Black Friday 2011 is pretty much over, and in spite of all the talk about and boycotting, people came out in hordes.
Machu Picchu and the Inca Trail in Peru similarly suffered from hordes of tourists, who brought in trash, pollution and damaged the sites.
There isn't much the troops can do in the face of hordes of rebel armies, let alone the Sudanese government troops.
Other days, as when a (false) rumour crackles through a nearby slum that 100-rupee notes will be dished out to those who sign up, hordes pour in.
You can have a game in which you slaughter hordes upon hordes of enemies only to suddenly cut to a pre-rendered scene where one simple bullet takes your avatar down for the count.
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In the hands of hordes of amateur experts around the world (Britain's army of ornithologists, for example) it could be used to assess the impact of climate change on many habitats and species.
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At other entrances, soldiers fought to hold back hordes of men in their turbans, kilt-like skirts and curved daggers.
This transition (documented in real-time by hordes of tech scribes) will unfold over many quarters, and Oracle may ultimately emerge stronger than ever.
The pace of business was slower, lack of internet popularity prevented hordes of competition in the space and, as a result recruiters could retain and form lasting relationships with clients easier.
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The prospect of way more kids puts us in mind of Dickensian England, where teeming, filthy hordes of ugly, unhealthy urchins scrambled grotesquely for survival and advantage in a deeply unjust lifeworld.
The hordes of Russian shoppers in search of consumer electronics have long since dwindled to a trickle.
Over the past few months hordes of option holders in a similar fix have been desperately seeking help.
You walk into the cafes and restaurants in the area and you see hordes of people exchanging ideas.
The usual paraphernalia of Russian demonstrations went with them: malfunctioning metal detectors, hordes of riot police in rickety buses.
Straphangers in public conveyances can only travel in groups, moving along with hordes of strangers according to schedules imposed by others.
In a speech marking an anniversary of the last Gulf war, Iraq's ruler likened George Bush to Hulagu Khan, the leader of the Mongol hordes who razed Baghdad in 1258 (though the Americans would fall at the gates of the city, he said, not capture its ruler, roll him in a carpet and have their cavalry ride over it, or build pyramids of Muslim skulls, as Hulagu did).
Now the Germans are scrambling to seal off this hole in their fence before Murdoch's hordes pour through it.
Women tend to dress smartly and soberly, in part to differentiate themselves from the hordes of garishly dressed would-be starlets.
It's a sad certainty: Mere months, if not weeks, after the hordes leave the Olympic village in Beijing, most of the competitors--even the medalists--will slip from international consciousness.
There may have been eager hordes waving their credit cards in Oxford Street but at west London's Kensington branch, not many more than 50 shoppers queued patiently for the store to open at 8am.
As artists and students have been gradually priced out of traditional inner-city areas such as Kreuzberg, Friedrichshain, Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg, this southwesterly district has become a haven for the annual hordes of newcomers seeking refuge in its relatively cheap rents, transformed ateliers and bars and burgeoning creative community.
With hordes of journalists and industry types in town Sweeney hoped to benefit from the high profile gala screening.
Naturally, having such a mammoth rig sitting in the middle of the street brought out hordes of gawkers clicking away with their smartphones.
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This will come as a relief to the bespectacled hordes who have ever spent time in an eyeglasses store futilely trying on pair after pair of glasses looking for one that fits your face.
Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies re-casts the original novel in an alternate version of Regency England populated by hordes of undead.
Banks, restaurants and retail outlets in London have staffed up to serve the expected hordes, helping to bring national unemployment to a nine-month low.
Over the last year, the financial industry has repeatedly tried to end this reform with hordes of lobbyists and millions of dollars in ads.
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He also notes China is in the process of shifting emphasis from purchasing vast hordes of resources like ore and oil to targeting companies (or parts of companies) and technology that will form the groundwork for building reputable Chinese brands.
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