As he describes the Clinton team's evolution from relative impotence in Bosnia during its early months to dynamic involvement in 1995, Mr Halberstam gives a sympathetic hearing to the foreign-service officers who protested strongly because America seemed to be condoning Serb atrocities, about which the United States, with its signal and satellite intelligence, was uniquely well informed.
The Senators who voted 96 to 0 to oppose his plan protested vehemently that it would be an unconscionable blow to people who had already made plans to retire within the next year.
But (to be safe): Mr Suharto vehemently protested his innocence.
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In the end, it all came to nothing: The results can't be protested or changed because FINA, the sport's governing body, doesn't use underwater cameras.
We have protested, but the road must be allowed to go ahead.
The market protested, saying it set precedent for other bailout nations to be required to do the same.
More than 100 people have protested outside the House of Commons, calling for the decision to be reversed.
As an example, in April a group of Norfolk head teachers protested about proposals for the premises management and catering in schools to be contracted out for 25 years in exchange for funds for school improvements.
During the tentative approval period, the airline attendants' union protested ValuJet's return to business, claiming that it would not be a safe airline unless members of its executive management, among them ValuJet CEO Lewis Jordan, were fired.
Some have protested by building tree houses and digging tunnels and then securing themselves with locks which had to be dismantled by bailiffs.
The United States has loudly protested the prosecution and conviction of Yulia Tymoshenko, but trumpeters of American liberty should be careful not to be too shrill.
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