21.   Their biggest fear is that protesters will try to block freeway traffic by ditching vehicles in the middle of the road.

22.   When the group was stopped short of the Convention Center by riot policemen, the protesters tried to push the coffin through the police line.

23.   Yet here in the Judge Lewis Quadrangle, a block from the Liberty Bell, several thousand protesters tried.

24.   Opposition groups had threatened major demonstrations marking the one-year anniversary, but by late morning no protesters had tried to defy the government ban on public demonstrations.

25.   Police broke up pickets by dock hands blockading wharves on Tuesday, dragging away protesters trying to keep non-union workers from unloading ships.

26.   Police intervened only when the protesters tried to storm the American Embassy in Khartoum, firing tear gas grenades and detaining three people who were released later.

27.   Outside the building, Marines and other Senate guards used batons and plain pieces of lumber to drive back protesters trying to force their way into the driveway.

28.   Protesters briefly tried to block a shipment of nuclear waste that left a German power plant under heavy security early Tuesday, bound for a reprocessing plant in Britain.

29.   Protesters tried several times to regroup and continue demonstrating but were attacked by police who beat them and dragged them away, the group said.

30.   Protesters tried to set an American flag on fire, but it was too wet after being dragged in the slush.