Sentence examples for thousands of mass from inspiring English sources

Of the many thousands of "mass incidents" of unrest each year in rural China, 65% relate to disputes over the (often illegal) seizure of land by officials.

The JKCCS was the first to draw attention to thousands of mass graves in remote parts of Kashmir and to demand that the government investigate them to make clear who the dead were and how they died.

Aznar was succeeded by the Socialist José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, however, and in 2007 Spain's parliament approved a Law of Historical Memory, which required the state to support the exhumation of thousands of mass graves.

He rightly counters that under international law, there can be no amnesty for crimes against humanity and that unsolved disappearances — thousands of mass graves are unopened — constitute a continuing crime.

Because many people believe that wealth flows from access to power more than it does from talent or risk-taking, the wealth gap has incited outrage and is viewed as at least partly responsible for tens of thousands of mass protests around the country in recent years.

In recent weeks, thousands of Mass Effect dissidents have clogged Internet message boards with angry missives, while thousands more have signed a petition demanding the ending be changed (a charity drive to build awareness for the cause raised eighty thousand dollars), and a fan went so far as to file a complaint against BioWare with the Federal Trade Commission.

The first and typically every 11th set of mass spectra were acquired on the internal standard mixture only.

Present days are often referred to as the 6th event of mass extinction (Leakey and Lewin 1996) because of human activities rapidly impacting biodiversity.

Lenin made the "look here, see what we have wrought" gesture common to many of the tens of thousands of mass-produced Lenins, although this specific one is not one of the standardised Lenins churned out in factories during the Soviet era.

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