"unionist" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Unionists opposed Home Rule for several reasons:
- The Irish Unionists, led by Sir Edward Carson, opposed home rule in the light of what they saw as an impending Roman Catholic-dominated Dublin government.
- Some Unionists opposed secession, but afterwards either actively served and fought with the Confederate armies, or supported the Confederacy in other ways.
- Unionists had also strongly opposed the proposal.
- Unionists, almost all of them Protestants, oppose the agreement because it gives Ireland a consultative role in Northern Ireland's affairs.
- As desired by the Nationalists, Asquith introduced legislation that would give Ireland Home Rule, but the Conservatives and Unionists opposed it.
- The Unionists strongly opposed many of the proposed reforms of the new Liberal governments of Campbell-Bannerman and Asquith.
- He faced no Independent Asquithian Liberal candidate and the Unionists did not oppose him, so he presumably received the Coalition coupon.
- He was unable to contest the seat as there was no general election until 1918, when the Unionists did not oppose the sitting member, a coalition Liberal.
- With Henderson's local support so high, the Unionists did not oppose him in the 1945 election.
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