Sentence examples for first unionist from inspiring English sources

He became the first unionist leader to sense the tectonic shift in politics leading to the earthquake of May 1 1997 when New Labour stormed to power.

The guerrillas may have indeed begun with the intent of protecting their homes, which explained their particular animosity toward Kansas, as the first Unionist incursions into Missouri came from that state – Quantrill supposedly recommended to Seddon that "Kansas should be laid waste at once" – but a cycle of revenge and retaliation was soon established.

Cllr Stevenson was the first unionist elected to Ballymoney Borough Council to attend a Loughgiel game and afterwards he discovered his family link to the club.

Their manifesto of April 26 April 133), reviewed for publishing by the Transylvanian poet Octavian Goga, was signed by 250 officers and 250 soldiers, and is probably the first unionist statement to be issued by a Transylvanian representative body.

The third unionist way - the acceptance by Trimble et al that the IRA move was a major step - itself represents a break from the past, a chance to forget the crimes committed in the name of the Republic and move on.

In Newry and Armagh, Sinn Féin's Mickey Brady saw off the challenge of candidates including the UUP's Danny Kennedy - his party's second unionist unity candidate in its pact with the DUP - and former Armagh Gaelic footballer Justin McNulty of the SDLP.

A year earlier at Labour's pre-election conference in Blackpool Trimble broke with tradition and became the first ever unionist chief to address the party.

Gove, who was raised in Aberdeen, was firmly in the "No" camp during last year's referendum on independence, but the first truly unionist king came after the end of the medieval period, when James VI of Scotland became James I of England and Ireland in 1603.

Jeffrey Donaldson said she needed to respond first to unionist proposals on parading.

Perhaps a third, rival unionist party could emerge, one with more legitimacy among voters.

This, as the journalist Alf Young observed, made the SNP leader "five sixths a unionist", but the story he told was large and could therefore contain multitudes.