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"massed" Definitions
  1. gathered together in large numbers

399 Sentences With "massed"

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Massed infantry would grind down the enemy in attritional battles.
Predictably, it features mounted troops massed outside the castle walls.
Crowds massed to hear him by the tens of thousands.
This narrative was imparted through an aesthetic of massed shimmer.
Hundreds massed near San Francisco's Ocean Beach every day to hunt.
There were about 100 to 150 people massed at the checkpoint.
Yet he saw no N.V.A., he did not see massed troops.
Syrian government troops massed near Idlib province, the last major rebel stronghold.
Many concerts lasted hours, and featured audience singalongs and massed mariachi bands.
That, and massed clusters of defenders, kept Barcelona scoreless for 22 minutes.
At lunchtime, the crowds massed around them can be several people deep.
Pro-democracy demonstrators have massed throughout Hong Kong for 11 consecutive weekends.
They won it against the massed ranks of the British and global establishment.
Thousands of people have massed at the camps, standing around, hoping for assistance.
Thousands of internally displaced people are now massed on the border with Turkey.
But battle-hardened Shia Arab militias have massed at the edge of the province.
Some lawmakers massed in front of the prison on Wednesday to demand his release.
Police with assault rifles massed at the Poipet border crossing with Thailand on Saturday.
Yemeni forces backed by the Saudi-led coalition have massed on the city's outskirts.
The roar of massed drums turned into W.C. Handy's "Memphis Blues," a Hellfighters favorite.
In Charlottesville, organizers and participants from last year's counterdemonstrations there massed in a park.
Amid the roar of Rossini's massed forces, it casts a sudden, chill-inducing shadow.
Almost 100,000 protesters massed at the Washington Monument, with some marching toward the Lincoln Memorial.
A photograph depicts him sitting, cigar in hand, surveying their massed ranks in the snow.
The attacker then took two women hostage inside the school before confronting police massed outside.
The Turkish government has massed armaments on the Turkish-Iraqi border to combat "terrorist" activity.
You may have seen the chap in the wheelchair trundling on with the massed ranks.
Following his remarks the family stood on the balcony and waved at the massed crowd.
The individual woodwinds have seldom sounded so eloquent, the massed strings warmer and more mellow.
They massed on a hilltop of dirt cut open with row after row of graves.
But what to term all the rest of us who are massed across the center?
He sought treatment at Kings County, but ran off after seeing officers massed out front.
He sought treatment at Kings County, but ran off after seeing officers massed in front.
The Houthis control Hodeidah and troops of a Saudi-led coalition are massed on its outskirts.
Germany's massed ranks of savings and co-operative banks, for example, drive down margins for everyone.
Several hundred are currently massed on the border, according to the Syrian Observatory on Human Rights.
The Congress of Vienna declared him an outlaw, armies massed, and Napoleon soon met his Waterloo.
Tens of thousands of Syrians are currently massed at the Turkish border fleeing regime's Aleppo offensive.
Glenn Branca's electric-guitar symphonies have, for 35 years, dealt out enormous massed gestures of sound.
Sanders supporters massed outside the Metro station near the arena, forcing its shutdown for a time.
During the day, hundreds more had massed at the bridge leading on to the church plaza.
It was summer then, and behind them the massed green of the trees moved in silence.
Less calming was my next stop: Rockefeller Center, massed with tourists gawking at the Christmas tree.
Dancers massed in city council meetings and disrupted press conferences to protest the shuttering of clubs.
At about 11:15, the maitre d'hotel whispered that about 30 photographers were massed outside the hotel.
On Monday traders massed outside parliament to complain about the plunge to record lows of Iran's currency.
Even those massed plastic Chinese legions lie in their packs like tomb soldiers, ready to be deployed.
Few jaguars dare to challenge a massed group of 500kg (1,100-pound) San Martineros, their horns levelled.
Coalition-backed Yemeni forces have massed on the outskirts in an offensive aimed at seizing the seaport.
But it is also about the forces massed behind each of them and sitting in uneasy judgment.
When police forces fired into a massed crowd, more than 20 people died and dozens were wounded.
During Tuesday's' hearing, hundreds of demonstrators massed outside, hoisting placards and chanting in support of the soldier.
The demonstration started with hundreds of protestors massed inside the British Museum's iconic Great Court, facing visitors.
Despite their potency at defeating massed enemies, dragons are fundamentally ineffective at controlling a mass of territory.
The story got national attention, as demonstrators massed, inmates pounded at the windows and lawmakers demanded action.
Then again, maybe the massed ranks of Chinese speculators just haven't been thinking much about copper at all.
In subsequent years both sides massed thousands of troops on the frontier, while arming each other's rebel groups.
On Monday traders had massed outside parliament to complain about the plunge to record lows of Iran's currency.
"And given their history of repression, Chinese troops massed on border is cause for grave concern," he said.
The insurgents in Faryab massed their forces and attacked the base throughout both nights, according to officers there.
The demonstrators discredited that idea when they massed around it brandishing burning torches and chanted white supremacist slogans.
The Burger King was one of a couple dozen corporate chains massed around an off-ramp on Interstate 95.
The protesters massed in the main square and surrounded or blocked entrances to governments buildings and organised sit-ins.
This was nothing short of a moth plague, a massed infestation, a Biblical portent of doom for the world.
You smile politely & try to push yourself into the crowd, but the massed people make no room for you.
Police officers massed around the protesters, who set their barricades on fire and tried to march on Ukraine's Parliament.
The company's ensemble, under the direction of Donald Palumbo, rose to the occasion with massed yet transparent, shimmering singing.
Van Hove turned to the rest of the cast, who were massed on either side of the rehearsal room.
Then the attackers withdrew as the Americans massed mortars and artillery, usually before aircraft strafed hills or dropped bombs.
The massed tourists gazed back curiously; the cinematographer, chummy and nearly six feet two, is a very visible observer.
ON MAY 14th, as Palestinians massed at the Gaza Strip's border, Israeli soldiers fired on them, killing around 60 people.
The witness told Reuters that security forces had massed inside and outside parliament, and that the incident was now over.
In March, during the campaign, large crowds of thousands of protestors massed in Jakarta's streets to call for his imprisonment.
We were both attempting to harness the energy of the massed conjoined complicated emotions were still churning in us both.
At a trading industry conference in Chicago last week, a standing-room-only crowd massed for a panel on cryptocurrencies.
Rumor had it that protesters were being held in a particular police station, and a huge crowd massed outside it.
Malin Christensson and Bernarda Fink are the vocal soloists, with the massed forces of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus behind them.
He defied the massed sniffing prudes of the Comics Code Authority by writing about racism and drug abuse, until they capitulated!
So troops from other West African are massed on the border, ready to come in and and push him out. 5.
But protesters massed around the exits and police advised her group not to try to get through because of safety concerns.
The stadium erupted and, out on Henman Hill, the umbrellas of the fans massed in front of the big screen twirled.
There was no George Martin sound to put beside the lushness of Burt Bacharach or the massed grandiosity of Phil Spector.
The truce has largely held in Hodeidah, controlled by the Houthis with thousands of coalition-backed forces massed on the outskirts.
The team of seven Vietnamese nationals seem to have left the country while scammed investors massed outside the company's old headquarters.
Around her stood flocks of dark-suited dignitaries; below, in the wide avenue called the Mall, a massed crowd waited silently.
Protesters massed near the Capitol and roamed the corridors of the Senate office buildings, pleading with Republican senators to vote no.
As you try to keep track of all the good guys massed against him, you may decide he has a point.
Ms. Merkel expressly backed the 100,000 or so peaceful demonstrators who massed here in recent days and were marching on Saturday.
While the SWAT team was in Tal al-Shaeer, thousands of Golden Division soldiers were massed north and east of Mosul.
Confirmed coronavirus patients showing mild symptoms are being massed together, while suspected cases are being isolated in converted hotels and schools.
The controversy over Trump's dealings with Zelensky have massed into a political and diplomatic watershed, with Ukraine squarely in the center.
Despite the speed of their flight, the UN has been able to reach some of those massed near the Turkish border.
We had it all modeled out, we had it all massed out, this big structure with Scarabs sitting on top of it.
Between 20 and 30 police vans massed around the station with officers wearing balaclavas and carrying assault weapons, a Reuters witness saw.
The militants are massed to the north near the Syrian border and to the south near the Saudi border, biding their time.
It's a reimagining that could only come out of the massed creativity of fans on the internet, rather than a film studio.
In the television footage, Mr Maduro looked befuddled; the massed ranks of the National Guard broke discipline and ran off in panic.
There are those who still fear that massed Russian armor could overrun this tiny nation of 25,000 square miles in 36 hours.
The Korean peninsula has been split by the 4km wide no-go zone since 1953 with millions of troops massed either side.
Residents have reported continued skirmishes, mostly at night, on the outskirts of Hodeidah, where thousands of coalition-backed Yemeni troops have massed.
Working with 54 dancers, Ms. Pite has created massed blocks of movement that focus on large-scale patterning to often thrilling effect.
The most popular definition associated with luxury was high quality, non-massed produced goods, backed up by 42 percent of those asked.
But now he saw the enemy themselves, the true enemy out of their burrows, the N.V.A. massed and swarming on human legs.
It had been publicly reported that Chinese armed police had massed in Shenzhen, a city near Hong Kong on the Chinese mainland.
Shostakovich's grim orchestration of Mussorgsky's four-part "Songs and Dances of Death" had massed solidity here, but little grandeur or dramatic variety.
Photographs on Chinese news websites showed armored vehicles and paramilitary troops massed outside the exhibition center in the aftermath of the violence.
As the white nationalists massed in the park, Ms. Caine-Conley and other members of the clergy locked arms in the street.
The maneuver — a common tactic for a small unit caught in a close-range ambush — failed as the militants massed and counterattacked.
Supporters wearing t-shirts emblazoned with Maduro's face massed in Caracas on Monday, chanting pro-socialist slogans and enjoying subsidized corn patties.
Chants of "Viva Fidel!" resounded as tens of thousands massed in Havana's Revolution Square on Tuesday evening to pay homage to Castro.
As the freezing rain whipped down, the massed ranks saluted in unison as their colleague's body was driven off into the downpour.
He did come in for a while to stand on a table and answer more massed questions and then went out again.
As events developed inside, a crowd of several thousand protesters massed outside the parliament building, blocking all exits and preventing deputies from leaving.
OVER THE WEEKEND • Tens of thousands of Syrians massed at Turkey's border as the Syrian government made territorial gains in the civil war.
Vanishing massed ranks Your special report on the future of war (January 27th) noted the prevalence of urban warfare in the 21st century.
Despite the frigid Moscow temperatures, thousands massed in the streets calling for fair elections and for an end to Putin's seemingly endless rule.
A diplomatic source estimated as many as 70,000 people had massed in Algiers, including a rally at Bab Ezzouar university, the country's biggest.
Each of them is greeted with rapturous applause, as well as the appreciative bleating of air horns and the fluttering of massed flags.
Hundreds of suspicious Lasso supporters massed in front of the electoral council after results were slow to trickle out in February's first round.
As their next game progressed, AlphaStar massed a huge army of stalkers, a mobile unit that has a short teleport ability called blink.
The sinuous sculptures duplicate themselves as cast shadows; the pots, half-invisible in the side room, have the presence of a massed chorus.
His paean to the joy of the sound of scythes being hammered launches a brilliant scene of farmers rhythmically massed in synchronized threshing.
Meanwhile, the New York Philharmonic joins forces with the massed voices of the Westminster Symphonic Choir to perform Handel's "Messiah" (Dec. 11-15).
This is because it is very hard to understand how many stellar-massed black holes could combine together so early in the universe.
Viewers will be invited to consider whether they would have joined in, especially knowing that British soldiers were massed nearby on Staten Island.
Thousands of migrants from Central America have massed along the border of Mexico and the United States — with thousands more on the way.
"As they are massed in the camps, the rate of contamination is very high," said Dr. John Katabuka, director of Bunia's main hospital.
UNHCR spokesman Andre Mahecic said an estimated 40,000 Syrians were massed near the border with Jordan, which already hosts 650,000 registered Syrian refugees.
He was swept up with enthusiasm for the heritage of French grand opera, with its massed choral scenes, romantic effusions and elaborate arias.
The crowds massed on Thursday just beyond the area cordoned off by the police where the summit meetings were scheduled to take place.
It is sometimes sung solo, or in unison by a small group of sopranos, and sometimes by massed sopranos, whether women or boys.
A skewer, planted vertically, holds it all upright, with the tentacles massed at the top, curling upward and suggesting a wild-haired puppet.
The truce has largely held in Hodeidah, which is controlled by the Houthis with thousands of coalition-backed forces massed on the outskirts.
Grant massed his men in front of the Confederate defenses, and the rebels just fired shot after shot of canister into the throngs.
It's a people who are often, as you point out, massed as one these days, in spite of myriad tribal and ethnic groups.
"As they are massed in the camps, the rate of contamination is very high," said Doctor John Katabuka, director of Bunia's main hospital.
Thousands upon thousands of demonstrators who had massed in Cairo's Tahrir Square succeeded in toppling a dictator who had ruled for nearly 286 years.
Machinima, which was founded in 2000 and launched its official YouTube channel in 2006, massed more than 12 million subscribers over the past decade.
Tens of thousands of Syrians fleeing Russian airstrikes massed at the Turkish border, hoping for escape, and more refugees drowned trying to reach Europe.
Coalition forces, currently massed four km from Hodeidah port on the edges of the city, are to retreat one km from two flashpoint districts.
And that might make sense for huge, massive engagements like in Total War, where hundreds of soldiers move in massed formations against one another.
Gheryan was the headquarters for Haftar's forces as they massed for an assault on Tripoli in an attempt to overthrow the U.N.-backed government.
Instead, they massed around Sichun Ma and Bai Baihe, Chinese actresses with pop culture power and small armies of social media followers in China.
The truce has largely held in the city, which is controlled by the Houthis with thousands of coalition-backed forces massed on the outskirts.
A diplomatic source estimated that as many as 70,000 people had massed in Algiers, including a rally at Bab Ezzouar university, the country's biggest.
The security concerns meant Bush himself missed out on an open-carriage parade along the Mall by Buckingham Palace, where hundreds of protesters massed.
Confirmed coronavirus patients showing mild symptoms are being massed together, while those suspected of being infected are being isolated in converted hotels and schools.
When hostilities broke out, it was reported to have massed 20,000 troops and as many as 100 Soviet-made tanks in the border area.
Mr. O'Dell's separation from the S.C.L.C. occurred about seven weeks before an estimated 250,000 people massed in front of the Lincoln Memorial on Aug.
He left only after neighbouring Senegal massed troops on the border and ordered him to hand over power to Adama Barrow, who won the ballot.
As Russia massed its forces on the border with Ukraine, most observers (and participants such as Mr Girkin) expected a swift invasion followed by annexation.
THEY LOOKED like something out of Donald Trump's fever dream: a bunch of burly, bearded, tattooed Latinos massed outside a blood bank wielding metal objects.
Massed protesters shouted "go away" to police and yelled out warnings and made gestures with their hands to send signals to others in the crowd.
Worse yet was the sight of massed thousands marching in a parade for their dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu, or listening to him speak for three hours.
The Saudi-led alliance has yet to verify the redeployment or meet it by pulling back pro-coalition troops massed on the outskirts of Hodeidah.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians massed near Gaza's border fence, threatening to "return" to the lands their forefathers lost when Israel was created in 1948.
Coalition forces, currently massed four km from Hodeidah port on the edges of the city, would retreat one km from "Kilo 8" and Saleh districts.
Afghan security forces massed around the campus, a guarded compound in the western part of the capital, after initial reports of an explosion and gunfire.
After landing, the troops were to capture and secure key roads and bridges so Allied forces massed in Belgium could pour into Germany's industrial heartland.
But their presence quickly stoked anger among right-wing groups, who massed around the migrants Thursday night, throwing small firebombs, shouting slogans and threatening assaults.
As the debate proceeded, crowds massed in Cape Town, the seat of the legislature, to listen to the proceedings, which were streamed and broadcast live.
Over the weekend, tens of thousands of demonstrators massed in the city, many of them defying Lam's invocation of emergency powers to ban face masks.
If massed forces were threatening the vital interests of the United Kingdom or France, then they might have to consider signaling a possible nuclear response.
An AP reporter who was at the scene saw police vehicles with lights flashing massed about a half-mile from the police headquarters on Airline Highway.
The companies have massed up approvals for three major diseases for their drug Dupixent including asthma and nasal polyps since the drug was approved in 2017.
The militants had massed together for what officials described as a "graduation ceremony", and were hit with bombs dropped from fighter jets, which flew several passes.
CHISINAU (Reuters) - Lawmakers voted to overhaul Moldova's electoral system on Thursday, as thousands of opposition activists massed outside saying the changes favored the two largest parties.
While interest in their third child has been more muted, large numbers of photographers and broadcasters massed outside the hospital, along with some dedicated royal fans.
Hundreds of thousands of protesters have massed in recent weeks, demanding an end to corruption and mismanagement, as well as the crony sectarianism that enables it.
In the capital Moroni, groups of youths massed on main roads after polls closed in the early evening, erecting barricades and protesting against the alleged irregularities.
Is it the undulant grain of its massed form that makes It so confidently optimistic: the knowing it will rise again; or is it the togetherness?
Each civilization has strategies that it wants to go for—the Britons have their archers, the Franks their knights, the Goths their massed waves of infantry.
Mr Kim might see it as an attempt to overthrow his regime, and react by raining destruction on Seoul, only 50km away from his massed artillery batteries.
Polish lawmakers were set to defy the European Union and massed opposition protesters by backing a judicial overhaul denounced by critics as a move toward authoritarian rule.
Yet what wasn't captured on the video, unfortunately, were the hordes of Musk-worshippers that massed outside the conference hall for hours leading up to the talk.
We're moved by the story of a man falsely accused – with old prejudice massed against him, and an old sense of honor that rises to his defense.
BAGHDAD — The protesters massed and shouted against Iran again on Thursday in Baghdad's Tahrir Square and elsewhere, much as they have done over the past six weeks.
Arab warplanes and warships pounded Houthi fortifications to support ground operations by foreign and Yemeni troops massed south of the port of Hodeidah in operation "Golden Victory".
They needed to be protected from "Shimmer," a crashing and often tedious piece for massed cymbals, composed and directed by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' drummer, Brian Chase.
These protesters are not like those who massed in Tehran in 2017 in the aftermath of a disputed election that returned hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to power.
It threatens to send a new exodus of refugees to Turkey, where hundreds of thousands of newly displaced Syrians have massed on the border, and perhaps beyond.
At one point an American player, Ladd Howell, recruited because of his experience wrangling rodeo calves, broke away from the massed riders and galloped toward the goal.
Since then, more than 10,000 migrants - mostly from Syria, other Middle Eastern states and Afghanistan - have massed on the Greek border hoping to get to western Europe.
That summer, East Germans began escaping the bloc through Hungary and into Austria, while thousands more massed in Hungary, many at the West German Embassy in Budapest.
It was not a new conversation for Davos attendees, but it had gained urgency with the sense that the pitchforks were then massed at the palace gates.
The coalition had massed thousands of troops near the city on Wednesday, in a move to pressure the Iran-aligned Houthis to return to U.N.-sponsored peace talks.
Officials said the militants had also massed food and weapons in readiness for a long siege, with roughly 600 civilians now stuck in the city despite evacuation efforts.
By doing so, they had built some momentum, starting off their crowdfunding campaign with a slew of backers that massed into more than 8,000 total backers and $627,000.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said about 10,000 demonstrators massed at the border and that some threw burning tires, grenades and explosive devices at the troops across the fence.
The Pie Jesu, written for soprano or treble soloist, was sung here by the massed boys: a nice tribute to their fallen leader, whether or not so intended.
As Qaddafi's troops massed outside Benghazi, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton flew to Paris and met with Mahmoud Jibril, one of the heads of the rebels' leadership council.
This will be more like the first four games of the tournament for Les Bleus, when they had to find a way of breaking down a massed rearguard.
In recent days, regime troops have massed on Idlib's border and leaflets have been dropped on residential areas calling on Syrians to accept "reconciliation" or face the consequences.
Groups that received financial support from the O.S.F. were providing assistance to the refugees massed along Hungary's border, and this became a pretext for Orban's war on Soros.
Police officers later massed on the other side of the bridge, piling out of their vehicles and walking in a long file to the head of the structure.
That is not true of the massed ranks of United loyalists, of course, and nor for some time has it been true of the vast majority of Evertonians.
Mr. Branca's compositions often used massed amplified guitars of various kinds — soprano, alto, tenor and bass — to give his sound the same breadth as that of an orchestra.
In the end, with millions massed in Tahrir Square and other city centers, and even marching to the doorstep of Mubarak's palace, his resignation was announced on Feb.
Police officers later massed on the other side of the bridge, piling out of their vehicles and walking in a long file to the head of the structure.
However, chief White House strategist Steve Bannon said there was "no military solution" to North Korea's nuclear threats because of Pyongyang's massed artillery targeting the South Korean capital.
There was one loud boo from the crowd outside as the smiling couple arrived clutching an umbrella amid rainfall and a blaze of camera flashes from massed photographers.
A field of body parts can loom up like a wave, or remind us of a Tiepolo ceiling in which angels are massed at the edges of clouds.
The thousands of Palestinians massed at the border are in their seventh week of protests calling for the right of return to land that is now part of Israel.
With Israeli tanks massed on the border ahead of the anniversary, Palestinian officials said Egyptian mediators were to meet with protest organizers to urge that Saturday's rally be peaceful.
They addressed demonstrators who have been massed for two days outside the ministry compound and repeated their demand for Bashir and his government to step down immediately, witnesses said.
Meanwhile, Regeneron has been increasingly relying on Dupixent and has massed up approvals for three major diseases including asthma and nasal polyps since the drug was approved in 2017.
The massed pigment of the fabric pattern is absolutely mesmerizing — a cluster of matte colors that, while still reading as paint, feels materially inseparable from the thing it represents.
Israeli forces had massed the other side of the fortified frontier, with tensions already high after a rocket attack from Gaza and Israeli air strikes earlier in the week.
Memo From London LONDON — One day in 2004, Boris Johnson was interrupted on his morning jog by a pack of tabloid reporters massed outside his house in North London.
This time the massed 'tifosi' are again gearing up for a celebration, with the sport's oldest and most glamorous team returning triumphant from Belgium after Charles Leclerc's first victory.
But over the last few days, even as Iraq massed troops in the Kirkuk region, Baghdad insisted it had no plans to carry out a military assault on Kirkuk.
Chinese paramilitary forces — members of the People's Armed Police — have massed at a sports stadium in Shenzhen, just minutes from Hong Kong, and are training for crowd and riot control.
Opposition leaders, addressing protesters massed along the capital's broad main highway, promised to increase the pressure on Mr. Maduro's left-wing government with a 12-hour general strike on Friday.
Kiev — which has an incentive to keep hyping the threat to keep the aid coming — has said that Moscow has massed 40,000 troops in Crimea as a potential invasion force.
Already, the UN reported that 20,000 people were massed at the border with Turkey, while the government in Ankara said that tens of thousands more were headed towards the frontier.
That carefully constructed edifice of power crumbled this week as thousands of protesters massed outside his Khartoum residence, chanting slogans and braving gunfire as rival gangs of soldiers exchanged fire.
The protests were much smaller than on Friday, when thousands of Palestinians massed along the border in what was supposed to be a peaceful demonstration called the March of Return.
CAIRO — When the crowds massed against him at the start of the Arab Spring in January 2011, Hosni Mubarak vowed never to flee his country for an exile in disgrace.
He recalls standing at the mailbox tearing open a college acceptance letter while police cars massed down the block, lights flashing, as a neighbor's son was arrested for dealing drugs.
But clarifying this kind of text-heavy composition is no easy assignment for a massed chorus of amateurs, and words and textures were largely subsumed in a mushy overall sonority.
The fighting affected Hodeidah's usual flashpoints — the "July 7" district, 4 km (2.5 miles) away from the port, and southern outskirts where thousands of United Arab Emirates-backed troops are massed.
As a result, the massed bodies lack the sense of abstraction that Michelangelo brings to his study, one that compresses the soldiers' volumetric forms onto the flatness of the picture plane.
Her powerful, luxuriant voice retained its warmth throughout the evening, with blazing high notes that were never forced or shrill, even when projected over the massed ensembles of orchestra and chorus.
Many in the West were also alarmed by Moscow's war games in September that massed tens of thousands of troops and may have tested electronic warfare on Latvia, NATO officials say.
But the agreement did not spell out who would control Hodeidah city, which is now held by the Houthis while thousands of Saudi-led coalition troops are massed on the outskirts.
Protesters massed in front of the White House, demands for impeachment blared in Congress, and public support for Nixon's resignation quickly jumped from 19 to 38 percent, according to one poll.
Sun Yun, a China expert at the Stimpson Center, told INSIDER that China But as Beijing toughens its rhetorical stance, Chinese People's Armed Police (PAP) units have massed in nearby Shenzhen.
Another 200 protesters massed outside the building, but Mr. Kissinger, who said he was accused of dishonesty and creating an unsafe condition, is the only one known to have been charged.
Lobbyists, many of whom are massed along the K Street corridor downtown just blocks from the White House, see the plan as misguided and argue that it could backfire on him.
Having gleefully picked off a sluggish Russia team that was forced to attack them, they struggled at times against Northern Ireland, unused to being asked to break down a massed defence.
As accuracy improved, commanders could get more massed fire from a handful of fighters with automatic weapons than prior generations could get from entire platoons armed with muskets and early rifles.
A year earlier, at the height of the Arab Spring, young Egyptians had massed in Tahrir Square to press for the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, their president of almost 30 years.
Trinity Wall Street's new-music group, with the help of its massed choirs, concludes its celebration of Leonard Bernstein's 100th birthday with a performance of "Chichester Psalms" led by Julian Wachner.
On Friday at Carnegie Hall, the conductor Leon Botstein leads a rare American performance of "The Apostles," with the American Symphony Orchestra and a massed array of soloists and choral singers.
In the recording, Mr. Baghdadi railed against the Iraqi campaign to recapture Mosul and said the number of troops massed to attack the Islamic State was evidence of the group's strength.
In the wake of Palestinian rocket attacks and Israeli air strikes, Israel said it reserved the right to strike again and kept its troops and tanks massed at the Gaza frontier.
When troops from neighbouring Senegal massed on the Gambian border this week—poised to force out Gambia's dictator, Yahya Jammeh—reports emerged on Thursday night that they had already crossed the frontier.
Far from the generic gothic monster seen in many productions, this Von Rothbart is a truly malign presence, and his puppeteering control of the massed swans is clearly visible in their movements.
" On fighting ISIS Wallace grilled Cruz on how he'd "carpet-bomb" ISIS, noting that it's unlike the Persian Gulf war, when the Iraqi military was "massed by itself in the Kuwaiti desert.
While partiers gathered on the square between Cologne's cathedral and railway station, a large group of young men, later described by the police as "looking North African or Arabic", also massed there.
Almost 90 years later demonstrators, fed up with the murderous kleptocracy of President Ferdinand Marcos, massed in the same park in a display of people power that eventually pushed him into exile.
Fearing both the vagueness of the law's terms and the PRC's well-practiced reading of such laws in the broadest manner possible, Hong Kongers massed in protest and the measure was shelved.
Tueller said he had not given up hope that the deal would be implemented in Hodeidah, where thousands of Yemeni forces backed by the Saudi-led coalition are massed on the outskirts.
Hundreds of protesters carrying Nicaragua's blue and white flag massed in the eastern part of the capital in the morning after squads of police prevented the demonstrators from reaching the city center.
Instead, the city descended into unprecedented chaos on Monday, as protesters demonstrating against a controversial extradition bill stormed the government headquarters, and police cleared protesters massed outside with tear gas and batons.
In particular, he planted palms — more than 2,700 trees, representing nearly 500 species, resulting in one of the largest palm collections in the world — their massed common names reading like found poetry.
KHARTOUM, Sudan — As protesters massed at the gates of Sudan's military headquarters, calling for the ouster of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, the country's Air Force chief stepped outside to address them.
Even if you think you know how exciting a Balanchine massed-ranks finale can be, the one that ends "Bourrée" proves yet more intense than others, with astounding shifts of geometric formations.
Several police officers conceded that they felt more comfortable deployed in the Hindu crowd that had gathered at one end of the buffer zone than with the Muslims massed at the other.
Turkish troops have already massed inside the Idlib region and more were heading to the border area, bringing NATO member Turkey and Russian-backed Syria close to the brink of direct confrontation.
The UAE, which controls military bases in the coastal towns of al-Khokha and al-Mokha, has massed thousands of Yemeni forces on the outskirts of Hodeidah, the Houthis' main supply line.
Seoul is home to a population of roughly 10 million, within range of massed pre-targeted North Korean rockets and artillery, which would be impossible to destroy in a first U.S. strike.
The Stockholm Hodeidah truce largely holds but the withdrawal has yet to materialize amid deep mistrust between the Houthi movement, which controls Hodeidah, and the Saudi-led coalition massed on its outskirts.
There has been no comment so far from the Saudi-led Sunni Muslim military coalition that has massed forces outside Houthi-held Hodeidah, which handles the bulk of Yemen's imports and aid supplies.
SEVENTY-TWO Turkish fighter jets cut through the skies above north-west Syria on January 20th, dropping bombs on the Kurdish enclave of Afrin, while thousands of Turkish troops massed at the border.
The Saudi-led coalition has massed thousands of troops near Yemen's main port city of Hodeidah, local military sources said on Wednesday, in a move to pressure the Houthis to return to talks.
" Chimes, an orchestra and massed voices arrive almost immediately in "Spirits," the album's first single, which declares, "I don't want a never-ending life/I just want to be alive while I'm here.
The embassy opening celebration occurred even as Israeli security forces were doing battle with Palestinian protesters, killing more than 50 of some 35,000 who massed at the border separating Gaza and Israeli territory.
Grande orchestrates her songs with all that her voice can do, from solo acrobatics to massed harmonies; her stripped-down instrumentation is a matter of self-sufficient bravado that fully underscores her lyrics.
Poland's upper house of parliament was expected to pass a bill allowing parliament to appoint Supreme Court judges later on Friday, defying massed opposition protesters and the European Union, which has threatened sanctions.
Huge numbers massed at the terminal following an alleged case of police brutality, when a young woman appeared to have been shot in the eye with a beanbag round during a separate demonstration.
France, which maintains a military garrison in Burkina Faso, scrambled to respond to the siege, sending 30 of its soldiers to assist at least 40 from Burkina Faso's military who massed outside the hotel.
Some 200 protesters massed at a barricade across the street from parliament on Monday as new senators were sworn into office, with about half denouncing Philippe's arrest with slogans, T-shirts and waving signs.
" Adds royal naval reserve Captain Brian Thorne, 63, who as a 0003 year old sung in a massed choir when Charles visited a chapel in Swansea 50 years ago: "It's poignant that he's here.
On Wednesday, thousands of Yemenis massed in Saada city, calling for the prosecution of the Saudi-led military coalition over the air strike on the bus, which drew horrified reactions from around the world.
In the hours after the gunmen appeared, hundreds of police officers massed outside the restaurant compound's walls, but an attempted raid was repulsed by a grenade, killing two officers and injuring more than 20.
He turned a full 180 degrees, from the massed ranks of the home support at his back to the pocket of Swansea fans on his right, as though sweeping every inch of the stadium.
Military leaders have scrambled to alter the force's behavior to insulate their troops, but the nature of the military, that of a massed force working in close quarters, is a limitation on those efforts.
South Korea: Huge crowds of conservatives have been gathering in Seoul to denounce Justice Minister Cho Kuk, while progressives have massed to defend him after he was tasked with overhauling the national prosecutors' office.
And then the men begin falling, one, two, three, until just the unbuckling one remains, scrambling first over a gate and soon onto a beach where thousands of other soldiers are massed and waiting.
The most common tactic used by Puerto Rican police during the July protests was the deployment of tear gas against the crowds massed on Calle Fortaleza, a shopping street that leads toward the mansion.
The 252-page report alleges that 183 Gaza residents, massed with thousands of others in a protest at the border with Israel in March 2018, were killed by live ammunition fired by Israeli soldiers.
Alliance leaders Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have yet to verify the Houthi pullout or respond to it by pulling back pro-coalition troops that are massed on the edges of Hodeidah.
LONDON (Reuters) - President Hassan Rouhani's trip to the coal mine in northern Iran was all going to plan, until the crowd massed in front of his car chanting "it's a day of mourning for workers".
CIVIL WAR BATTLEFIELD DISCOVERY: SURGEON&aposS BURIAL PIT REVEALS SOLDIERS&apos REMAINS, AMPUTATED LIMBS In the film, Roosevelt grabs a railing with his left hand before waving to the massed crowds with his right hand.
When she solemnly condemned a new Internet age right-wing movement as part of Trump's 'basket of deplorables', the massed online ranks of the target of her comments collectively erupted in memes, mockery and celebration.
For all the positive play in the opening 20 minutes, during which they took the lead through Kane, they wasted a series of chances and then lacked the ability to open up a massed defense.
The Houthis control most population centers in Yemen, including Hodeidah - with coalition forces massed on its outskirts - and the capital Sanaa, from which the group ousted the government of Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi in 2014.
That was how it stayed as England struggled to break down the resilient north Africans, before they finally found a way through the massed defensive ranks when Kane swiveled to head home in added time.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has massed his army and allied forces on the frontlines in the northwest and on Tuesday Russian planes joined his bombardment of rebels there, the prelude to a possible assault.
The protests came as hundreds of protesters massed around the Capitol and Supreme Court on Saturday ahead of the expected vote to confirm Kavanaugh, chanting and carrying signs urging senators to vote against his nomination.
KIEV (Reuters) - Standing on stage in a black t-shirt, Ukrainian rock star Sviatoslav Vakarchuk turns to his massed ranks of fans and asks if they are fed up about how their country is run.
Heartbeats, heavy breathing, gunshots, the barking of dogs, massed whispers, weeping, synthesized strings, fragments of spirituals and gospel moans come up against passages of tortured text by Mr. Harris (some of it sampling Kendrick Lamar).
But on the previous evening the original gathering place for that stream had been filled by tanks and soldiers, so people massed about a half mile northeast, outside the headquarters of the Democratic Action Party.
The coalition has yet to verify the withdrawal or meet it by pulling back its own forces massed on the edges of Hodeidah ahead of a wider redeployment by both sides in a second phase.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has massed his army and allied forces on the frontlines in the northwest, and Russian planes have joined his bombardment of rebels there, in a prelude to a possible assault.
Both the Iranian-aligned Houthi movement which controls Hodeidah, and the Saudi-led coalition that has massed troops on its outskirts, accused one another of opening fire on the convoy of retired Dutch general Patrick Cammaert.
And then the execution of that standoff — the massed zombies plunging through the ice; the rest of the army forming a silent, patient ring around their targets; the long, cold wait — was so effective and intense.
But with 20,000 Syrian refugees massed on Jordan's northeastern border, aid officials say it is unlikely those fleeing the violence in Daraa would head towards the kingdom, instead moving to towns and villages within the province.
The Iran-aligned Houthi movement controls the Red Sea city, now a focus of the war, while other Yemeni factions backed by a Saudi-led coalition loyal to the ousted government are massed on the edges.
BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's judicial watchdog rejected on Tuesday an application by the justice minister to sack the country's main anti-corruption prosecutor, bolstering her case days after protesters massed in the streets to support her work.
Earlier this year, French authorities dismantled the southern half of the camp, where thousands of migrants fleeing war or poverty in the Middle East, Africa and Asia have massed, hoping to make their way to Britain.
My daughter, who was along to take the snaps, is a seasoned festival-goer; she said it was the same at many of the other massed loud-music gatherings that nowadays bedizen the British summer months.
DUBAI, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Iranians massed in central Tehran on Tuesday for the funeral of former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in a show of unity to honour the Islamic Republic's polarising pragmatist.
" She was describing a way of dressing, and a state of mind, that rising numbers of retailers are scrambling to distill, a make-it-up-as-you-go fashion moment massed under the rubric "festival style.
Iran was at odds with the Taliban for most of the time the group ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, and massed troops on the border in 1998 after 11 of its diplomats were killed there.
RUSSONELLO Working toward self-forgiveness after a divorce, "Moral of the Story" seesaws between fragility and pomp: from Ashe's quavery high voice and parlor-song piano tinkling to a hefty, lurching beat and a massed chorus.
Parts of Tehran's Grand Bazaar were on strike for the second day running, state media reported, after traders massed outside parliament on Monday to complain about a sharp fall in the value of the national currency.
These sorts of things are still fairly uncommon and the fact that it works at all should do much to improve the growth of DIY electronics and even reduce the energy needed to solder PCBs en massed.
While interest in their third child has been more muted than with the birth of their first, large numbers of photographers and broadcasters from around the globe massed outside the hospital, along with some dedicated royal fans.
On May 10, 85033, nearly one month after the first shots of the American Revolution were fired at Lexington and Concord, New York City supporters of declaring independence from Britain massed to vent their frustration and anger.
It's a process that could tear the United Kingdom apart given pro-Europe sentiment in Scotland, and represents its gravest national challenge since Adolf Hitler's armies massed on the other side of the English Channel in 1940.
But where Garrick's ode was focused on himself, this was a true community piece, written after the example of the indestructible (although meticulously fashioned) massed-voice scores that Benjamin Britten wrote for church performance in the 1950s.
China has massed troops near the Hong Kong border amid the protests, which have turned violent at times and have brought the city's airport to a standstill, increasing fears a Tiananmen-style crackdown is on the horizon.
As Sudan's military announced at lunchtime on Thursday that it had finally unseated President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, a brief burst of joy exploded outside the military headquarters in Khartoum where huge throngs of protesters had massed.
KASTANIES, Greece (Reuters) - Teargas and smoke bombs clouded a border crossing between Greece and Turkey on Saturday as tensions persisted over thousands of migrants massed at the frontier trying to force their way into the European Union.
The Saudi-led coalition has massed thousands of troops near Yemen's main port city of Hodeidah, local military sources said on Wednesday, in a move to pressure Iranian-aligned Houthi insurgents to return to U.N.-sponsored peace talks.
Hundreds of supporters massed outside the Barcelona court to protest against the hearing, to which speaker Carme Forcadell had been summoned as part of a pre-trial investigation on charges of contempt of court and neglect of duty.
TIJUANA (Reuters) - Hundreds of Central American migrants in Mexico massed on Thursday around a tense U.S. border crossing, where security measures held up long lines of Mexicans headed to Thanksgiving gatherings on the other side of the frontier.
In February and March authorities dismantled the southern half of the camp, where thousands of migrants and refugees fleeing war or poverty in the Middle East, Africa and Asia have massed, hoping to make their way to Britain.
The guards took names, phone numbers, addresses, and information about their church membership, and the group stood massed in the cold, while well-adjusted-looking young families in their church best filed onto the square for Sunday services.
"You clamored when 50,000 refugees came to Kapikule, and started wondering what would happen if the border gates were opened," Erdogan said in a speech in Istanbul, referring to a Bulgarian border checkpoint where migrants massed last year.
President Hassan Rouhani promised Iranians the government would be able to handle the economic pressure of new U.S. sanctions, a day after traders massed outside parliament, protesting against a sharp fall in the value of the national currency.
The momentum turned against ISIS for a number of reasons: US airstrikes disrupted its ability to conduct massed offensives, Iraqi forces adapted to the group's tactics, and stepped-up resistance from Syrian Kurds pressed the group in Syria.
The outcome of the battle, and much of its mechanics, suggest that the Russian mercenaries and their Syrian allies were in the wrong part of the world to try a simple, massed assault on an American military position.
China massed troops along Hong Kong's border and issued angry broadsides, insinuating a devious American plot behind the "terrorism" of the protesters, but clearly preferred to leave the dirty work to Hong Kong authorities and the local police.
BAGHDAD — For 12 weeks, Iraqi protesters have massed in the streets of Baghdad and cities in southern Iraq to demand the ouster of the government, an end to corruption and a halt to the overweening influence of Iran.
The UAE has massed thousands of Yemeni forces — drawn from southern separatists, local units from the Red Sea coastal plain and a battalion led by a nephew of late former president Ali Abdullah Saleh — on the outskirts of Hodeidah.
Injury-prone 2009 U.S. Open champion Juan Martin Del Potro led a spectacular final day comeback against the hosts that delighted the massed ranks of Argentine fans, including soccer legend Diego Maradona, who witnessed the final at Arena Zagreb.
Fresh from Brazil, where he won Sunday's race and Mercedes completed a record-equalling fifth consecutive constructors' and drivers' title double, the Briton thanked the massed men and women driving the team's success and set his sights on more.
There is an urgent need to address the refugee crisis: Thousands of people are massed in horrible conditions on the now-closed border between Macedonia and Greece, and thousands arrive every week, threatening a humanitarian catastrophe on European soil.
If its frenetic, sepulchral rumbling on the cello's lowest string — or the riotous, frankly impossible cacophony of massed, warring trumpets in "Die Soldaten," his sole opera — is not representative of growling hounds of hell, no music ever will be.
The closer you get to the extreme kinds of metal, the deeper you look and listen, the more the lettering appears drippy and cryptographical, the more the music sounds smeared and scratched, or massed and indistinct, or too fast to register.
The Houthis control Hodeidah, the main entry point for the bulk of Yemen's commercial and aid imports, while other Yemeni forces backed by the Saudi-led coalition loyal to ousted President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi are massed on the outskirts.
Hodeidah, currently held by the Houthis with thousands of coalition forces massed on the outskirts, became the focus of the war last year, raising fears that a full-scale assault could cut off supply lines and lead to mass starvation.
One resident told Reuters he could hear the sound of missiles and automatic gunfire in the direction of the eastern 7th July suburb of the Houthi-held city, on whose outskirts Yemeni forces backed by a Saudi-led coalition have massed.
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ADEN (Reuters) - The Saudi-led coalition has massed thousands of troops near Yemen's main port city of Hodeidah, local military sources said on Wednesday, in a move to pressure Iranian-aligned Houthi insurgents to return to U.N.-sponsored peace talks.
Since the protests began in December, Sudanese-Americans — many young and American-born — have held online fund-raisers and sent money through social-media apps to buy food, medicine and water for the thousands of demonstrators massed in Sudan's capital, Khartoum.
The United Nations said Sunday that at least 13,000 people were massed on Turkey's land border with Greece, Erdogan did not explicitly link his decision to open the gates to Europe to the military escalation in Syria's northwestern Idlib province.
The alliance has massed thousands of Yemeni troops in recent days near the heavily-defended port, but a source in the coalition told Reuters there are no immediate plans for an assault on the city, a lifeline for millions of Yemenis.
Crowds massed in the capital and seven towns in rallies organized by 'For A Decent Slovakia' - a group of mostly students and NGOs which has organized a string of demonstrations against Fico and says it has no link to the opposition.
The larger issue is that while dragons are an incredibly potent tool for defeating massed armies and forcing the formal surrender of foreign political elites, as she herself learned in Meereen, they're less good at executing a program of social reform.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has massed his army and allied forces on the front lines in the northwest, and Russian planes have joined his bombardment of rebels there, in a prelude to a widely expected assault despite objections from Turkey.
But if it pulls out of the union, it will have no more say on European migration policies and no right to help in policing the tunnel entrance in Calais, France, where thousands of migrants trying to reach its shores have massed.
U.N. envoy Martin Griffiths said both parties would withdraw "within days" from the port, a main entry point for most of Yemen's commercial imports and aid supplies, and later from the city of Hodeidah, where coalition troops have massed on the outskirts.
Even the way in which Amazon was awarded the sites for their various HQ2s is indicative of the power massed by the tech behemoth; the entire spectacle was essentially local governments jockeying to subsidize displacement-causing gentrification with money from their own taxpayers.
That help, in the form of new clarifications of how the deal would work or perhaps even small tweaks to agreed text, will not convince the massed ranks of May's opponents, who see the deal as either too much Brexit or too little.
Flush with increased oil and gas revenues for much of the past decade, Russian forces have significantly improved, mixing modern means such as unmanned aerial vehicles and cyberattacks with traditional "Red Army" strengths such as political and electronic warfare, armor and massed firepower.
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian-aligned Houthi forces have agreed to draw back from two Yemeni ports on Monday while withdrawal from the main Hodeidah port will occur later alongside a retreat by coalition-backed forces massed outside the city, U.N. and Yemeni sources said.
The clashes in Idomeni, which follow several confrontations there in the last month, came as members of the Greek far-right party Golden Dawn have begun marching in several areas around Greece where migrants are camped or massed at informal gathering points.
Throughout the war, Grant also seems to have grasped another basic truth—that while Civil War weaponry, large and small alike, was utterly lethal when massed together, it was, when fired singly at specific moving targets, as likely to miss as to hit.
After Europe sealed the border in February to curb the unceasing stream, the Greek authorities relocated many of those massed in Idomeni to a camp on this wind-beaten agricultural plain in northern Greece, with promises to process their asylum bids quickly.
Instead, a penetrating silence enveloped Paris on Sunday morning as thousands of people across the city massed under a leaden sky for the anniversary of the deadliest terrorist attacks in France's postwar history, a year to the day after they shook the nation.
They massed in big numbers this week, and in some places did more than disrupt traffic—in Durham, North Carolina, for instance, protesters pulled down a state of a Confederate soldier, defying a 2015 state law that bans the removal of such monuments.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli troops shot and wounded 10 Palestinians on the Gaza border on Friday, Gaza medical officials said, as Israeli tanks massed on the eve of a huge rally to mark the first anniversary of the start of the deadly protests.
Protesters massed outside the government palace in downtown Beirut and marched on the presidential palace in Baabda, blocked the airport road and burned posters of politicians from Tripoli in the north to Tyre in the south — Christians, Muslims and religious minorities alike.
"We are having people coming in through the border that are not people that we want," the candidate adds, against images of Lionel Messi and other top Argentine players descending from a plane and fans massed in national blue-and-white colors.
Wearing pink, pointy-eared hats to mock the new president, tens of thousands of women massed in the nation's capital and other cities around the globe Saturday for marches and demonstrations aimed at showing Donald Trump they won't be silent over the next four years.
All border traffic was halted on Sunday at the busy crossing between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency said, as hundreds of Central American migrants massed at the border intending to apply for asylum in the United States.
South Korea is on heightened alert ahead of another important anniversary in the reclusive North that could be the trigger for a new nuclear test or launch of ballistic missiles, with a large concentration of military hardware massed on both sides of the border.
The cul-de-sac was separated from a busy county highway by a chain-link fence and a drainage ditch; highway traffic massed there behind a red light—on this day, a garbage truck, an old brown sedan, a pickup flying a tattered Confederate flag.
Thomas Waidhauser, commander of the US Africa Command According to the report, when militants on motorcycles and pickup trucks "massed and began to envelop" the smaller team, attacking them with small arms and rocket-propelled grenade launchers, the US and Nigerien troops initially engaged.
Meanwhile, the ruling Aliyev family, buoyed by massed oil wealth off its Caspian shore, has gutted the country's internal finances, constructing, as the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists wrote last year, "an empire of hidden wealth," new tentacles of which investigators are continually discovering.
For decades, any new prime minister has been expected to take part in a somewhat contrived set-piece of waving to the massed ranks of the media on crossing the threshold of No.10 for the first time - with a spouse, and perhaps their children.
CAIRO — The lone protester stood in an affluent corner of Egypt's capital on Sunday, nearly an hour's drive from the downtown square where tens of thousands had massed in 2011 to denounce the country's strongman leader in the heady days of the Arab Spring.
A game of chicken has ensued, as the president has pretty well held his following in the country against the frenzied assault of his massed media enemies, while three-quarters of Americans despise the Congress as tainted and ineffectual windbags wallowing in the public trough.
Over a thousand leftist protesters massed near a giant statue of Karl Marx in Chemnitz on Monday evening to protest attacks on foreigners that occurred during an impromptu demonstration on Sunday after reports spread on social media about the stabbing of a 35-year-old German man.
"Baba [Vanga] said to me, 'Daughter, you're in this world to help people and to help people, and all the world will know about you and talk to you,'" Vanya—dressed in a floral dress with neat auburn hair, tanned fingers massed with gold jewelry—says.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Inmates who seized control of the main prison in the Syrian city of Hama feared a massacre on Monday night as security forces massed outside and the city's police chief, trapped inside, tried to mediate between them and the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
In the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, when Israeli commanders ordered an attack after Egyptian forces massed on the border, "many people thought it was reasonable for Israel to conclude an attack was imminent," said Ashley S. Deeks, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law.
Over a thousand leftist protesters massed near a giant statue of Karl Marx in Chemnitz on Monday evening to protest attacks on foreigners that occurred during an impromptu demonstration on Sunday after reports spread on social media about the stabbing of a 35-year-old German man.
For much of the afternoon, thousands of Palestinians massed a few hundred yards from the fence, cheering and chanting like fans in a soccer stadium, applauding protesters who defied the Israelis, and jeering the Israelis' firing of tear gas canisters, as if to say it couldn't harm them.
For decades, the new prime minister has been expected to take part in the somewhat contrived set-piece of giving a cheery wave to the massed ranks of the media on crossing the threshold of No.10 for the first time - with a spouse, and perhaps their children.
Hosting a noisy, disruptive protest—not to mention the massed ranks of press, radio, and TV—in a prime central London location, outside a closed restaurant, is pretty terrible PR, perhaps especially so for a business that trades on an aesthetic of carefully modeled ruin-porn authento-hipsterism.
New York Fashion Week: An Oral History As New York Fashion Week approaches its 75th year (the first official shows, massed under the heading of Press Week, were held in 1943), with 151 shows spread over nine days, many designers are questioning the future of this semiannual gathering.
"Should the situation in the DMZ area change dramatically, we should be prepared to introduce weapons of greater effectiveness against massed forces," General Westmoreland wrote in a cable that was declassified in 2014 but did not come to light until Mr. Beschloss cited it in his forthcoming book.
Hong Kong police fired tear gas and high-pressure water hoses against protesters who had massed outside government headquarters Wednesday in opposition to a proposed extradition bill that has become a lightning rod for concerns over greater Chinese control and erosion of civil liberties in the semiautonomous territory.
WASHINGTON — With hundreds of high school students massed at the Capitol to demand gun control, the House instead approved modest legislation on Wednesday to beef up school security without changes to the nation's gun laws, hoping to answer demands for action a month after the massacre in Parkland, Fla.
"So this is how the new interior minister gets going, and the minister of justice, this is what they are doing in this country, to intimidate, and to frighten," Mr. Mélenchon, wearing the patriotic red white and blue official sash, shouted to supporters who had massed in the street.
The patrons massed and flowed on the other side of a rope line, some thirty yards from the porch; in the space between stood an immense oak, its trunk some twenty feet in circumference, its branches cabled up and sprawling into a canopy that created a swath of shade.
Louis Vuitton, fall 2020Credit...Valerio Mezzanotti for The New York Times PARIS — That the final day of Paris Fashion Week was also a Mardi Noir — a Black Tuesday, with massed demonstrators marching furiously across the Place de la Concorde to the National Assembly to protest pension reform — seemed inevitable.
Xi was driven through Pyongyang in a convertible car, standing with Kim at his side, and greeted warmly by massed, cheering crowds on his way to the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, a complex that serves as the mausoleum for North Korea's founder, Kim Il Sung, the report said.
This style, often seen by historians as a combination of the emerging Arts and Crafts movement and 19th-century eclecticism, is known for its extensive use of shingles as a building material and its multi-massed (massing is a fancy word for a building's three-dimensional forms) architectural complexity.
Unlike Prince William and his wife Kate, who posed for massed photographers outside a London hospital just hours after their three children were born, Harry and Meghan are expected to take part in only a limited photo call in the grounds of Windsor Castle in the next couple of days.
Hundreds of local residents massed in the public square, under banners denouncing the "crime of severely obstructing social-administrative order" and urging people to pursue "rational efforts in seeking unpaid wages", as judges and prosecutors gave those gathered what they called an "education in the law," according to state media.
His film "Sobibor: October 14, 1943" exulted in the escape of Jews from an extermination camp, and two other films celebrated Israel, both its founding and, in "Tsahal", its defence forces, which he saw through a lens of proud joy at their youth, beauty, massed weaponry and reappropriation of violence.
Involving Ex Cathedra — one of Britain's very best choirs, based in nearby Birmingham — with the actor Sam West; The City Musick, a period band; and massed children's voices, it was an event created in the spirit of the grand outpourings of collective praise for great men that historically were common practice.
While residents in Alaska and Hawaii are just waking up to the possibility of living within range of a North Korean missile, South Koreans for years have been exposed to thousands of artillery massed an hour's drive or so from the border, in addition to short-range missiles and bombs.
The team, led by Richard Teague, an astronomer at the University of Michigan, found a pair of Jupiter-massed protoplanets located 7.4 billion miles (12 billion km) and 13 billion miles (21 million km) from the host star—that's 80 and 140 times the distance from the Earth to the Sun (AU), respectively.
People no longer have to sleep on the streets, but conditions inside these makeshift camps are bleak: Thousands of men, women and children live massed together, with little access to basic services like clean toilets and showers, often forced to queue for hours for a bowl of soup and a piece of bread.
Yet amid the acrimony, leaders in Baghdad and the Kurdish strongholds of Erbil and Sulimaniyah have also been exchanging almost daily phone calls, hoping to hash out solutions to problems exacerbated by that vote — and to get thousands of federal and Kurdish troops massed within each others' sight lines to stand down.
When the Marines were massed on the beach and started to move forward slowly through the volcanic ash, they were shocked to learn the hard way that the Japanese had every inch of the beach sighted in and had to race off the beach while under intense artillery, mortar, and machine-gun fire.
Lots of critics pointed out that the coda of "Star Wars," when three heroes march up a corridor between columns of massed soldiers, is a visual quote of the wreath-laying at Nuremberg in "Triumph of the Will," but everyone seems to assume this is a random allusion, devoid of historical context.
The drug, which accounts for more than half of total revenue, is expected to lose its patents in the next five years To reduce its reliance on Eylea, Regeneron is focusing on Dupixent and has massed up approvals for three major diseases including asthma and nasal polyps since the drug was approved in 2017.
Secular Buddhists try to, just as people who are sympathetic to the ethical basis of Christianity try to tiptoe past the doctrines of Heaven and Hell, so that Hell becomes "the experience of being unable to love," or Heaven a state of "being one with God"—not actual places with brimstone pits or massed harps.
These broadcasts are reportedly considered highly insulting in Pyongyang, because they are damaging to the dignity of leader Kim Jong Un. When South Korea bombarded its neighbor with broadcasts of propaganda and pop music last August, North Korea massed troops at the border and unleashed artillery fire, in the two countries' most serious skirmish in some time.
The painting, a narrow, horizontal rectangle (93 ½ by 66 inches), is divided into four discrete sections, each covered in a different color and texture: massed graphite lines; swipes of gray wash; flatly applied green monochrome; and a swarm of dense, black brushstrokes, which could just as well be thumbprints, with flecks of the white ground peeking through.
At restaurants across the country, raw vegetables have suddenly been thrust to the forefront as bravura opening gambits to a meal, massed on great wooden boards (as at Clever Rabbit in Chicago) and rising from giant terracotta urns, with stalks reaching higher than diners' heads, evoking feathers in a war bonnet (at Santina in New York).
Dr. Stimson went on to note that those World War I soldiers who had grown up in more isolated, usually rural circumstances, were less likely to be immune to the childhood diseases, and "when thousands of these rural young men are first massed together in army camps, contagious diseases are apt to be very common," he said.
And Kei Ninomiya at Noir, growing body topiaries out of massed blood-red feathers, tulle, fake fur and flamenco ruffles; looping thin gold filaments so they trembled like sensors around the body; hiding a few lovely black shirtdresses underneath (yes, he makes wearable clothes too); and building birds of paradise out of many shades of … faux Scottish beards?
The Paranoid Style: Rolling Disclosure (Bar/None) On the scene-setting "The Ambassador's Morning Lift," a term Google tells me denotes a punch comprising egg nog, rum, cognac, and creme de cacao, massed guitars—three gang up live—are juiced a dozen seconds later by a busy bass line that quickly buries all hope of indie decorum.
More on Hong Kong's protests: China appears to be gearing up for a possible military intervention in Hong Kong, but experts say Beijing is likely bluffingSatellite photos show more than 100 Chinese military vehicles massed at a soccer stadium near the Hong Kong borderVideo: Hong Kong protesters belt out 'Do You Hear The People Sing?' from 'Les Misérables' during airport takeover
"I feel lost and found/At the same damn time," she muses elsewhere on the album, which consolidates all the elements of her style: massed vocal harmonies, evoking choral evensong as often as Brian Wilson; stark rhythmic drive, suggesting funk grooves stripped to their essence; and a self-affirming but worldly perspective, in which words like "hope" come with a call to action.
USA-IMMIGRATION U.S.-Mexico border crossing closed after migrant protest halted in Tijuana TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - The United States halted all border traffic on Sunday at the busy crossing between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico, as Mexican police cracked down on a protest on behalf of Central American migrants massed at the border and intending to apply for asylum in the United States.
Mr. Obama, the secretary of state said, underestimated the scourge of radical Islam; declined to stand up to the mullahs in Iran, even as they brutally cracked down on protesters; turned the other way while the militants of Hezbollah massed rockets against Israel; and did nothing after President Bashar al-Assad of Syria used sarin gas against his own people.
Producer Kontrix's beats — which combine synthesized strings, power chords, sinister showoff lead guitar, giant slabs of slammed electronic boom, and, on "Metal Rising," a massed choir — recall prior hip-hop accompaniment less than they do Kavinsky, the Star Wars soundtrack (prequels only) interpreted for synthesizer, and any music imbued with the sort of grandiosity whereby a hero has only four minutes to save the world.
The U.S. health regulator approved GW Pharmaceuticals' epilepsy treatment, making it the first cannabis-based drug to win approval in the country and opening floodgates for more research into the medicinal properties of cannabis World President Hassan Rouhani promised Iranians the government would be able to handle the economic pressure of new U.S. sanctions, a day after traders massed outside parliament to protest at a sharp fall in the value of the national currency.
His cloud constructions have made the same imaginative leap that Gehry's built architecture began to make with the design of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and of the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles: a spring from the basics of post-and-lintel carpentry to building with abstract planes, each one unique, massed together to create spaces that are never hollow; instead, energy seems to funnel through them like an invisible liquid.

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