11.   Environmental groups plan to stage public protests during the conference.

12.   There will be a risk of public protest that could set back reforms.

13.   Public protests against the government were always promptly slapped down.

14.   On this occasion, however, the details of some of the behind-the-scenes fixing were publicized by the opposition and an unprecedented public protest took place as a result.

15.   Consequently, so he explained later in his memoirs, he anticipated only public protests from Washington.

16.   The US embassy even suggested that a Conservative government might find it more difficult to keep public protest within bounds.

17.   So, after an historic climbdown over the pit closures, and a weekend of furious public protests, what of Michael Heseltine?

18.   Although public protests are not permitted in the insular kingdom, hostility to the continuing U.S. military presence here has occasionally burst into the open.

19.   And public protest often works.

20.   And while he insisted that public protests would continue to be permitted, he said that any demonstrations advocating the independence of Tibet or Taiwan would be illegal.