21.   At one point they withdrew Brianne from Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore over the protests of its staff.

22.   At the same time, a judge dismissed the criminal case over the protests of an angry prosecutor, who felt Grigsby was let off easy.

23.   Baghdad stalled proceedings in protest of U.N. distribution methods it said were unsatisfactory.

24.   Because he served in the Assembly minority, where the Republicans are reduced to protests of showy symbolism, Pataki achieved little during his four terms there.

25.   A Japanese manager shocked the nation when he committed hara-kiri in a protest of the corporate restructuring that is starting to take place across the country.

26.   Actually if not officially, the National Book Awards were instituted in protest of the literary Pulitzer Prizes, especially in the realm of fiction.

27.   Across town, thousands of demonstrators marched against American support for Israel and in protest of the Israeli response to the spate of suicide bombers.

28.   After the association announced the pending award in its monthly journal, The American Psychologist, protests of the choice began.

29.   After some sporadic demonstrations, the leaders recently began daily protests of civil disobedience.

30.   Against the initial protests of his family, he took up painting.