1.   Hundreds of workers staged a walkout to protest conditions in the factory.

2.   At Duke and Georgetown, students have staged sit-ins to protest conditions at factories producing apparel carrying their college logos.

3.   After one of his wives publicly protested the conditions, she was assassinated on a Lagos street.

4.   College students, and sometimes high school students, are protesting sweatshop conditions, in the developing world and in American cities.

5.   Commonly, vegans choose this lifestyle because they protest the conditions in which the animals are bred and raised.

6.   In Florida a group of farm workers recently marched across part of the state to protest working conditions.

7.   In New Delhi, India, this week a Tibetan exile died from self-immolation to protest conditions in Tibet.

8.   In Seattle, after Esmor opened its immigration detention center, immigrants barricaded themselves in their rooms to protest conditions.

9.   Ms. Setouchi sees in the novel a strong feminist voice, protesting the conditions of women at the time.

10.   Oil prices also rose after tanker pilots in Venezuela threatened to strike tomorrow to protest shipping conditions.