Word: creation
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...policies have succeeded. Northern Ireland is one of the few places in the British Empire where colonialism reached its intended fruition. Whereas in other colonies the British never established their own people firmly enough, or inevitably alienated them when they did, in Ulster they were completely effective in their creation of Protestant plantations. The Protestants subordinated and supplanted the native (and hostile) Catholic population, and established themselves as the loyal majority. To the discomfiture of the British government, they have remained steadfastly loyal ever since...
...historians would dispute that in the heyday of colonialism the British government consciously cultivated religious antagonisms. A good case might be made that it continued to do so until very recently. Certainly its support of the Unionist political machine which controlled Northern Ireland from its creation with an iron hand until the troubles began demonstrates a very self-benefiting partiality in terms of retaining the province. No honest observer of the situation in Ulster during those years could have overlooked the undemocratic and oppressive nature of the Protestant-dominated provincial government at Stormont, but it is possible--and there...
...recommended in his report on the Lampoon racial controversy last May, Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, last week announced the creation of a committee on race relations at Harvard College. The interracial student-faculty committee would meet throughout the year to review the nature of race relations at the College and then publish recommendations for action in the spring...
Gregory Henderson, professor of Diplomacy at Tuft's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, said yesterday the Phillipine government does not require the creation of any specific programs, but only that the funds be used in East Asian studies...
Pierce, an Engineering concentrator, takes a somewhat harder line. He says, "I don't buy this stuff about man being descended from apes and monkeys. That's very dehumanizing. Evolution is only a theory and there's as much evidence for creation as for evolution...