1.   The authorities issued an ultimatum to the students to end their protest or face arrest.

2.   Anti-strike students regained control of the chemistry department, while strikers agreed to end their protest in the nursing and film schools.

3.   A local commander of the peacekeepers appealed for the Albanians to end the protest.

4.   But some strikers were reported to be ending their protests, especially in the northern regions of the country.

5.   But the privacy advocates refused to end their protest, saying the software patch was an unacceptable solution.

6.   By late Sunday, however, the hunger-strikers had not ended their protest.

7.   He has appealed to President Bill Clinton to look for alternatives that might end the protests.

8.   Hill said she and representatives of Pacific Lumber, reached agreement in principal for her to end her protest some time ago.

9.   In an effort to end the protest, deputies used cotton Q-tips soaked in pepper spray to swab the eyes of the demonstrators.

10.   It was the least damaging and dangerous method for ending the protests, they said.