11.   Aided by scientists and protest groups around the world, they persuaded majorities in both bodies to request a World Court opinion.

12.   Bush planners are not concerned over the prospect of various protest groups disrupting the inauguration, Gillespie said.

13.   But leaders of the protest groups said that defendants were being abused in jail.

14.   But there was no word on visas for anarchists, and protest groups are wary.

15.   Consumers are already forming protest groups and vowing never to buy the new limited CDs.

16.   He has funded protest groups, such as the Native Forest Network, whose members chained themselves to logging equipment in Vermont last August.

17.   His efforts received mass media attention largely after he connected with Global Exchange, a protest group that has a full-time PR worker and contacts among mainstream journalists.

18.   In August, a protest group occupied the town hall, and since then the mayor and the oil companies have held several public hearings.

19.   In addition to trying to package their concerns as human interest stories, protest groups have taken a cue from previous generations of protesters and taken to the streets.

20.   In Detroit, a labor union stronghold, protest groups have failed to win the support of any major union.