21.   BJP legislators yesterday walked out of parliament in protest over the arrests.

22.   AN ARMED miner gave himself up to police yesterday after a nine-hour underground protest over planned pit closures.

23.   Spanish lorry drivers started the blockade as a protest over rising petrol prices, then their French counterparts retaliated by blocking their side of the border.

24.   Almost every week now reports filter out, usually via human rights groups based abroad, of demonstrations or protests over labor issues.

25.   Already, nomads have made isolated protests over fencing off of wildlife preserves.

26.   Already, over the last year, scores of small-scale protests over layoffs, lost pay and other employment issues have been reported.

27.   Also that year, Blacks in Media Broadcasting Organization launched its first of several annual protests over the lack of African-American representation in cinema.

28.   American protests over the bizarre sequence were shot down.

29.   And Laurent Gbagbo, the other main opposition leader, has withdrawn in protest over what he has called an unfair electoral code.