Sentence examples for apportioned power from inspiring English sources

The 1998 peace accord for Ulster set up a new government in Belfast that apportioned power between Protestants and Catholics in an effort to halt sectarian violence that had cost more than 3,600 deaths over three decades.

The British and Irish governments pledged to begin intensive talks with Northern Ireland's politicians starting Monday to keep Mr. Trimble's departure from bringing on the collapse of the fragile government, which was created three years ago on a formula that apportioned power among Catholics and Protestants.

At stake is the future of the Northern Ireland Assembly, formed by the 1998 accord that apportioned power among rival Protestant and Catholic parties in an effort to bring political solutions to a conflict that has cost more than 3,600 lives in the past three decades.

In one section of the transcript, an American representative lays out a proposal for apportioning power in the fund and underscores what was at stake, with the war coming to its bloody climax in Europe.

The conflict between the two "traditions" has grown over the past three decades, causing more than 3,600 deaths and prompting periodic and ultimately failed efforts at a settlement apportioning power more fairly among the Protestant majority and Catholic minority.

You've got to think about the deals you want to try to make with the different factions in Iraq now, and begin to think of how you're going to try to apportion power, and begin to prepare Americans and other countries for the postwar commitment.

The moves, disclosed in a series of statements throughout the day from Prime Minister Tony Blair, his Irish counterpart Bertie Ahern and other principals, were aimed at reviving the suspended local government that is the centerpiece of the peace agreement apportioning power between the province's Catholic minority and Protestant majority.

In contrast to some systems, though, it does not actively apportion power from side to side.

The leaders of 25 current and future members of the European Union failed to reach agreement on Saturday on a draft constitution, stumbling on a problem familiar to Americans: how to apportion power among large and small states.

But last week the Ulster Freedom Fighters, a Protestant group, announced that it no longer supported the Northern Ireland peace arrangements, which have sought to apportion power in the province among the two rival groups.

Failure to resolve these disputes has stalled the full realization of the April 1998 peace agreement, which established a legislature and home rule government and the formula for apportioning power among Protestants and Catholics.