It is understood the commission has not ruled with regard to loyalist flag protest marches because legal advice indicates it does not have the power to do so.

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"Chile is a democracy and students have the right to protest, but I very much hope they will do it peacefully, " she said.

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The British team lodged a protest against the diffuser design used by Toyota, Williams and Brawn GP yet do not want to risk falling behind rivals.

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Robert Malley, director of the Middle East and North Africa for the International Crisis Group, told me the opposition is learning the hard way that "elections do matter" and that hitting the streets in violent protest does not always lead to change.

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Mr Thomas is part of the local residents organisation, the Thanet Action Group, which organised the protest and has called a meeting for 18 March in the Park Hut in the park to discuss what to do next.

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Others believe that they would work, but would do more harm than good by encouraging Iranians to rally around the government at a time when the protest movement looks as though it might just bring about change.

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Nobody who knows me has ever seen me wear a tie except under protest, and the few that I do possess of my own volition are accidental trophies, "given" to me by the maitre d's of places where neckwear is compulsory.

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