1.   Besides the pro-animal efforts, the festival was also used to promote other traditionally liberal political causes.

2.   The first are films that already have a U.S. distributor and hope to use the festival to get off to a fast start.

3.   These veterans shared the stage with lesser-known young talents like Michelle Shocked and Butch Hancock, who used the festival as a springboard to distinguished careers.

4.   Kurds use the festival, known as Newroz, to promote their ethnic culture.

5.   Record labels use the festival as a showcase.

6.   Police regularly clashed with Kurdish demonstrators who used the festival to assert demands for Kurdish rights.

7.   Since then, Palestinian militants have used Purim festivals to exact spectacular acts of revenge, taking dozens of lives.

8.   The Kurds use the festival, known as Newroz, to promote their ethnic culture.