1.  The arrests sparked off violent street protests.

2.  There have been violent street protests in the run-up to the elections.

3.  There was a ban on street protests.

4.  Three people died Thursday in violent street protests.

5.  Three people died yesterday in violent street protests.

6.  This replaced the original plan whose severity had sparked off street protests in February and March and which had been abandoned in mid-April.

7.  Members of the international AIDS pressure group Act-Up staged street protests against the US immigration restrictions.

8.  Hau was widely regarded as a conservative, and violent street protests erupted in Taipei when news of his appointment emerged.

9.  Alvarez, a former reporter who braved gunfire in Latin American war zones, was not fazed by the sometimes violent street protest in Seattle.

10.  Amid street protests, the military leader, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, handed power to a transitional government nominally headed by a civilian, Ernest Shonekan.