Sentence examples for unionist partner from inspiring English sources
Republicans want the Stormont Assembly to survive, and they need a unionist partner to ensure that it does.
The delicate balance of trust that exists between Sinn Fein and their unionist partners in the administration, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), stood to be shattered.
It has also poisoned further the already toxic relationship between the DUP, the single biggest unionist party, with their partners in the five-party power sharing coalition in Belfast.
It was one of at least half a dozen such unionist experiments, with a variety of partners, which foundered on the rocks of the would-be partners' infirmity of purpose, fear, suspicion and disdain of this bizarre, arrogant, impetuous upstart.
Indeed Lord Maginnis might recall that when King was still working for the Ulster Unionist party he married his long-term partner in a gay civil ceremony in England.
Its fate has hinged increasingly in recent months on a bitter impasse between the unionists and their principal partners in the unity government, the mostly Catholic republicans, over the long-delayed transfer to the Belfast government of police and justice powers held by the British government.
New Century Media, headed by the former Northern Ireland unionist MP David Burnside, has made introductions with David Cameron for Vasily Shestakov, Putin's judo partner and an MP in the Russian Duma who had been given the job of improving Russia's reputation in the UK.
"Walking out of talks with their partners in government and demanding that the British secretary of state imposes a unionist solution can only raise tension and inflame the situation".
Barack Obama has given a surprise boost to the unionist campaign ahead of the Scottish independence referendum, breaking ranks on the US's impartial position to call on Britain to remain "a strong, robust, united and effective partner".
