If they believed that the rangers were not aggressive enough, they protested, sometimes publicly.
Hundreds of small-scale fishermen in Chile have clashed with police in several coastal towns as they protested against a proposed new fisheries law.
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During the pipeline's construction, the feisty local farmers say they protested the oil company by periodically blockading the muddy road that runs through their village.
Seeing the arrangement as an admission of failure and a declaration of bankruptcy, they protested so loudly that the government, though still going ahead, was obliged to issue an apology.
Two Hyatt housekeepers, who had 30 years experience combined, say they were fired when they protested Photoshopped images of their faces on bikini-clad women that were posted in the break room.
They all protested their innocence and were in fact pardoned by King Hamad and released in February 2011.
They also protested over reductions to in-patient beds at the Wallnuttree Hospital in Sudbury and the loss of 200 jobs at three main hospitals managed by the Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Trust.
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Analysts point to President Robert Mugabe's decision to offer huge unbudgeted pay-outs to Zimbabwe's war veterans in 1997 - after they had protested at being "ignored" - as a key factor in the start of that country's economic collapse.
They had proved unpopular with head teachers, who protested they undermined efforts to maintain discipline in schools.
Those who went on strike have protested that they will have to work longer, pay more and get less.
Senate Democrats blasted their colleagues for the blocking tactics, but some Republicans protested that they needed more time to weigh the nomination.
As suspects Carlos Alberto Ojeda and Luis Frank Tello were handed over to Drug Enforcement Administration officials in an operation shown live on state television, they shouted insults and protested their innocence to the assembled media.
Several hundred demonstrators gathered outside the parliament and a number of environmental activists briefly protested inside parliament before they were led out.
People protested against the governor whom they thought did not represent them and that movement was extremely peaceful.
As a result, the National Institutes of Health and the Wellcome Trust tightened access to these collections of DNA. The scientific community protested, but officials felt they had no choice because participants had been explicitly promised anonymity, said Eric Green, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute at NIH.
In 2003 Americans protested against the war, but they weren't heard.
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Teachers' unions have protested against the proposals, saying that they will be divisive and unfair.
Thousands of Shiite Muslims protested in the streets of Nasiriya, fearing they will be excluded from the process, CNN's John Vause reported.
Some MPs have protested after receiving his letters telling them how much they should pay back, with several arguing that it was unfair and legally questionable to apply new rules retrospectively.
The development comes after some 200, 000 people protested in Rio de Janeiro against the bill, which they said would deprive Rio state of much of its oil revenue.
It escalated when they tried to take disciplinary action against the employee as other workers protested and blocked all exit gates, preventing senior executives and managers from leaving the factory.
Japan has reportedly protested about the statue, but South Korean officials have said they cannot do anything about it.
United supporters have protested against the club's owners because of the debt they've added to the team, but repaying the PIK facility will reduce financial pressure on the club, widely considered the world's most valuable sports franchise.
She says the men have always protested their innocence and the trial should never have gone ahead because they were tortured.
The police protested: since the revellers thronging the streets would be dousing anyone they came across with water and talcum powder, surely the police had a right to defend themselves in kind?
They made that point clear to Rogers at the Duke shareholders meeting in 2011, while hundreds of FreedomWorks activists protested outside.
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