The Israeli response to protests has frequently been harsh.
The police response to protests in Ferguson has affected children as much as the death itself.
Those efforts, though, were driven by local businesses and were a response to protests.
The Russian police response to protests since the election drew criticism abroad.
the president of Egypt, in response to protests over his seizure of unchecked authority.
Conditions there have frequently been adapted in response to protests by both loyalist and republican prisoners.
December's protests broadened into condemnations of a government whose aggressive response to protests seemed tone deaf and, at times, incompetent.
Mr. Assad had announced the resignation of the entire cabinet last week in response to protests across Syria demanding reform.
Others, though, have faulted the country's poorly trained security forces for a persistently heavy-handed response to protests.
On Sunday the Refugee Action Coalition RACC) said it had received reports the riot squad had been mobilised in response to protests.
Ofcom's response to protests is that most people are happy with the current quality of DAB (digital audio broadcasting), apart from a very small minority of audiophiles.
