1.   As protesters battled the police in the streets outside the meeting, ministers argued inside, and the talks eventually collapsed.

2.   German soccer thugs battled police in Lens.

3.   Islamist-led students, protesting the lack of adequate bus service between the city and King Hassan II University, recently battled police.

4.   Several hundred students set buses aflame in Karachi and battled police with rocks.

5.   Smashing windows and battling police on account of the WTO, an organization dedicated to global free trade?

6.   The city is Seattle, where protesters battled police and trade ministers battled one another under storm clouds in December.

7.   Those residents who battled the police and tried to block traffic on the main Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway last week were not sparing their right hands, either.

8.   People earlier had battled police in an attempt to reach a downtown square to protest against alleged government involvement.

9.   Protesters broke windows with stones and snowballs, and battled police who blocked entrances to parliament.

10.   A decade ago, workers walked off their jobs and battled police over what they saw as the repressive policies of an authoritarian military regime.