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For over a thousand years, under Mecca’s traditional rulers, the Hashemite descendants of the Prophet Muhammad, all sects debated and exchanged knowledge in the Great Mosque.
Liberal World Order, R.I.P.NEW DELHI – After a run of nearly one thousand years, quipped the French philosopher and writer Voltaire, the fading Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire.
Per hundred thousand residents, the US has an incarceration rate over five times that of England, six times that of Canada, and seven times that of Germany.
For several thousand years, the free market was comprised of individuals: craftsmen, traders, and consumers.
He was Gujarat’s chief minister in 2002 when riots killed more than a thousand Muslims.
His own image has been tarnished by his inaction (or worse) during the massacre of more than a thousand Gujarati Muslims in a pogrom on his watch in 2002.
What Verdi believed was possible in the 19 th century and the thousand years that preceded it, but is no longer.
Modern science began in Europe 300 years ago with relatively few people – perhaps no more than a thousand when the putative scientific revolution was in full swing.
The one thousand billion Deutschmarks shifted East since unification might otherwise have been spent propping up the sagging German welfare state, delaying the moment of truth even longer.
Pope John Paul II began his pilgrimage in Gdansk, birthplace of Solidarity, with a remembrance mass for St. Adalbert, who introduced Poland to Catholicism some thousand years ago.
Together with poor design, they explain why America’s 2009 stimulus cost several hundred thousand dollars per temporary job created.
For two thousand years, they had to defend themselves against attacks by expansionist Tamil kingdoms from the Indian mainland.
Six thousand Americans die annually from texting or talking on the phone while driving.
Many human viral diseases have not been with us very long, perhaps only ten to twenty thousand years.
At the moment, barely sixty thousand soldiers qualify; the Weizsaecker Commission calls for an increase to 140,000 of different stages of readiness, sufficient to intervene in two simultaneous crises.
Modern China has benefited enormously from this arrangement; nonetheless, there is keen resentment that the Chinese civilization-state’s vast achievements over several thousand years offer China no special status.
If I earn ten, a hundred, or a thousand times more than you, it is because I deserve ten, a hundred, or a thousand times more than you.
Spending $200 million could avert several hundred thousand deaths, yielding benefits that are 25 times higher than the costs.
While a trucker in the United States can haul a load a thousand miles in about 20 hours, in India the equivalent trip takes 4-5 days.
Bukharin reasoned that Stalin’s methods were enabling the Soviet Union’s rapid development into an industrial power, and the future of communism was far more important than the loss of a few thousand lives – or even a few million.
The continent may not be the island of stability it once was – Russian President Vladimir Putin and a few thousand European jihadists have seen to that.
The recent dispatch of Russian aircraft, missiles, and a few thousand troops to Syria is a flag-waving substitute for that failed “Novorossiya” project.
Back then, many predicted that Lagos wouldn’t last the thousand or so days that Allende ruled before Pinochet launched his coup.
No matter: Zeman took the opportunity to shore up his popularity by appealing to racist and xenophobic sentiments, telling several thousand listeners (separated by police from a large counter-demonstration) that they were not extremists.
According to one recent study, species are going extinct between ten and several thousand times faster than they did during stable periods in the planet’s history, and populations within species are vanishing hundreds or thousands of times faster than that.
Even then, Rome did not succumb to another state, but suffered a death of a thousand cuts inflicted by various barbarian tribes.
“We have a thousand reasons to get China-US relations right,” he said, “and not one reason to spoil” them.
Iraq’s Silent DeadEvidence is mounting that America’s war in Iraq has killed tens of thousands of civilian Iraqis, and perhaps well over one hundred thousand.
Cyclone Sidr, which ravaged Bangladesh in 2007, disrupted several hundred thousand small businesses and adversely affected more than 560,000 jobs.
Its residents, estimated to number anywhere from a few hundred thousand to more than a million, do not officially exist.
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