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The sooner an alternative for moderate Unionists is on offer the better.
The approaching fork in the road for NI Unionism O'Neill 2009
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All who remain Unionists (and I do not mean Kenneth Clarke and his deeply EuroPoxed Claque) will find much of this tests greatly their support for that three hundred year old marriage.
Archive 2007-10-21 2007
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All who remain Unionists (and I do not mean Kenneth Clarke and his deeply EuroPoxed Claque) will find much of this tests greatly their support for that three hundred year old marriage.
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On the question of national unity, ten days ago Trudeau was in Saskatchewan saying to a group of farmers, "You've got to be aware of those Trade Unionists from the east."
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That sums up the BBC's attitude to Northern Ireland; if the IRA say something it is true and the Unionists are the ones blocking peace and the inevitable move to a united Ireland.
Archive 2008-09-01 Not a sheep 2008
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The domineering intransigence and blindness to others of some so-called Unionists in Northern Ireland is bad, too.
Vp And Irish Pm Bruton At Presentation Of Shamrocks ITY National Archives 1997
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Smuts, in common with the Labour party, called Unionists the 'capitalist party'.
Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Chapter 6 Ray Esther 1969
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In 1864 an incursion was made by a party of so-called Unionists from Tennessee, commanded by Colonel Kirk, who afterwards gained a very unenviable notoriety in North Carolina.
Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians John Hill 1884
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Unionists, that is by the majority of the British electors, with a decided negative; they will all be raised and will all need an answer when the leaders of the Coalition condescend to produce their next Home Rule Bill or even to reveal its fundamental principles.
A Leap in the Dark A Criticism of the Principles of Home Rule as Illustrated by the Bill of 1893 Albert Venn Dicey 1878
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They had, as the altercation grew hotter, joined in with exclamations of anger or approval, and Vincent saw that although the Unionists were the majority, the party of sympathizers with the South was a strong one.
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