Example sentences for: unionist

How can you use “unionist” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Daily Telegraph reported that David Trimble, the Ulster Unionist Party leader and first minister in the new Ulster assembly, had threatened to resign if the march wasn't allowed through.

  • The Times of London's lead story said Northern Ireland Unionist leader David Trimble, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, may have taken "the biggest gamble of his career" by considering entering in government with the Republican Sinn Fein Party--the political wing of the Irish Republican Army--before a single IRA weapon has been handed over.

  • Britain's Daily Express reported that everything now depends on President Clinton achieving a compromise between Republican and Unionist leaders at a meeting in the White House next week.

  • A trade unionist member of the Hong Kong government's labor affairs committee has proposed a minimum hourly wage in the territory of $35 HK.

  • The Post , however, reserved its main praise for Protestant leader Trimble, who, it said, "in wrenching concessions from the intransigent unionists of Northern Ireland, and carrying them through the peace process despite mounting unionist militancy and suspicions of a sell-out to Irish republicanism, pulled off a miracle of biblical proportions."


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