Sentence examples for unionist power from inspiring English sources
He has failed, as a political leader, to engage his own community in debate about the limitations of unionist power.
To Tom Paulin and Hugh Haughton, Mahon's mushrooms give a voice to the victims of political violence, while to Seamus Heaney the mushrooms are identified with Unionist power, speaking with the "pre-natal throats" of Mahon's Protestant ancestors.
It stands at a crossroads between an understandable desire to retain unionist power on the streets, at a time when it has been forfeited in government, and a lesser, but nonetheless significant role as the expression of the values, religious and moral, of the whole Protestant community.
If, as Jean Baudrillard said, power is founded largely on disgust, then unionist power was built on disgust at the idea of ethnic Britons being governed by anyone other than Britain; the creation of Northern Ireland consolidated that power.
Moreover, the gamblers in Sinn Féin look across the cabinet table to the largest unionist force, the Democratic Unionists, and see a party deeply fearful about shipping votes to the rightwing and anti-power-sharing ultras of Traditional Unionist Voice.
As a military organisation, it was supposed to have dissolved under a deal in 2005 that eventually led to unionists sharing power with their one-time republican enemies.
That agreement collapsed in May 1974 because of a general strike inspired by unionist opponents of power sharing.
It would be shortsighted and reckless if internal unionist rivalries brought power-sharing down, even for a limited period.
But it cannot be pretended that recent republican violence has not handed another excuse to unionist sceptics of power-sharing.
But direct rule was reimposed when that agreement collapsed in May 1974 because of a general strike inspired by unionist opponents of power-sharing.
The accord envisaged an executive in which the Unionists would share power with Sinn Fein, the IRA's political wing, and Northern Ireland's other political parties.
