Sentence examples for approved thousands of from inspiring English sources

In part based on that theory, cities have approved thousands of new luxury units over the past several years, hoping to check high rents that have led more than 20 million American renters to be classified as "cost burdened," defined as spending more than 30percentt of one's income on housing.

Amid disclosures that it employed "robo signers," who approved thousands of foreclosure documents without reading them, the bank temporarily halted its foreclosures, and it now faces a Federal racketeering lawsuit.

A recent investigation by the Associated Press found that the U.S. had approved thousands of requests by men to bring in child and adolescent brides to live in the United States over the past decade.

In Los Angeles alone officials have approved thousands of new homes within 1,000 feet of a freeway — even as they advised developers that this distance poses health concerns.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved thousands of generic drugs deemed equivalent to traditional brand-name medicines.

Before the vote, Democratic lawyers argued that if a recount were not approved, thousands of voters would be disenfranchised.

Voters across the state have approved hundreds of local referendums over the past decade that have raised billions of dollars from increased property taxes for schools.

At the same time, Israel has met with Qatari officials and tacitly approved millions of dollars of Qatari funding for Hamas-governed Gaza.

While governor, Stanford approved millions of dollars in state grants for the construction of a transcontinental railroad line during a period when he was also president of the Central Pacific Railroad.

The government has trucked weapons and approved millions of dollars in payments to tribesmen in Anbar province in a bid to win their help ousting al-Qaeda-linked fighters who took over the cities of Fallujah and Ramadi earlier this month.

Then, the EU's book-keepers approved billions of euros of bad loans to countries such as Greece, which had dressed up their public finances to make it appear as though they were meeting criteria when they were not.