Yasser Arafat, the late Palestinian leader, often spoke of sending a million Palestinians to march on Jerusalem in an unarmed but unstoppable assertion of national independence.
Among those factors are a rise in car ownership; one-child families, often leery of sending students off to school on their own; cuts in school-bus service or charges for it as a result of school-budget cutbacks and fuel-price gyrations; and the decline of neighborhood schools and the rise of school choice, meaning that students often live farther from where they learn.
Tales of China's Cold War-era espionage are endemic in Tibetan exile, and Beijing is often accused of sending spies, tapping phones and supporting Tibetan groups opposed to the Dalai Lama's non-violent resistance.
The process used by researchers often consisted of sending letters or brief screening scales requesting school and health professionals and/or other data sources to identify possible cases of autism.
Iran usually tries to remain in the background in conflicts, preferring to support local groups rather than sending its own soldiers into battle, but the United States has often accused Iran of sending troops to Afghanistan and Iraq.
And pressures are growing from the less affluent parents who often cannot even think of sending a gifted child to university at all.
The nuclear-armed neighbours have a long history of diplomatic rows, and the two governments often accuse each other of sending spies into their territories.
The Tarok have maintained good relations with these settlers for a long time and are now themselves substantial cattle owners, often as a result of sending their sons to be trained in herding by the Fulani.
Others are not so fortunate, and Lemmon would often speak about the importance of "sending the elevator back down," Spacey said.
In interviews, Musk often has talked of his dream of sending astronauts to Mars.
