1.   Barak lost his parliamentary majority in the legislature on the eve of the Camp David talks, when three religious and rightist parties quit to protest the peace talks.

2.   Many of them quit to protest disappointing year-end bonuses.

3.   Rotblat assisted in the World War II Manhattan Project, but quit to protest the continuation of work to build the atomic bomb after Nazi Germany surrendered.

4.   Tembo and other senior party members quit to protest the third-term bid, which the president abandoned in May under growing pressure.

5.   The Festina team was expelled then for systematic use of illegal performance-enhancing substances, notably EPO, and several teams quit to protest police searches.

6.   Party leaders said they also quit to protest perceived U.S. pressure on Israel to make concessions to the Palestinians.

7.   At least two government ministers quit to protest the decree.

8.   He said he was quitting to protest the reappointment of Mikhail Zadornov as finance minister.

9.   Reiner Kunze and Juergen Fuchs, both prominent novelists, quit to protest merger talks with eastern PEN, which they regard as virtually unchanged from the Communist days.

10.   She replaced Tadeusz Mazowiecki of Poland, who quit to protest U.N. inaction over the fall of Srebrenica.