And rightly there is a storm of protest aimed at saving them.

Politicians in New Jersey and several other states are being pressured by grass-roots protests aimed at curbing use of the new fuel.

Syria has seen a violent crackdown on protests aimed at the president, Bashar al-Assad.

He became the centre of a protest aimed at protecting the Egyptians from their Turkish and European oppressors.

Community Board 3 took the middle ground, while political organizers on the poorer east side of the park favored protest aimed at keeping it open.

Today, in a protest aimed at sending a message to Caracas, landowners and merchants closed businesses and blocked roads.

In March 2010 the pro-Thaksin red-shirts launched new protests aimed at bringing the government down.

Classes were last suspended in 1969 during protests aimed at improving opportunities for poor and minority-group students.

Some 300 people are said to be marching through New York's financial district, in an protest apparently aimed at Goldman Sachs.

Officials were concerned about the possibility of antiwar protests aimed at the teams.