11.   The protests have grown larger and more organized each day, with demands that NATO and U.N. officials come here and agree not to send the Russians.

12.   What began as protests grew into riots and stone throwing and, finally, shooting by the Palestinian police.

13.   When a protest grows so impossibly large, and draws such unexpected support, how on earth is it expected to end?

14.   Protests have grown smaller recently, since Milosevic deployed heavily armed riot police who prevent massive marches that jammed the city center during the first weeks.

15.   After six weeks of daily demonstrations, protests recently have grown more fearful of police harassment.

16.   As the protest grew in size, some in the crowd hurled rocks at the house then set the home ablaze.

17.   As the protests grew, their demands expanded to include the ouster of corrupt leaders and democratic reforms.

18.   But after his troubled third election, public opinion had swung sharply and protests grew larger and angrier.

19.   But the protest has grown into a broader demand for democratic reforms.

20.   Even before that, though, the daily street protests had grown into the greatest challenge ever to his autocratic grip on power.