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A thousand riot police used rubber bullets and tear gas on the workers, and hundreds were injured, but they did not back down.
At the end of December, a few thousand people staged a demonstration in Moscow’s central Manezh Square, partly to show support for Alexei Navalny – an anti-corruption lawyer, well-known blogger, and leader of a dwindling opposition movement – and his younger brother, Oleg.
The turning point in the US came in 1998, when a federal court decision upheld a patent on an accounting system, which launched a flood of business-method patents--over a thousand a year in 1999 and 2000.
With the decision of its member states to send several thousand soldiers to Lebanon to implement the UN cease-fire resolution 1701, the European Union has taken the most significant decision yet within its Neighborhood Policy.
The Middle East’s Slow-Motion RevolutionAMMAN – There seem to be a thousand and one interpretations of the changes sweeping across the countries of the Middle East and North Africa.
Yet his foreign travels have achieved little, beyond improving his personal standing, which had suffered considerably following accusations that, as Chief Minister of Gujarat, he had been at least negligent as more than a thousand people were killed in a 2002 anti-Muslim pogrom.
And, with fewer than a thousand French citizens still living in Mali, even its pragmatic interest is relatively slight.
Despite their travails, only a few thousand of the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims have embraced the extremist project of killing infidels and moderates.
Of the millions who joined in 1980, only some 10-20 thousand were active throughout the country.
In the years 1917 to 1919, US participation in World War I and anarchist bombings after the war led to almost two thousand federal prosecutions, mass roundups of aliens, and summary deportations.
Indeed, two thousand people have been arrested over the last three years for such crimes as abuse of power and misappropriation of state property.
Several thousand were expelled from universities, and 80 were imprisoned following political trials.
Yet today we have perhaps a thousand religions that all claim to be Islam.
The Koran, after all, is one book, not two or three, or a thousand.
Blade technologies then disappeared and reappeared cyclically in these areas, and in some regions, such as Australia, they only appeared a few thousand years ago.
These operations have varied widely in scale, ranging from a few dozen observers, police officers, or civilian advisors to several thousand soldiers.
Imagine the chaos that may ensue if separatist energies are allowed to continue in an unfettered way in a world where over two thousand ethnic groups live in over 150 distinct states.
Since the spring of 2014, when Russia started fueling the conflict in Donbas and other parts of Eastern Ukraine, ten thousand people have died there, and another two million have been displaced.
A thousand miles to the west of Georgia is Moldova (population 3.5 million), which lies between Romania and Ukraine.
Two thousand European Union officials run the country, and 16,000 NATO troops guard its security.
More than a thousand of them died at Gallipoli, thanks to Churchill’s folly.
As Fed Vice Chairman Don Kohn said, ensuring that a few thousand investment bankers receive their just financial punishment is a non-starter when attempts to do so put the jobs of millions of Americans – and tens of millions outside the US – at risk.
The Party Congress has its origins in the mass gatherings and propaganda campaigns of the Mao era, and can bring together as many as two thousand delegates.
In the 1960s, the broadcaster Edward R. Murrow said the most important part of international communications is not the ten thousand miles of electronics, but the final three feet of personal contact.
Throughout his presidency, Putin repeatedly invoked Russia as an ancient, powerful, and divinely ordained state going back a thousand years, a civilization separate from the West, neither Communist nor a western liberal democracy.
With more than a thousand points still to be agreed, all the policymakers I’ve spoken to recently say that they cannot see how a meaningful deal can be reached by December in Copenhagen.
Kenyatta and Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto – both charged with crimes against humanity in connection with the 2007-08 post-election violence that left more than 1,000 people dead and displaced several hundred thousand – are the first suspects indicted by the ICC to be elected to lead a country.
Germany has received more applications for asylum than any other European country, but its six refugees per thousand inhabitants is less than a third of Turkey’s 21 per thousand, which in turn is dwarfed by Lebanon’s 232 per thousand.
But Israel and Egypt – partners in the siege – turn a blind eye most of the time to tunnels (perhaps as many as a thousand) that snake under the Egyptian border at Rafah and bring in black-market goods, which Hamas then taxes.
But, thanks to diplomatic cooperation among coalition partners, targeted air strikes, and on-the-ground support from Iraqi Kurdish forces, the militants were driven out, after losing roughly a thousand fighters.
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