war, more than a hundred thousand casualties, mostly Iraqis, and an astronomical cost of almost $1 trillion, the US leaves behind an Iraq that is neither more secure nor especially democratic.
History has proven him right a thousand times.
At that level of production, Iraq would be a middle-income country, with a gross national product per person of several thousand dollars per year, including non-oil production.
Corrupt bosses put to shame petty government bureaucrats who steal a measly few thousand dollars -- even a few million.
Thus, even if the Chinese authorities can somehow keep their capital controls from hemorrhaging as the country’s financial system becomes more sophisticated and decentralized, they will not be able to stop the controls from dying a death of a thousand cuts.
That amounts to almost a thousand people who have found jobs through the program so far.
The fawning article was devoted to one Donald Trump, in whom the author found a thousand virtues because of his supposed hostility to “the system,” the likelihood that he would abandon the West’s “liberal orientation,” and his willingness to attack “media power,” “economic globalization,” and “Wall Street’s arrogance” (and that’s not the half of it).
But in 1973, after crossing the Suez Canal, Egyptian infantrymen by the thousand stood their ground unflinchingly against advancing Israeli battle tanks.
The Syrian track – requiring Israel’s withdrawal from the strategically vital Golan Heights and the evacuation of tens of thousand of settlers – is hampered not only by the Israeli leadership’s legitimacy deficit, but also by US opposition to the talks.
Unmanaged rivers regularly overflow their banks and inundate villages during typhoon season, much as they did a thousand years ago.
And Pakistan’s strategy of “bleeding India to death by a thousand cuts” through insurgency and terrorism has accomplished little, while making its military an enormously powerful domestic player and spawning terror outfits (some of which have turned against their sponsors).
Within a few years, several thousand lepers and people with other disabilities were living there in a thriving community.
The political problem can be finessed: as Don Kohn, a vice-chairman of the Federal Reserve, recently observed, teaching a few thousand feckless financiers not to over-speculate is much less important than securing the jobs of millions of Americans and tens of millions around the globe.
The authors used crude death rates (CDR’s), which reflect the number of deaths per thousand people, in explaining the rise in mortality.
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