How To Use Unionist In A Sentence

Now, from the left, comes a ragtag assortment of college kids, labor unionists, conspiracy theorists and others who've taken to the streets in protests dubbed "Occupy Wall Street.
The nationalist people lived in the shadow of the Unionist monolith for fifty years until the events of the 1960's occurred.
The results exposed deepening sectarian polarisation between nationalist and unionist voters.
Some Democratic Unionists do precisely this by, for example, listing their active involvement with the Orders on their election literature.
Alderman Lewis, a trade unionist and local Labour politician from the Midlands.

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But it suits Nationalists and unionists alike to maintain the fiction of an indivisible UK health service.
If this force is hijacked by the likes of this man and those who vilify trade unionists emerging from the rubble of a tyranny, then there really is no hope at all.
The results exposed deepening sectarian polarisation between nationalist and unionist voters.
Just read the Letters page of this newspaper, full of fulminations against the unionists and the Democratic Unionists.
Eight anarchist trade unionists were arrested: four were hanged, one committed suicide in prison and the remaining three were eventually pardoned.
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.
Longshoremen rank with teamsters in the lore of hard-nosed trade unionists and Hobsbawm preferred their leader's politics.
Sumter surrendered, it was Jubal Early, later to become an army general fighting for the Confederacy, who spoke out for the unionists. Great drama at Virginia secession convention
The new Liberal Unionist group he attached himself to never made it up with the rump of the Liberal Party, and eventually allied with the Conservatives.
As the Protestant middle classes began to withdraw from Unionist politics, the quality of the candidates sank and the party stagnated.
The military carries out regular security patrols in Unionist and Loyalist areas on foot or in police or army vehicles.
Once upon a time, back in the late 1970s boom, when many of today's commentators, politicians, central bankers and trade unionists learned their economics, the economy could be allegorised as a fashionable restaurant.
There was widespread acknowledgement that the absence of the Unionist parties had created a partial vacuum.
Among Greeks the word "unionist" is rendered as "enotist" — someone who supports enosis, or union, between Greece and John Bull's other European colony, Cyprus. The Perils of Partition
It was Madison, they note, who nudged Jefferson out of retirement after his wife's death in 1782, initiated the criticisms of Hamilton that Jefferson continued in the early 1790s, was the "driving force" behind Jefferson's candidacy for the presidency in 1796, and helped reverse Jefferson's dangerously disunionist impulses three years later, after the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions had failed to rally the states against the Alien and Sedition Acts. Partners in revolution
Nobody knows how many trade unionists will take the transfer into the Labour Party. Times, Sunday Times
The Industrial Workers of the World was formed under the leadership of socialists like Eugene V. Debs and radical industrial unionists like William D. (Big Bill) Haywood (18691928), head of the Western Federation of Miners. 1905
As was noted earlier, elections in Northern Ireland itself have always produced clear majorities in favour of Unionist government.
Only members of the Democratic Unionist party invariably refer to Derry as Londonderry.
It hasn't made any concessions to unionism or unionists.
Party activists and trade unionists were going to inflict a string of defeats on the leadership on key policy areas.
The selection process for the Conservatives and Unionists candidates for the various N. Irish Westminster constituencies is presently trundling along - Chekov echoes a few of my own doubts about the possible final outcome in this post over at Open Unionism. May the best (or loudest) Conservative and Unionist win?
Many Unionists are members of the anti-Catholic Orange Order.
This system of direct rule by proxy enraged the Unionist right and eventually unleashed a downward spiral of loyalist reaction and republican assertiveness.
He is part stroppy trade unionist, part renaissance man with his broad range of interests from media work to hotels to coaching. Times, Sunday Times
He declared: "I do not believe that every Breckinridge man is a disunionist, but I do believe that every disunionist in America is a Breckinridge man. The Life of Abraham Lincoln
They are being used by unionist opponents of the peace process, and by the securocrats, to oppose demilitarisation.
As members of a non-sectarian party, Ford and his colleagues argued that it would be ‘difficult to stomach’ rebranding themselves as unionists or nationalists for longer than a day.
A boundary extension would require new electoral boundaries and these could not easily be adjusted soas to retain Unionist minority control.
As usual, many protesters against economic globalisation in its present form will be unionists, and ALP members.
There is a fear former miners and unionists may try to disrupt the funeral by chanting and hanging offensive banners. The Sun
The main reason the trade unionists failed in the U.K. was probably because their culture, one of an absolute, rationalist belief in egalitarianism, jibbed so badly with British culture it was bound to invoke the greatest antagonisms eventually. Matthew Yglesias » EFCA in International Comparison
The unionist campaign has been pretty dismal. Times, Sunday Times
Leaders of the Protestant/unionist community need to make this a little more clear.
His contribution to the stability of the country at that time has been acknowledged by Nigerian politicians, businessmen and trade unionists. Times, Sunday Times
The question then arises, how did these activists develop such a consciousness as waged workers and trade unionists?
the federal government replaced the powerfully pro-settler Sir Godfrey Huggins with the even tougher and more determined ex-trade unionist
Northern Ireland's overwhelmingly Catholic republicans want the province united with the Irish Republic, while the mostly Protestant unionists want it to remain part of the UK.
Nationalists and unionists are expected to be given time to examine the outline of a British-Irish deal, raising the likelihood that the May 1 elections will be extended by anything up to a month.
Many unionists, including Northern Ireland's prime minister, James Chichester-Clark, also thought the Irish army would try to seize nationalist majority towns such as Newry and the west bank of Derry. Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
Some, previously only marginally interested, developed a consciousness as trade unionists and became committed activists.
Here was a chance to have a dig at trade unionists.
The result was an unwieldy and complex organization of all social classes and all shades of unionist opinion.
She was much beloved of many here, although unionists had many problems with her irreverence and perceived sympathy for Irish nationalism.
These organisations gave him the opportunity to win the trust of the senior trade unionists of that difficult period of industrial unrest. Times, Sunday Times
Even more ambitious attempts to bring trade unionists and community activists together in educational settings have taken place at Northern College.
Politically and industrially Alec was a socialist, a trade unionist, and an anti-fascist.
It fears that its voters, particularly the younger generation, will desert the party if it is seen to capitulate to a unionist agenda.
Slaves helped Unionists evade conscription, and both groups spied and scouted for Federal troops.
The irony is that the most compelling arguments for fiscal freedom come not from Nationalists but from Unionists.
Labour is a unionist party - nobody disputes this – so is the Liberal Democrat Party but neither feels the need to use the word unionist in their official name. The Key to a Scottish Tory Revival
The name hasnt been mentioned because it is the honest response of a senior unionist politician who is too cowardly to show his face. Politics.ie - 3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,27,28,29,30,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,41,42,48,49,50,52
We need to look at something that is not driven just by ideology, or that is the politically correct approach of this Government - a bunch of trade unionists who now want to unionise everyone.
C'mon, just how pathetic is this unionist response to Scotland finally waking up and asserting herself? Calman- "imaginative" and "bold"?
Reid himself argued that, if the roles had been reversed, nationalists may well have behaved in much the same way to unionists as unionists had behaved to them.
Even more ambitious attempts to bring trade unionists and community activists together in educational settings have taken place at Northern College.
Though the movement soon after coming to power crushed independent-minded trade unionists, often dubbed as "Trotskyists," many of Angola's relatively detribalized urban workers also looked toward the MPLA. Inside Angola
It's hard not to reach the conclusion that many unionists have effectively given up on successfully unionising the private sector, and are therefore engaged in a desperate bid to hold onto the security of the public sector.
In the European election there was some suggestion that although some small unionist towns like Lisbellaw (within the Enniskillen DEA) stayed loyal to the DUP, others such as Kesh and Ballinamallard and the unionist vote in the border areas of West and South Fermanagh has moved away from the DUP. Slugger O'Toole
Loyalists and Unionists tend to be Protestants, but there is such a thing as a Catholic Loyalist and a Catholic Unionist.
All constitutional parties opposed to the pact were unionist, and they had no such difficulty in uniting.
The unionist campaign has been pretty dismal. Times, Sunday Times
Some Democratic Unionists do precisely this by, for example, listing their active involvement with the Orders on their election literature.
The efforts failed due to unionist intransigence and nationalist boycott.
In recent weeks security for unionist politicians has been tightened and judges have been given increased protection, including bodyguards in court, after plots were uncovered. Times, Sunday Times
The cafe was leased from Castlereagh borough council where she was a Democratic Unionist Party representative. Iris Robinson cleared of wrongdoing by council
He was sometimes a hard drinker and a staunch trade unionist who came to Australia as a stoker in 1910 and jumped ship.
Laudable too are the recent measures by republicans aimed at reassuring unionists that the war really is over.
The official march was a sea of colour and banners drawing a diverse crowd of public sector workers, trade unionists and students. Times, Sunday Times
The other, held by many republicans, insists that British thinking on the North is, in fact, indistinguishable from that of hardline unionists and loyalists.
He had been a reform member of the city council, he had been a Greenbacker, a Labor Unionist, a Populist, a Bryanite -- and after thirty years of fighting, the year 1896 had served to convince him that the power of concentrated wealth could never be controlled, but could only be destroyed. The Jungle
Unfortunately, after republicans ratted and robbed and killed and the two governments failed to punish them with more than the odd ‘tut, tut’ unionists decided they'd been sold a pup.
For four days a furious debate raged in the convention during the day, while rival mass-meetings in the streets at night called each other "disorganizes," "bolters," "traitors," "disunionists," and Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02
During a street clash in 1912 a 73-year-old woman unionist unhorsed the Police Commissioner with her hatpin.
Party members fought side by side with trade unionists for a change in the law.
By the term subversives they mean trade unionists, socialists and other campaigners.
Unionist politicians reacted in fury to the court's ruling.
The uncompromising and terrible hatred of the trade-unionist for a scab is the hatred of a class for a traitor to that class, -- while the hatred of a trade-unionist for the militia is the hatred of a class for a weapon wielded by the class with which it is fighting. THE CLASS STRUGGLE
An unfriendly critic might conclude that Jefferson was projecting his own disunionist intentions on to his opponents, whose only "crime" was to attempt to buttress the authority of the federal government in a period of global political crisis -- and "quasi-war" with France -- when national security was in jeopardy. Thomas Jefferson, Federalist. Peter S. Onuf
It is a vote also to reduce our exports and revenue from customs, to paralyze our industry; and finally, in its ultimate results, it is a vote against the war, for repudiation and disunion, and hence every disunionist will oppose the plan of the Secretary. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
Of course it's not Ali's support for 'the resistance', the cheerful catch-all for the Saddamite fascists, the mosque-bombers, trade unionist torturers and the head-choppers, which is the problem. Late Daffodils From The Curates Garden
The thunderous declamatory tones preferred by his father, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, are absent.
Next time around this constituency, with its now rapidly changing demographics, will no longer be a safe unionist seat.
As of this day last week, the majority of unionists withdrew that support.
Most elected representatives on the unionist side have benefited from a system of selection.
The unionist, that is, has come to depend upon his union for that material prosperity and advancement which, according to the American tradition, was to be the inevitable result of American political ideas and institutions. The Promise of American Life
With secession, Philadelphia's unionists believed that the very foundation of their prosperity as a class had been placed in jeopardy.
The truth is that for Unionists the idea of paring the claws of the Irish Party offers a tempting prospect. Ireland and the Home Rule Movement
Well, not too radical actually, since trades unionists are not noted for their enthusiasm for rapid change.
Well, not too radical actually, since trades unionists are not noted for their enthusiasm for rapid change.
He was the only university printer to hold this post, and it was unusual for it to be held by a former trade unionist. Times, Sunday Times
A federal arrangement under a monarchy would be attacked by unionists as a repartition.
So far, unionists have refused to elect a deputy Lord Mayor so that Maskey, alone in the chair, will have to preside without respite throughout all council meetings.
Chapter One employs a prosopography of over one thousand trade unionists and Working Men's Party operatives based on an extensive analysis of census, tax list, probate, insolvency, and other documents. Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840
They have written vicious screeds against anti-globalization demonstrators and unionists.
Even without it the Unionists had a popular mandate such as no Westminster government has enjoyed.
In Scotland & Wales the big three represent the Union, while the Nats have their own parties, talk of throwing off the name unionist is very premature. "The people have(n't) spoken....
The Ulster Unionist security spokesman maintained a stiff upper lip as he had his moustache shaved off - for charity.
Both men married and led families with multiple children, resided (at least part of the time) in journeymen's neighborhoods within close proximity to other trade unionists, and seemed to live rather stable lives while supporting temperance, antislavery, and moral reform. Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840
Both coalition parties are strongly unionist but they took the view that being forceful in their opposition to independence would antagonise Scottish voters and play into Salmond's hands. Coalition comes out fighting against 'catastrophic' Scottish independence
Since the OP seems to be a mad unionist taig-baiting simian, this is not surprising. Politics.ie - 3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,27,28,29,30,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,41,42,48,49,50,52
The support of the traditionally diehard unionist Daily Express was to counterweigh the opposition of more recalcitrant Conservatives.
The devolved administration is facing collapse over the failure of Unionists and nationalists to agree controversial welfare reforms. The Sun
A decade ago Greenpeace Canada was roundly condemned by unionists and social justice groups when they fired a number of workers who were trying to organize the canvass office.
The new statute will stop trade unionists trying to persuade workers in unconnected companies to take sympathy action.
The government's long-term goal is to establish a series of bilateral talks involving republicans and unionists.
Some unionists especially at lower ranks are overzealous and keen to score points among members by wrongly advising the rank and file to go on strike.
The IRA and Sinn Fein and the Unionists and all of the parties are now working together.
The 120-year-old Hopwood Unionist Club allows them to become associate members, but they cannot become full members, which would admit them to the games room and grant them voting rights.
The effect was to galvanize male trade unionists to broaden their dispute. The Times Literary Supplement
Here was a chance to have a dig at trade unionists.
He was said to be with another trade unionist. Times, Sunday Times
They offer models of 'global unionism' for trade unionists and anti-capitalists everywhere.
The Liberal Democrats in particular want to re-energise the pro-unionist side of the debate because they have a number of Scottish Westminster Lib Dem MPs. Coalition comes out fighting against 'catastrophic' Scottish independence
Male trade unionists, by contrast, considered piecework anathema, for it was associated in their minds with unskilled labour, exploitative working conditions, and with a loss of control and dignity.
He has avoided affronting unionist sensibility with tribal grievance against the English and there is no sign that he is motivated by such animus. SNP: Westminster needs to take Alex Salmond seriously | Observer editorial
Such were the sixty thousand trade unionists who met in St Peter's Fields in Manchester in August 1819 and were greeted by the yeomanry, who charged at them with sabres, killing 11 and wounding around four hundred.
Trades unionist Brian Anderson helped organise a major lobby of councillors as they entered the Guildhall for last week's showdown.
Virginia unionists controlled the state secession convention from its opening in February into the early days of April.
The former trade unionist with a ready smile appears to have survived unaffected. Times, Sunday Times
Too many trade unionists in Britain want to pick a fight and it has to be said that the government is not looking very strong. Times, Sunday Times
Large numbers of trade unionists went on the anti-war demonstrations, but not in general as organised delegations.
Unionists have volunteered to go out and ring doorbells to urge people to cancel their subscriptions.
Mr Adams's defeat in the only Northern Ireland seat to change hands was widely welcomed by nationalist and Unionist politicians.
Or the collapse could all be part of a republican game plan to sow confusion among Unionists and reap the electoral rewards.
For them, devolution is little more than a cynical Unionist plot to fob the Scots off with a toytown assembly and suffocate desire for ‘real’ self-rule.
The report of the Childers Commission, arguing that Ireland had been systematically overtaxed under the union, led a section of unionist landlords to join nationalists in a campaign for financial concessions.
Hadgkiss illustrates every page of his document with unsourced quotes designed to damage the reputation of trade unionists.
Party members fought side by side with trade unionists for a change in the law.
Faced with resignation from the union or the sack, the last trade unionist left in 1989.
Party members fought side by side with trade unionists for a change in the law.
There was widespread acknowledgement that the absence of the Unionist parties had created a partial vacuum.
Liberal Unionists joined the Tories to launch the Unionist Party in Scotland in 1912.
A boundary extension would require new electoral boundaries and these could not easily be adjusted soas to retain Unionist minority control.
It was by no means paranoid to imagine the loss of two or three of the Ulster Unionist Party's regular phalanx of 15 or so MPs from the inner counties.
Unionists need to be reassured that their right to maintain a meaningful British identity and allegiance will remain secure.
The statistics also show that women unionists are significantly better off than their non unionised sisters earning on average $119 a week more.
Nationalist and unionist estates sit cheek-by-jowl in the town, with painted kerbstones marking the boundaries. Times, Sunday Times
In Scotland & Wales the big three represent the Union, while the Nats have their own parties, talk of throwing off the name unionist is very premature. "The people have(n't) spoken....
We've been reminding him of all the calumnies and vituperations and bombast he has heaped upon the trade unionists of this country in recent years.
She urges academic unionists to move away from place-based approaches to organizing and embrace new ways of creating cyber-communities and worker collectivities.
However it won't happen anytime soon, the Conservative & Unionist NF is atleast an attempt in that direction. "The people have(n't) spoken....
A major bastion of support for the policy was in fact the union movement and unionists supported it because it helped keep out cheap labour.
One explanation is that, unlike farmers and trade unionists, sexual nonconformists did not have enough of a following to legitimize their opposition to majority norms.
"Their proposals are a cynical, deceptive way to recreate some form of unionist majority rule.
Before his present comical manoeuvrings, he had made a series of thoughtful speeches on how Britishness could be recast for modern times, an issue of importance to unionists in every part of the UK.
A leading adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer was due in Bradford today to talk to trade unionists.
The Orthodox of the metropolitanate, after the Union of Brest, fanatically opposed the progress of the Unionists. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
The devolved administration is facing collapse over the failure of Unionists and nationalists to agree controversial welfare reforms. The Sun
The union is calling on trade unionists to bombard the council with messages of protest.
Among Greeks the word "unionist" is rendered as "enotist" — someone who supports enosis, or union, between Greece and John Bull's other European colony, Cyprus. The Perils of Partition
At the shoulder of the trade-unionist is the socialist, sympathizing with him, aiding him with head and hand, suggesting -- perpetually suggesting -- the necessity for political action. THE CLASS STRUGGLE
Rather, traditional trade unionists from militant areas of the private economy turned out to support a system that suits them.
I say, "ostensible," because, in fact, the paramilitaries have rarely fought guerrillas themselves, but rather, have targeted civilians struggling peacefully for social change - for example, trade unionists, peasant leaders, teachers and Catholic priests advocating for the poor. Dan Kovalik: Bush To Host Colombian Death Squad President
This is a hard thing for many Unionists to accept, but it is nonetheless true. Times, Sunday Times
But what will her intervention mean for both the unionist cause and her carefully honed image? Times, Sunday Times
Like Mayekiso, Erwin was one of the "workerist" trade unionists who helped to build the modern union movement. IOL: News
In the Whitewell area an independent candidate came second to Paisley's Democratic Unionists in recent council elections.
The unionists and community collectively transformed the picket.
The political dynamic of the peace process itself has a proportionally inverse impact on the wide spectrum of unionist sectarianism.
Not mentioned were the brand-name flags, the banners, the T-shirts, or even the tiny balaclava-wearing sashed doll, sitting atop one unionist bandsman's bass drum.
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.
Second, it can be the ground over which two groups struggle, unionists against nationalists, and so arising from not just a phenomenological, but a political, origin.
Seward's late speech at Rochester as revolutionary and disunionist. A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3
The DUP is shaping up with bullish electoral confidence in a unionist community snared in an apparently permanent quandary.
It helped socialist trade unionists distribute anti-communist literature in Germany's Soviet-controlled zone.
He called senior Unionist politicians to a meeting at Number Ten.
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.
In a gerrymander in 1923, Unionists wrested control from Nationalists, an arrangement reinforced in the 1930s.
I wrote a few months back about the possible configurations of the coming election in the Northern Ireland constituency of North Down, which until this week was represented by the only remaining MP from the Ulster Unionist Party, the former party of government under the old Stormont regime. North Down latest
What is instead being dangled in front of Ulster's Unionists is a retreat into the laager.
The leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, David Trimble, described the 175-point document "as the shoddiest piece of work I've seen in public life. Of New Blueprints And Old Orangemen
A few traders advocated secession, but most were unionists.
On top of that, he enjoys an unusually untainted popularity among activists and grass-roots trade unionists.
The Ulster Unionist said what needed to be done was for the current roles to be reversed with planners offering an opinion to Councillors and Councillors making the decision.
This is the question many rank-and-file unionists often ask when their union leaderships sell their members short.
The effect was to galvanize male trade unionists to broaden their dispute. The Times Literary Supplement
The SDLP could offer to form a coalition with the unionists and centre parties, without Sinn Fein.
He is regarded as a distinctly liberal unionist with a pluralist agenda.
And once again we have a community assembly of unionists, clergy and civil rights activists taking a stand on high moral ground.
A Scottish patriot with firmly unionist leanings. Times, Sunday Times
All constitutional parties opposed to the pact were unionist, and they had no such difficulty in uniting.
Fianna Fail's formula is that once the Unionists get down to serious discussions they will be addressed.
The construction unions were using their pension funds, which own 5 million shares of Kroger stock, to help fellow unionists draw a line in the sand against health-care rollbacks.
There is no groundswell in Britain for the Unionists in Northern Ireland.
Representatives from nationalist and unionist parties may have held ministerial office, but there was clearly no genuine effort to govern together.
They are among the many unionists who have adopted anti-war resolutions in recent weeks.
Issuing a message to unionists, he also urged them against alienating nationalists by collapsing the devolved institutions.
Unionists blew trumpets, howled him down, sprayed air freshener at him and staged walkouts to remove the quorum for a meeting.
Unionists took heart from Mr Adams' comment that his party wanted to ensure the poll took place in the best atmosphere.
He had been a reform member of the city council, he had been a Greenbacker, a Labor Unionist, a The Jungle
The war is just one issue that has sparked a raging debate among trade unionists about whether unions should continue to fund Labour while it attacks their members.
The company is expected to keep the paper's moderate pro-Unionist editorial policy.
Parks had worked closely with E.D. Nixon, a black trade unionist in Montgomery, the head of the local branch of the sleeping car porters ' union and a longtime fighter for voting rights and other issues.
On the declaration above quoted Mr. Douglas based many arguments, in vain attempts to prove that Mr. Lincoln was a disunionist. Fifty Years of Public Service

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