Sentence examples for thousands of acts from inspiring English sources

More than half of the thousands of acts of self-injury which take place every year in our jails are committed by women and girls.

In the classroom, it's easier to dismiss the courage of Southern troops or the savagery of Union officers; standing on the same field where thousands of acts of valor and cowardice and ruthlessness played out simultaneously, it's much harder.

In modern times there has been a greater reliance on the statute law contained in the thousands of acts of Parliament, but there are more than 300,000 recorded cases to turn to for precedent.

Over the past few decades, thousands of acts of religiously and ideologically motivated violence have been carried out against US citizens by individuals associated with organizations that promote the use of violence to achieve their social and political goals.

As a result, the exhibit also shows the breadth of a movement that revered its leaders but depended on its foot soldiers, who orchestrated thousands of acts of resistance that do not appear in textbooks.

"I was not a hero," says Senator McCain, heroically, "I was witness to a hundred, thousands of acts of courage, compassion and love by men who remain my heroes to this day".

What I found when I opened her New American Standard to 1 Thessalonians was a scribbled, vague cross reference to the 17th chapter of Acts, the book immediately following the four gospels of the New Testament which details the missionaries of Christ's apostles in the distant reaches of the Holy Land.

With the 30th anniversary of ACT UP's American birth next month, it's a moving consideration of the HIV crisis in a personal light that's too often unseen.

The Breton shirt was created officially by French law, the 27th of March 1858 Act, which made the blue-and-white striped knit part of the regulation uniform for French sailors.

The 1st century AD Book of Acts (8 40) refers to Azotus (the Hellenistic name of Ashdod) as the place in which Philip the Evangelist reappeared after he converted the Ethiopian eunuch to Christianity.

Rereading the 15th chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, Lee was struck by how the early leaders of the church adapted the requirements of Jewish law to the realities of the gentile world.