"The Ian Paisley of those days was an Ian Paisley that was keeping together a unionist community that felt it was under fire, that it had no friends to help it constitutionally, that its representatives were being picked off, there was genocide along the border," he said.
She has argued to abolish tenure, calling it "no friend to women" because the trial period leading up to the tenure decision usually coincides with childbearing years, pressuring many women to choose between a family and career.
It has proved itself no friend of the city's cultural heritage.In this section A red line and a reeling rial Down (just a bit) with the price An endless debate over religion's role Better than nothing Scrolls under threat It's not over yet ReprintsEarlier this year it began smashing ancient tombs in Timbuktu on the ground that they were idolatrous.
It gained no friends for Austria among the Western powers but lost considerable goodwill that Tsar Nicholas I had earlier harboured for Franz Joseph.
It has no friends among even the non-party-political royal colleges, and has no mandate in those areas where it goes beyond the coalition agreement.
Meanwhile, Moscow knows it has no friends in Kiev, but everyone also knows that Moscow has a lot of leverage both before and after the Ukrainian poll.
Coal is cheap, but it has no friends.
Once again, I'd come out of it with no friends, mild tinnitus and a furry blue tongue.
Now Julio Vasconcellos over at Armchairfounder has noticed how Orkut managed to fix their bug while still making it harder for members to switch to Facebook: the tool works, but it no longer includes your friends' Email addresses.
To make that case is the historical role of the Catholic Church — it is no friend, and will never be, to liberal politics or liberal polities, but it is a voice for values and virtues that may well elude the liberal millennium.
