Sentences with phrase «draw thousands of members»

Perhaps that is the reason why it continues to draw thousands of members every day.

Not exact matches

The images of resistance, confrontation, and camaraderie have drawn thousands of tribal members and supporters to frontline demonstrations that have turned ugly.

In association was strength, so these societies drew on the strength of hundreds of thousands of members.

Certainly there is a tradition that the defeated heretical monks held a rival council of ten thousand members, known as the Great Council, and drew up a different recension of the scriptures which among other things, according to the Dipavamsa, 1 «broke up the sense and doctrine in the five Nikayas,» and «rejecting some portions of the Sutta and the profound Vinaya, they made another counterfeit Sutta and Vinaya.»

With the Lisbon Treaty, the member states of the European Union (EU) established a European External Action Service (EEAS), otherwise known as the «European foreign service», consisting of several thousand officials drawn from the EU institutions and national diplomatic offices.

The two labor leaders were in town for a lobby day that drew thousands of union members to Albany to protest the governor's proposal to create a sixth pension tier, which they insist will reduce retirees benefits by 40 percent.

Reflections by more than twenty of Owens's fellow artists, collaborators, assistants, dealers, family members, and friends are accompanied by a rich trove of more than a thousand images drawn from the artist's personal archive.