31.   Police and soldiers have dragged hundreds of settlers off West Bank hillsides since the protest began.

32.   Andi was among a number of activists who went missing after a wave of student anti-government protests began two months ago.

33.   Armed police now guard the main plaza in Villahermosa, capital of Tabasco state, after protests began this week at government buildings and state-owned petrochemical plants.

34.   Before the protest began, they sang nationalist songs.

35.   But the premier and other Montenegrin leaders have been publicly sympathetic to the Serbian opposition since the anti-government protests began in November.

36.   But the Central Military Hospital said the man went into hospital one week before the protests began, and died of heart disease.

37.   But the protests began over complaints that the maximum five years in prison prescribed by law for blasphemy is too lenient.

38.   But while noncampus elements have so far been rarely involved, the danger of this happening as the protests begin to spill out into communities is far from imaginary.

39.   Cham Prasidh said in an interview with The Associated Press that a Hong Kong trade mission had cancelled a trip to Cambodia since the protests began.

40.   Eyewitnesses said the protests began in the southwestern city of Kerak and later spread to the southern town of Maan.