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“Four thousand are junk, but 1,000 of them are effective – 1,000 videos against [Daesh] propaganda.”
Moreover, Dutch peacekeepers failed to put up a fight or even sound a meaningful alarm when the Serbs stormed the town of Srebrenica, when some seven thousand Muslim men and boys might have been saved.
Several thousand PLA troops are indisputably stationed in the Khunjerab Pass on the Xinjiang border to protect the Karakoram Highway, which PLA soldiers are now repairing in several places.
But their print runs range between 20 and 100 thousand copies, and their circulation is mostly limited to Moscow.
Vedomosti readers may sympathize with Khodorkovsky's plight, but they account for only 60 thousand people.
In pursuit of protein-rich meals, Nkhoma is pushing her cluster of villages, representing a thousand households in all, to begin raising chickens for eggs and meat, cows for milk, and “exotic” vegetables such as cabbage for vitamins.
This could help a few firms at the margin – and presumably Trump’s team will highlight news stories (real or fake) about a few hundred or even a few thousand jobs being “saved.”
The Trump administration is now considering a proposal to restrict the right of return from five million Palestinians to a few hundred thousand.
Similar studies have taught us that sensitivity to alcohol consumption and resistance to diseases like malaria and leprosy also evolved within the last several thousand years.
The attacks on America of September 2001 cost several thousand lives.
Half a trillion dollars was committed to the war in Iraq, an amount roughly equal to the sponsorship of all basic research for the last thousand years.
When, in April 1999, ten thousand members of the Falun Gong sect appeared mysteriously in front of Zhongnanhai, the compound of the Chinese Communist Party’s leadership, to be arrested en masse, observers found it hard to explain what was going on.
More than a thousand words (an enormous footprint in a normally succinct document) were required to summarize three separate staff briefings on the subject.
Nowhere among those thousand words were the phrases “trading partners,” “the foreign exchange value of the dollar,” “commodity prices,” or “global supply chains” to be found.
This hope alone keeps the country from disintegrating into a thousand warring parts.
We could even wish them immortal...”The second reason applies to the hard-working rich, the type of person who“devotes himself forever to the pursuit of wealth and greatness....With the most unrelenting industry he labors night and day....serves those whom he hates, and is obsequious to those whom he despises....[I]n the last dregs of life, his body wasted with toil and diseases, his mind galled and ruffled by the memory of a thousand injuries and disappointments....he begins at last to find that wealth and greatness are mere trinkets of frivolous utility....Power and riches....keep off the summer shower, not the winter storm, but leave him always as much, and sometimes more exposed than before, to anxiety, to fear, and to sorrow; to diseases, to danger, and to death...”In short, on the one hand, we don’t wish to disrupt the perfect felicity of the lifestyles of the rich and famous; on the other hand, we don’t wish to add to the burdens of those who have spent their most precious possession – their time and energy – pursuing baubles.
Has anybody noticed that for more than a decade now, US imports have been averaging several hundred billion (thousand million) dollars more than exports?
To imagine the shape of global civics, a worthwhile exercise would be to take 15 minutes to consider what we would say to the seven billionth human being – who will join us in less than a thousand days – about the human condition awaiting her.
Too many governments in Africa are clinging to state telecommunications monopolies as an easy source of revenue (or still less sensibly, as a perceived source of a few hundred or thousand jobs), while inadvertently strangling the introduction of new technologies.
India Stops Turning the Other CheekNEW DELHI – For two and a half decades, Pakistan has pursued a policy of inflicting on India “death by a thousand cuts” – bleeding the country through repeated terrorist attacks, rather than attempting an open military confrontation which it cannot win against India’s superior conventional forces.
More than a hundred thousand people remain displaced by the accident, some having lost family, homes, possessions, and even the desire to live.
Providing proper nutrition in a child’s first thousand days is particularly important.
And in a fatal tweet, Le Pen’s top aide seems to link himself to a cyber attack most likely conceived, if not executed, several thousand kilometers to the east.
Meanwhile, Pakistan is struggling with unprecedented flooding that has killed more than a thousand people and affected millions more.
In China, flash floods have so far killed more than a thousand people and destroyed more than a million homes.
This is far more likely to be the result of a warming climate – a consequence of this decade being, worldwide, the hottest for a thousand years.
The combined assault has, among other things, killed hundreds of people and wounded more than a thousand, put the city’s remaining hospitals out of commission, and deprived the population of drinking water.
Five hundred thousand years of experience in hunting and gathering, coupled with cheaper and faster molecular analysis, performed by faster and cheaper computers makes this task economically feasible.
Britain's National Health Service now employs several hundred thousand volunteers.
Forty-eight hours after the first Germans clambered atop the Wall, I stood through a freezing night with several thousand West Berliners in the muddy no-man’s-land that was Potsdamer Platz at the old heart of pre-war Berlin.
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