61.  In recent weeks, there have been violent protests outside the embassy.

62.  Increases in the state-set price of gasoline have touched off violent protests in the past.

63.  Increasingly violent protests against globalization at world trade and other international meetings from Seattle to Genoa have put big businesses on guard.

64.  Israel has maintained that violent Palestinian protests are orchestrated by the Palestinian leadership and that Israeli troops have responded only when attacked.

65.  It was the deadliest incident in a week of violent protests against the detention of hundreds of Palestinians in Israelis jails.

66.  It was the first significant violent protest by Palestinians after weeks of demonstrations near Har Homa that have been kept peaceful on the orders of Arafat.

67.  It would prohibit anti-abortion protesters from using the bankruptcy laws to escape debts incurred as a result of court fines or judgments stemming from violent protests at abortion clinics.

68.  Jack Kyser, chief economist of the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp., said threats of violent protests have escalated in recent years at large international events.

69.  Jewish settlers in the West Bank turned to increasingly violent protests, and their supporters in Israel intensified their invective to new levels.

70.  Last spring, violent protests paralyzed the industrial city of Nanchong, where thousands of unpaid workers took an executive hostage and surrounded city hall.