31.   There is a protocol, firing bullets in sets of three.

32.   There are newer protocols being designed every day to standardize and limit those demands.

33.   There is no protocol.

34.   There would be protocols for systematic environmental surveillance and joint international reaction to any outbreak of disease involving the designated pathogens.

35.   This time around, the protocol is different.

36.   Transfer protocol is the means by which the thousands of computers and networks that make up the World Wide Web communicate with each other.

37.   Vatican protocol is by itself of little interest.

38.   What she means by this is that in both places the protocol is so arcane as to constitute a subject unto itself.

39.   Without firmer scientific evidence, the Kyoto protocol is an unfair agreement that will cost Americans jobs, income and economic output for questionable reasons, they say.

40.   Years later, Han recalled the significance of that trip to China, and how Zhou had insisted that protocol was as important as anything else during the visit.