How To Use Loyalist In A Sentence

This dilemma perfectly sums up the impasse in all republican-loyalist negotiations.
All of this was underpinned with ample confidence in the friendly disposition of much of the population-presumably loyalist at heart, simply waiting to welcome British military leaders to their hearthstones.
Also, Mousavi has written a letter (in Farsi) to the Iranian security council saying that personnel from the Ahmadinejad-loyalist Basij militia are doffing their uniforms and attacking innocent people in the streets. Iran Election Live-Blogging (Wednesday June 17)
Experts from both sides of the Atlantic will discuss battlefield tactics, the contribution of Loyalists and Native Americans, the role of officers, and the real reasons why the British forces failed to achieve victory.
He was one of three loyalists who went to Downing Street to plead with her to stay on.

The old politics, which was decided by the solid blocks of party loyalists, belongs to the past. Times, Sunday Times
Those opposed to power-sharing wanted an arrangement to maximize the loyalist vote.
The choices they made also illustrate the divisions within the clergy and the gap between Loyalist clergy and revolutionary laity.
Like his men, he wears a motley garb, -- part Spanish uniform, part costume of the Llanos; and he leans upon a lance, decorated with a black bannerol, which has carried death already to innumerable Loyalist hearts. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859
There were calls among Unionists and Nationalists for the Loyalist groups to follow suit, but Ervine said they did not feel under pressure to make a reciprocal gesture.
In assembly elections last November, the erstwhile mainstream parties were beaten by the hard-liners -- Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Irish Republican Army, and the DUP, led by the loyalist, anti - "popery" firebrand Ian Paisley. MARCHING TOWARD CIVILITY
In colonial America loyalists to the crown were called Tories.
Tory loyalists pushed out in front of the TV cameras have dismissed this as "tittle-tattle". David Cameron will plough on with the health plan at his peril | Andrew Rawnsley
Nationalists and loyalists fought first each other, and then police who tried to separate them.
He revealed that more than half of those arrested during the rioting - both Loyalists and nationalists - were juveniles.
The military carries out regular security patrols in Unionist and Loyalist areas on foot or in police or army vehicles.
He's a diehard loyalist and a campaigner known for his inimitable style.
Existing ‘loyalist’ forces were unable to quell the rebellion and reinforcements had to be called from China.
Her production pinpoints the role of women as both products and perpetuators of the loyalist ethos with clinical accuracy.
He was accused of inciting violence with his biblical hyperbole and then denouncing loyalists when they carried out atrocities. Times, Sunday Times
The Loyalists amongst the Colonials came out in crowds to see him, eager to show their allegiance now that it looked as if the revolution were sputtering out.
Then, in the mid-1780s, thousands of Loyalists came to the province in the wake of the American Revolution.
But hardly anyone in political circles, including Republican loyalist redoubts on Capitol Hill, believes that right now.
Security forces had allied with extreme loyalists to expel families from their homes.
We have a huge responsibility on our shoulders now and the sooner the loyalists are sorted out the better.
The election alliance led by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki -- whose administration has been backed by Washington -- called the court decision "bloodstained" by allowing suspected Saddam loyalists back into the political fold. SeMissourian.com Headlines
If the security forces are thick on the ground and loyalist gunmen commit murder it is the result of collusion.
Head teachers complain that they have been usurped by militia loyalists who do not have the necessary qualifications or experience. Times, Sunday Times
This system of direct rule by proxy enraged the Unionist right and eventually unleashed a downward spiral of loyalist reaction and republican assertiveness.
The diciest moment came when hundreds of Saleh loyalists, touting swords and knives, massed outside the UAE Embassy. Yemen leader balks at signing resignation deal
The election alliance led by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki - whose administration has been backed by Washington - called the court decision "bloodstained" by allowing suspected Saddam loyalists back into the political fold. Daytondailynews.com - News
Mediation has been repeatedly called for in the loyalist feud.
Indeed, political activity at a variety of levels showed signs of breaking out of the loyalist versus republican deadlock.
Through marshy headlands rivers and fertile streams trickled, and the wind-swift archer's horses of the loyalist soldiers of Adiabene drank their fill.
Meanwhile, another man was shot and wounded in Belfast as the loyalist feud continues.
From the left side of the column the entire forest opened up in fire and smoke, six pound cannons pouring grapeshot into the Loyalist ranks.
As often as not, the government would then act against the loyalists to prevent the increase in tension.
Karbala has been the scene of clashes between loyalists of Shia cleric al - Sadr and Iraqi forces.
The French have been blamed by loyalist mobs for brokering a recent peace deal that the government supporters say concedes too much to the rebels.
As often happens in such cases, the dangers incurred from the zeal of the local loyalist seem to have been much the most formidable of the perils of the hour. Maria Edgeworth
The faction of Moscow loyalists essentially waited and picked up the pieces of the shattered organization.
The choices they made also illustrate the divisions within the clergy and the gap between Loyalist clergy and revolutionary laity.
Criminals, saboteurs, and diehard regime loyalists must be detained and tried in a fair manner.
Comey, in turn, appointed Patrick Fitzgerald, a Republican not known as a hard-core loyalist.
The Auberge takes its name from the historic village of North Hatley, which was initially settled by British Loyalists after the American Declaration of Independence in 1776.
IT'S the 1940s and the loyalist government are very controlling. The Sun
They have a wide conspiracy of destroying everything that marks there was a great kingdom called Buganda, and this is one of them," loyalist Jemba Erisa told Reuters at the tombs. European Tribune
The police are also alleged to have failed to act to stop the lawyer's killing despite having had advance warning from loyalist sources that his execution was planned.
In this sense, the murder of Browne ratchets up the deepening shadows around the state/loyalist paramilitary linkage.
A small but noisy crowd of regime loyalists were allowed to enter the main hotel in Tripoli housing foreign journalists yesterday morning. Times, Sunday Times
Ministers and loyalist deputies praised the speech, but opponents suggested he was being two-faced.
A drawing of King William at the top of this broadsheet, rocking on a wooden hobby horse, might have caused some offense in loyalist circles.
Loyalist cries of "U. S. A. " tried to drown out the dissent. -Please, please don't be diverted by the ground noise and the static.
The loyalists in the front line won't listen to nationalist or republican leaders.
During a meeting at the Diamond police restrained attempts by loyalist and Catholic youths to break through their fines.
Its hilltop position would give loyalist troops a vantage point over rebel areas. Times, Sunday Times
This study aims to examine the role of Protestant working class youth culture in transmitting loyalist ethnic and political identity.
Loyalist paramilitaries yesterday threatened a new outbreak of bloodshed in republican areas of Northern Ireland.
And he is scathing in his criticism of current manifestations of loyalist paramilitarism.
He was injured as sustained attacks on the security forces by both nationalists and loyalists continued.
The presence of McDonald - the so-called brigadier of the South Belfast wing of the loyalist paramilitary group - and other loyalist leaders is considered to be a significant step in building relations with republican and nationalist communities. Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed
Loyalists and Unionists tend to be Protestants, but there is such a thing as a Catholic Loyalist and a Catholic Unionist.
McCrea's platform sharing at a Portadown rally with the senior loyalist in 1996 has been well documented. Reverend revelations
Another likely band of loyalists will be those who don't feel comfortable with touch-screen keyboards. Motion Sickness Plagues BlackBerry Holders
And as night fell, rioting erupted between rival gangs of nationalists and loyalists in the north of the city.
If you read the map like a loyalist, the axis that held the hemispheres together still ran from the Aldwych along the Strand and into the Mall - and as it happened, this was my first walk in London, after I left the bridge.
The Laborites most likely to lose seats are New Labor loyalists swept in the landslides of 1997 and 2001.
The city is a stronghold of former regime loyalists.
It's just a criminal gang masquerading as Loyalists.
Government loyalists staged a counterdemonstration in Tahrir Square, where they have held rallies over the past few weeks. Rival Protesters Duel in Yemen
In the past the mind of loyalist paramilitarism was just another factor in the wider political equation.
This study aims to examine the role of Protestant working class youth culture in transmitting loyalist ethnic and political identity.
Loyalist marches in Northern Ireland have sparked some of the worst rioting in recent years.
But, he's still able toweasel invitations to events like Monday's convocation of Party "loyalists" in Washington, an annual event organized to make the remainingfinancial contributors feel as though they are not, in fact, dying, but full ofpiss and vinegarand daily-dose Cialis, andready to hear How The Liberals Will Be DefeatedNext Year For Sure. Look! It's Me! Look! Please!
He refused, for example, to participate in the blanket calumniation of Loyalists, and of all things British.
The other, held by many republicans, insists that British thinking on the North is, in fact, indistinguishable from that of hardline unionists and loyalists.
The Army's preference to appear neutral was severely undermined by its role during the Loyalist marching season of 1970.
One side is loyalist and traditional, the other centralist and modernizing.
The choices they made also illustrate the divisions within the clergy and the gap between Loyalist clergy and revolutionary laity.
Responsibility for the attack was later claimed by the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force.
It was especially interesting to see how these minions went into overdrive after the recent Loyalist riots.
But now U.S. forces feels it's a nest of former regime loyalists and anti coalition fighters.
This coincided with an influx of black immigrants, mostly Loyalists who had served in the British Army during the American War of Independence.
The recently released files, discovered at the National Archives in Kew in London by researchers from the Derry-based Pat Finucane Centre, expose the official thinking behind the disparity and highlight the military's relaxed attitude towards loyalist paramilitary factions. MoD took softer line on loyalist paramilitaries, secret files reveal
All are hardline loyalists to the 67-year-old dictator, and one was his military attaché. The Sun
Brian Ervine, the new leader of the political party associated with the UVF, told Spotlight that a senior north Belfast loyalist's apparent decision to become a "supergrass" could harden the position. BBC News - Home
One of the initial members of the Loyalist Committee, Senator Dio represents a peaceful agri-world known for a strong streak of independence from big government.
This power-sharing agreement sought to include all the main strands of Loyalist and Nationalist opinion in the executive.
After the American Revolution, many British Loyalists settled in Canada.
Death threats, allegedly from a Loyalist paramilitary group, forced Northern Ireland soccer star Neil Lennon, a Catholic, to withdraw from the international team.
The flamboyant loyalist has been accused of possessing and concealing criminal property.
But he blamed such strikes on terrorists and loyalists from the defunct regime.
Loyalists are likely to dismiss the criticisms as a familiar refrain from opponents who have never come to terms with his leadership.
In Northern Ireland the loyalist ceasefire is under scrutiny after bombs were planted at sports grounds.
Let Orrin Hatch, Mitch McConnell and other right wing extremist stew in their bile and become red faced with indignancy as the American patriots in the congress undo the wrongs these corporatist loyalists have enabled or perpetrated. Printing: Time to End the Interim Appointment Rat-Hole
He recently went on record to promise a frank report from the 12-year inquiry into collusion between security forces and loyalist paramilitaries.
There was a professionalism and explosive expertise about the operation totally alien to the loyalist slap-dash, amateur bombers.
I was inside like some church or meeting house, and there were a blend of people who were native-born Americans and English-born Loyalists.
He was accused of inciting violence with his biblical hyperbole and then denouncing loyalists when they carried out atrocities. Times, Sunday Times
In addition to the Loyalists fleeing the American Revolution, Canada became a sought-after destination for American farmers in search of cheaper land.
If the issue is big enough, and the loyalists persistent, some artists and writers catch wind of the issue and descend with their muck-raking efforts. J Henry Fair: The Wizards of Finance
In June 1969 a proposed Connolly commemoration parade through Belfast city centre was bitterly opposed by loyalists.
As the trial unfolded, the press split between those who thought her a liar and a cheat, but believed the jury would acquit, and the loyalists.
He was accused of inciting violence with his biblical hyperbole and then denouncing loyalists when they carried out atrocities. Times, Sunday Times
Sure there was hardly a more loyalist, true-blue, Protestant street in the whole of Ulster.
Organising such a conference would give the country's poor enough hope to avoid them being bought off by old regime loyalists still in office. Times, Sunday Times
He was accused of inciting violence with his biblical hyperbole and then denouncing loyalists when they carried out atrocities. Times, Sunday Times
He also said coalition operations had averted what he called "bloody massacre" of Benghazi residents by Gadhafi loyalists. Anti-Aircraft Fire Erupts Over Tripoli as More Nations Enforce No-Fly Zone
The continuing sideshows in both dissident republican and loyalist camps compound their problems.
He was accused of inciting violence with his biblical hyperbole and then denouncing loyalists when they carried out atrocities. Times, Sunday Times
The ruthless scenario was outlined by one hardline loyalist figure last week.
His report was scathing about Loyalist and Republican terror groups.
The second phase switched British attentions to the south, where large numbers of Loyalists could be recruited.
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Statements that denounce loyalist violence or comment on its increase are frequent.
Suddenly, the loyalist outcry over the arrests in the Rathcoole district was the government's best friend.
White fumes rose from tear gas fired by the French, and black smoke billowed from a roadblock of burning metal drums set afire at the base gates by the loyalists.
The case has been dogged by claims of British collusion with loyalist gunmen.
But they ignore the fact that the Loyalists have carried out a concentrated campaign of pipe bombing and petrol bombing, and have even shot at children over the last year.
The attack bore all the hallmarks of a loyalist murder bid.
The attack was in revenge for the deaths of two loyalist prisoners.
Many wanted the military to speed up the process of weeding out regime loyalists from positions of power and bring in a civilian transitional administration. Times, Sunday Times
Gallagher said loyalist and republican prisoners were outraged at constant strip searches.
Nationalist resentment at the gerrymander was amplified by the determination of Unionists to define the centre of the city, enclosed within its plantation walls, as a loyalist public space.
After the American Revolution another influx of refugees arrived, Loyalists who like the Acadians had been driven from their homes.
The Loyalist working-class areas of Belfast suffer nothing like the level of social exclusion faced by the Roma.
In June 1969 a proposed Connolly commemoration parade through Belfast city centre was bitterly opposed by loyalists.
In this lucrative post he distributed many patronage jobs, rewarding party loyalists while also seeking to recognize merit.
For a long time journalists vaguely lumped together Nationalists, Republicans and the Irish State on one side of the equation, and the British States with Unionists and Loyalists on the other side of the equation.
More than two million refugees have fled the area, fearing attack by loyalist forces.
Now all but the most unquestioning loyalists are having serious second thoughts.
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This study aims to examine the role of Protestant working class youth culture in transmitting loyalist ethnic and political identity.
This study aims to examine the role of Protestant working class youth culture in transmitting loyalist ethnic and political identity.
Very little coverage has been given to the infighting within Loyalist organisations and the possible implications for Scotland.
The Loyalist exodus from Northern Ireland had arrived.
Only one loyalist had been interned and that was on a separate charge.
"These attacks, whether by rejectionist loyalists or dissident republicans, are attacks on the peace process and must be condemned in the most forthright and unequivocal terms."
Now all but the most unquestioning loyalists are having serious second thoughts.
We trust to the French element, if we honestly unite with it and make it one people with us-we trust to the French people to introduce all the logic and the science, and the art and the literature which always reach their height in Frenchmen or Greeks; to introduce also that historic consciousness, that memory of the past, that sense of touch with our own traditions and records which has always marked Frenchmen and Greeks; to save us from that forgetting of our own history and indifference to our own past which marks most men of the British race, always excepting the United Empire Loyalist. The Canadian National Character
The Laborites most likely to lose seats are New Labor loyalists swept in the landslides of 1997 and 2001.
This one, in support of the Loyalist cause in Spain, featured the reading of “a bitter antiwar play,” after which Donald Ogden Stewart speechified, “exhorting those there to make movies with meaning: ‘Let us have no more million-dollar revolving staircases … but let us have some simple truths, as we have had tonight … on a bare stage, against nothing but a plain background.’” Toiling in the Dream Factory
In the past, it has also been accused of involvement in a shoot-to-kill policy against republicans and in loyalist attacks on nationalists.
Be they nationalist or loyalist, be they securocrats or criminals, the anti-peace brigades have won the day.
A fortnight ago, the marchers carried loyalist flags, but claimed that, since the flags were furled, that was all right.
One was a loyalist, though his loyalty had been stretched over the past few days.
Rebels hold the north and loyalist forces the south of what was considered a haven of peace and prosperity until a 1999 coup.
Loyalists use tennis racquets to send over golf balls and have launched ball-bearings from catapults.
Colonial Loyalists and Southern unionists, who rejected outright the nascent nations where they resided, comprised another potential source of dissent, though never a cohesive one.
But even that function is pretty meager, for only sparse audiences of curious spectators and hard core loyalists ever show up at their confabs.
They came here for sanctuary after feuding between loyalists erupted into threats of execution.
He got clapped and cheered by the audience, or at least by the noisy loyalist claque who are dotted about the hall.
There were vicious sectarian elements to the loyalist riots.
Mr Ervine told Spotlight that a senior north Belfast loyalist's apparent decision to become a "supergrass" could harden the position. BBC News - Home
Less fortunate, though, were the handful of black loyalists whom Pybus, in a brilliant feat of research, traces to Australia's fatal shore: They were convicts on the First Fleet of 1787-88. Anti-Revolutionary British Loyalists
Top politicians and the press try to claim that Loyalists and Republicans are equally to blame for the violence in Northern Ireland.
Some of the more vitriolic regime propagandists, such as pouty anchorwoman Hala Misrati, were tracked down and jailed after Tripoli's fall, alongside thousands of other suspected Gadhafi loyalists. In Tripoli Blacklist, Fears of Purge to Come
On that day he did not flinch from the reality of loyalist violence.
'Abernethy's told me what it's about, why the loyalists are suddenly arming themselves. Mortal Causes
Likewise, there is no place in the new government for republicans or loyalists before full paramilitary decommissioning by both sides.
Police were investigating unconfirmed reports of shots being fired as loyalists and nationalists confronted each other in Ardoyne.
Weir said the chief superintendent was fully aware of his activities with sectarian killers such as the late Robin Jackson, alias The Jackal, one of the most notorious loyalist killers of the 1970s.
Thus, Chinese nationalism is a Janus-faced force that can and does move easily in both loyalist and oppositional directions. A Primer On China
But in terms of the protestant - loyalist philosophy, the overwhelming majority of catholics oppose the state's legitimacy.
The Revolution itself divided the populace, with patriots and loyalists battling one another for control of what each saw as their country.
The rebel forces have been repeatedly attacked by loyalist troops.
For three days they met fierce resistance as regime loyalists massed against them. Times, Sunday Times
The history of the American Revolution and the settlement of various Loyalists in Nova Scotia are thoroughly investigated.
The book and the tale of Wright's contribution to Loyalist terror are made even more gripping by Anderson's flowing writing style.
1989 - A South African diplomat, believed to ba a national intelligence agent, an American and two Ulster loyalists, are apprehended by police in Paris while conducting an arms deal involving stolen British "blowpipe" missiles. ANC Daily News Briefing
Some mode of defence is necessary to counteract and defeat these rubious prac - tices, to prevent this illicit trade and intercourse, and to stop the inroads and incursions of the pretended loyalists. Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
In 1783, the arrival of Loyalists after the American War of Independence almost tripled the English-speaking population.
It's believed he was depressed and suicidal over fears that rival loyalist inmates were targeting him for murder.
Attempts to take the town previously had led to heavy losses and frequent back-pedalling by anti-Gaddafi fighters who were outgunned by the 2,000 dug-in loyalists that are thought to have remained. Gaddafi stronghold Bani Walid falls
The latest twist in a deteriorating relationship between police and loyalist activists was contained in a statement issued to Sunday Life yesterday.
Life was no less difficult for Loyalist families in the Middle Atlantic States. History of American Women
However, the security services consistently had a much higher rate of arrest against loyalists than nationalists.
However, he alienated hard-line loyalists without offering substantive concessions to the Ulster Catholics.
But it does give this Clinton loyalist a bit of a chuckle to see Senator Obama breaking bread with Chris Wallace and, in classic Washingtonese, trying to show how he doesn't think the GOP folks are all that bad. Obama Doesn't "Take Fox On," After All
Per capita, Britain sent twenty-five times the number of migrants to North America compared to France, and Loyalists outnumbered the entire net French migration to Canada before 1800.
A loyalist group is understood to have claimed responsibility. Times, Sunday Times
If the security forces are not present and loyalist gunmen commit murder it is still the result of collusion.
Loyalist paramilitaries were blamed for the shooting.
Originally settled in the mid-17th century, it received a second population transfusion, of Loyalists, at the end of the American Revolution.
Driving across Belfast, I entered some of the Loyalist and Nationalist districts and began photographing murals, fascinated by the scale of the artwork and the skill of the artists.
To their surprise, though, they met significant resistance from loyalist forces.
The loyalist public relations battle had been well and truly lost and it was left to the politicians to try once again to paper over something most rotten.
Lamloom also called for more NATO airstrikes on the armories and depots where Gadhafi loyalists store their ammunition, saying they will prevent the government from shelling more civilian targets. NATO Airstrike a ‘Warning’ to Libyan Government Loyalists, Say Rebels
The Ardoyne area remained tense last night as nationalists and loyalists braced themselves for more clashes following two nights of trouble.
Loyalists knew they were fighting a dark, largely unheroic war, directed against defenceless civilians.
And the man, if such there be, who was born on this soil and sprung from such an ancestry as the early colonial settlers and United Empire Loyalists, or from the loins of settlers of a later generation, who is not proud of his country and of being called a British American, is unworthy of his race and the land of his birth, and unworthy of having his name classed with that of the noble Iroquois (Paul Guidon.) Young Lion of the Woods A Story of Early Colonial Days
I being in such a position in the colony, and considering the fact that Madam Cavendish and Catherine were staunch loyalists, and would have sent all their tobacco to the bottom of the salt sea had the king so ordained, and regarded all disaffection from the royal will as a deadly sin against God and the Church, as well as the throne, and knowing the danger which Mary Cavendish ran, I was in a sore quandary. The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
The only delegates from the Russian side were Kremlin loyalists.
The rebel forces have been repeatedly attacked by loyalist troops.
Then in a televised speech Thursday, Maliki, who had begun the week welcoming the protest, urged people to stay away, saying the event seemed "suspicious" and was likely to be infiltrated by al-Qaeda or perhaps loyalists of Sadaam Hussein's Baath Party or "terrorists" seeking to co-opt it for their own purposes. Anxiety and hope ahead of Iraq 'Day of Rage' protest
It soon deteriorated into fierce clashes between pro-opposition forces and loyalist troops that now divide this battle-scarred city between them. In bid to revive protests, Yemenis rush to martyrdom
He's a diehard loyalist and a campaigner known for his inimitable style.
Although not stating so much at this point, this list of conjoined opposites will eventually also encompass Protestant and Catholic, Loyalist and Republican, Nationalist and Unionist.
He removed entrenched ministers in favor of his own loyalists and installed a close aide in the office of the new prime minister.
Two-thirds of loyalists are optimistic about the future. Times, Sunday Times

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