1.   Believing gods were pacified by human blood, they killed thousands in human sacrifice.

2.   How can we sit on the sidelines when thousands of innocent civilians are being killed.

3.   The disease has killed thousands of people.

4.   An agreement between an international chemical company and environmentalists may help reduce poisoning that has killed thousands of hawks on the pampas of Argentina in recent years.

5.   An attack like the one that killed thousands of Americans and drew the country into war.

6.   And it was Bosnian Serb soldiers who killed thousands of civilians in cold blood in Srebrenica.

7.   Armenia and Azerbaijan have been fighting for more than five years, reducing villages to rubble, killing thousands and making refugees of hundreds of thousands.

8.   As a proud member of the U.S. Army, Segundo Gacoray survived the infamous Bataan Death March that killed thousands of war prisoners of the Japanese.

9.   Bad water kills thousands of people a year.