The United States and Britain have massed nearly 300, 000 troops in the Persian Gulf region.
That alone may be enough to secure their popularity among the massed ranks of Britain's television addicts.
The shells for the massive guns of this supposedly impregnable fortress were designed to destroy attacking ships, not massed infantry.
Everything, maybe, except to the lower orders of the teaching profession and the massed ranks of elected politicians.
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In Times Square, where at least a dozen NYPD Critical Response Vehicles massed, officers patrolled the area on foot.
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The shells for the guns of this supposedly impregnable fortress were designed to destroy attacking ships, not massed infantry.
It is now an industry in itself, with full-time staff, websites, newsletters, professional associations and massed armies of consultants.
Priests dressed in yellow flowing robes and carrying staffs massed at the Holy Trinity cathedral, where the patriarch was buried.
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The affluent, massed or not, are a juicy advertising demographic for the many thriving luxury brands, which explains a lot.
It also broadcast images of ranks of North Koreans massed in central Pyongyang on Friday to listen to congratulatory speeches.
In Germany, there were heated debates about homosexuality, and massed viewers bayed vitriolically for the expulsion of an unpopular contestant.
Meanwhile tens of thousands of pro-immigration activists massed outside the Capitol and in cities around the country to push Congress to act.
One of the children's father called 911 -- and an army of rescue workers massed at the mouth of the deep pit.
In 1990, U.S. warships in the Gulf were placed on alert after Iraq massed nearly 30, 000 troops near its border with Kuwait.
Similarly, after the Gulf War, Turkey aided 500, 000 Kurds when they massed along the Turkish-Iraqi border to escape reprisals from the Iraqi leadership.
This morning, protesters massed outside the Senedd, concerned that some big decisions are in the pipeline about services at Bronglais Hospital in Aberystwyth.
As a practical matter, Saddam Hussein had to move his massed armored forces through Kuwait to get at Saudi Arabia in any meaningful way.
The visitors allowed Newcastle plenty of possession as they sat back and challenged the home side to find a way through their massed ranks.
That gave Arsenal total freedom to stroke the ball around but surprisingly they unwisely tried to play through the massed ranks in the middle.
Meanwhile, Iraq's foreign minister said Monday that Turkey has massed 140, 000 along its border with Iraq in its confrontation with Kurdish separatists operating along the border.
An aptly named dazzle of zebra massed its graphic stripes into a psychedelic backdrop for mongooses moving as one organism, scurrying and popping up, scurrying and popping up again.
The weirdness of it all guaranteed Perot a full crowd and massed cameras when he hit Washington the day after the drop out proposal hit the headlines.
The sparring continued in the early stages after half-time, but United managed to pierce the massed ranks of Liverpool's defence to take the lead after an hour.
We already know that the tomb is booby-trapped by all manner of ancient curses, and, soon enough, the massed ranks of special effects arrive to take revenge.
Along the seafront streets were closed to traffic early in the evening of New Year's Eve, opening the way for massed samba bands to parade through the city.
United went ahead on the half-hour, but it was a contentious moment that will have left Celtic and their massed ranks of supporters nursing a sense of injustice.
They thronged along the sides of the Reflecting Pool leading up to the Lincoln Memorial, where, four decades ago, so many massed to hear the words of Martin Luther King.
U.S. troops remain massed on the outskirts of the holy Shiite city of Najaf, but it remains under the control of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mehdi Army militia.
It draws on both art and industry, says Jin Choi, citing the twin inspirations of Giacometti's spindly, elongated sculptures, and massed pylons marching away from a hydro-electric scheme in Quebec.
The last time massed ranks of British economists aligned themselves behind a particular view on policy was in the early 1980s, when 364 signed a declaration opposing Margaret Thatcher's policies.
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