Example sentences for: unionist

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

  • "Peace within their grasp" proclaimed the Guardian 's front-page headline after David Trimble and Gerry Adams, the Unionist and republican leaders, issued separate statements committing themselves to pursuing their conflicting objectives by "exclusively peaceful and democratic" means.

  • Two years into World War I, on Easter Monday, 24 April 1916, the Easter Rising began when the Citizen’s Army, led by trade unionist James Connolly, and the Irish Republican Brotherhood, led by poet Padráig Pearse, took control of a number of key buildings in the capital.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and head of the province's new Protestant-Catholic coalition government, has said he will resign if the IRA doesn't start to give up its weapons.


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