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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But his good loyalist credentials could not save him when he departed from the narrow path.
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During a meeting at the Diamond police restrained attempts by loyalist and Catholic youths to break through their fines.
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He would be revered for his ability to balance the party loyalists and the independent voters.
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In June 1969 a proposed Connolly commemoration parade through Belfast city centre was bitterly opposed by loyalists.
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In response to demands for figures of loyalists arrested, the police first announced that 130 nationalists and seventy-five loyalists were arrested.
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Paisley was developing a distinctive political position which stressed the religious element in the conflict between nationalist and loyalist .
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Protestant loyalists dominated the statelet from its formation.