noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
conservative
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The Conservative and Unionist party will fight the next general election as the party of the Union.
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It is a pledge that only the Conservative and Unionist Party can give.
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Although he had been nominated as a conservative by Protestant Unionists within the constituency, he had quickly become an O'Neill supporter.
democratic
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Some Democratic Unionists do precisely this by, for example, listing their active involvement with the Orders on their election literature.
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As a footnote to the Assembly and Convention periods, it is worth making two points about the Democratic Unionists .
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Hon. Members from the Democratic Unionist party are constantly asking me that question.
liberal
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The Liberal Unionists were admitted to the Carlton Club and a longstanding source of tension was eradicated.
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Politically Haslam was prominent in the Liberal Unionist cause.
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Very few Unionists were Nonconformists and most of these had come into the party from the Liberal Unionist side.
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All his colleagues both Liberal and Unionist , urged him to resign as it was the only solution to the difficulty.
official
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Most of the Official Unionist members at Westminster had remained close to the Faulknerites.
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Vanguard had little organization in East Belfast and the Official Unionists gave very little assistance.
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Paisley had supported him again once he had broken with the Official Unionists .
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Only those who move to the Official Unionists have continued to win elections.
protestant
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Many Protestant Unionists also had doubts about the new party.
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Other Protestant Unionists were fielded against liberal O'Neillites.
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At the next elections to the Council, Wylie continued his protest by standing as a Protestant Unionist and he was elected.
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Although he had been nominated as a conservative by Protestant Unionists within the constituency, he had quickly become an O'Neill supporter.
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The two planned by-elections gave the Protestant Unionists the opportunity they needed to maintain the momentum of their electoral challenge.
■ NOUN
leader
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Ulster Unionist leader Jim Molyneaux is billed to speak at two conference fringe meetings.
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The Unionist leader then went immediately to see Lloyd George, with whom he had conferred before his visit to the Palace.
party
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Secondly, the Ulster Unionist party felt that supplies of natural gas should be obtained for Northern Ireland.
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However, support for the Unionist Party was neither total nor uncritical.
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Harry West was elected leader of the Unionist party on 22 January, 1974.
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Paisley asserted that, had he wanted to destroy the Unionist Party , he would have fielded candidates in all the constituencies.
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In December they picketed the Guildhall and the local Unionist Party headquarters, and called on the unemployed to become more militant.
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Almost all Protestants voted for the Unionist Party and Catholics either voted for nationalists or abstained.
ulster
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The result provoked deep concern within the Ulster Unionists , long riven with divisions.
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The ball is firmly in the court of the Ulster Unionists .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And, by rooting out abuses, they actually helped the interests of ordinary Trade Unionists.
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Even assaults on the Unionists over alleged cases of discrimination could rebound.
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This was the most respectable strain of Unionist opposition to the coalition.
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When Lloyd George became prime minister in December 1916 he was backed by the Unionists in a coalition government.