Word: loyalist
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...after months of violent political upheaval and seven years of rule by former PM Thaksin Shinawatra (now in exile) and his party. Weeks after a Thai court dissolved the ruling party for fraud, parliament voted 235 to 198 in favor of Vejjajiva, the middle-class candidate, over a Thaksin loyalist supported by the rural poor...
...choosing former campaign communications director Robert Gibbs as his new White House Press Secretary, Barack Obama tapped an ultra-loyalist who has spent the past few years wedded to the candidate's side. Very few staffers are as close to Obama, so much so that campaign spokeswoman Linda Douglass has referred to Gibbs as "the Barack Whisperer." (Read "Inside Obama's Idea Factory in Washington...
...Waterworth has been the target of more than 30 death threats from loyalist and republican paramilitary groups and says his family home has been bombed three times. He is not alone. A total of 29 prison officers from the Maze were murdered during the Troubles and an estimated 50 officers from Northern Ireland jails committed suicide during the same period...
...supporters who lost relatives in the post-election violence seeking vengeance. "It is unfortunate that these violent acts are occurring at a time when we are beginning a new era in the country and such behavior does not make the cooperation between the parties succeed," Justice Minister and Mugabe loyalist Patrick Chinamasa told the state-owned Herald newspaper...
...Recent post: Video of a meeting of the separatist Alaskan Independence Party in which the group's vice chairman says Sarah Palin was an AIP loyalist, but had to distance herself from the party in order to get elected...