Thus, our results suggest that in pac10Δ, whi3Δ, fen1Δ and srn2Δ cells hyper-activation of the CWI pathway in response to cell wall stress conditions is an indirect effect, although a direct regulation cannot be ruled out completely.
Peter Mandelson, Northern Ireland Secretary for Mr. Blair, warned that if the vote went against Mr. Trimble, the home-rule government would come to an end, direct rule from London would be restored and Britain would permit Dublin a far greater say in the affairs of the North than Protestants would want.
That in turn would most likely lead to a restoration of direct rule from London, an outcome that has become increasingly palatable to the pro-British Protestants.
Robinson then asked U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron to call for a temporary halt in devolved power and a return to direct rule by Parliament over Northern Ireland, but Cameron refused.
It proposed an end to direct rule from Paris and a vote on independence, to be held in 1998.
An important change has taken place in its political culture: traditionally Ulster's most devolutionist party, most of its supporters now prefer a form of direct rule.
Gerry Adams, president of Sinn Fein, the political arm of the I.R.A., said the prospect of a return to direct rule was the greatest threat yet to the Northern Ireland peace agreement and would deepen the quandary over weapons.
I can't conceive of a request for direct rule again from London ever to be made from Northern Ireland's politicians, any more than I could see Wales or Scotland making that request.
There was a break in direct rule from Constantinople in 688 when Justinian II and the caliph ʿAbd al-Malik signed an unusual treaty neutralizing the island, which had been subject to Arab raids.
The protesters appear to have no demands other than restoring the flag, though one hothead has called for a return to direct rule from Westminster in effect, tearing up the country's fragile peace.
