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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- The capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, in the eastern part of the province on an inlet of the Irish Sea. After many years of conflict between Protestants and Catholics, a major peace settlement was signed here in 1998.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the capital of Northern Ireland; -- the center of Irish Protestantism.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A seaport in and the capital of
Northern Ireland . - proper noun A town in the State of
Maine ,USA .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun capital and largest city of Northern Ireland; the center of Protestantism in Northern Ireland
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JIM RODGERS, LORD MAYOR OF BELFAST: On behalf of the citizens of Belfast, I would like to extend our deepest condolences to the people of the United States of America following the terrible atrocity.
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BELFAST - Gunmen critically wounded a Catholic in front of his young son at the end of a day of funerals in Belfast, ramming home their message that retribution for an IRA bombing which killed 10 was far from over.
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BELFAST (Reuters) - Northern Ireland's rival main parties agreed a deal on Thursday to devolve police and justice powers to Belfast from London and end a lengthy row that had threatened to topple their power-sharing government.
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BELFAST (AFP) - Northern Ireland's leaders on Tuesday condemned rioting by Catholics opposed to Protestant marches in Belfast, which left 82 police officers injured.
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BELFAST - Jordan Hersom led a balanced attack with 14 points and Lucas Witham added 10 to pace Leavitt to a 53-28 boys 'basketball victory over Belfast in a KVAC game Tuesday.
Sun Journal 2010
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BELFAST (Reuters) - Northern Ireland's rival main parties agreed a deal on Thursday to devolve police and justice powers to Belfast from London and end a lengthy row that had threatened to topple their power-sharing government.
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BELFAST (Reuters) - A Belfast judge on Monday ordered the extradition to Spain of a former leader of Basque separatist group ETA to face a charge of justifying terrorism.
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BELFAST (Reuters) - Sinn Fein said Thursday it had the basis for a deal to devolve police and justice powers to Belfast from London and end a lengthy row that has threatened to bring down Northern Ireland's government.
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BELFAST (Reuters) - A bomb in a hijacked taxi exploded on Monday behind a British army barracks in County Down, a police spokeswoman said, minutes after the transfer of police and justice powers to Belfast from London was completed.
Reuters: Top News 2010
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BELFAST (Reuters) - Northern Ireland's rival main parties agreed a deal on Thursday to devolve police and justice powers to Belfast from London and end a lengthy row that had threatened to topple their power-sharing government.
Reuters: Top News 2010
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