21.   Temporary protected status traditionally has been extended to persons displaced because of war.

22.   The cloning issue is highly charged because it boils down to the question of whether human embryos deserve the same protected status as a person.

23.   They include rigorous post-tenure review that may lead to stripping some professors of their protected status.

24.   Voters were rejecting a ballot measure Tuesday that would eliminate the protected status for mountain lions and open the door to hunting the animals.

25.   People previously granted temporary protected status or who registered for it during previous deadlines are eligible for extensions.

26.   But like a U.N. flight ban on rebel Serb aircraft, the protected status has had little effect.

27.   Chiquita and other U.S. banana exporting companies have threatened the protected status of the Caribbean banana producers in the lucrative European Union market.

28.   Hunters occasionally are issued licenses allowed to shoot Caucasian mountain goats and ibex in the region for their prized fur despite their protected status.

29.   Hondurans and Nicaraguans still must apply to renew their protected status and to get new authorization cards.

30.   It differs from another extension of temporary protected status but the practical impact for Liberians -- staying for another year -- is the same.