Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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But Catholic and Protestant politicians are equally skeptical
The new proposals call for an Ulster government to be composed of an executive branch and an 80-member Assembly, elected on the basis of proportional representation. Catholics make up about one-third of Ulster's population of 1.5 million. Since they would form a permanent minority in the...
On the whole, initial reactions from Ulster's political leaders were not encouraging. The Official Unionists' craggy-faced leader, James Molyneaux, warned against adopting a "rigged Assembly" and reminded fellow M.P.s of the fate of a similar power-sharing plan that was wrecked by a Protestant-organized general...
* The Russian Orthodox, the 4 million or more other Eastern Orthodox and the 43 million Muslims in the Soviet Union are much less harassed than the 2 million Soviet Jews, 4 million Roman Catholics and a small percentage of the country's 3 million Protestants who bitterly resist all...
In a remarkable way, The Shining is also a study of marriage in America, a bloody Kramer V. Kramer. Jack Torrance bows to the pressures of the Protestant ethic, sacrificing the love and emotion in his marriage to dreams of success and security. Clearly, Jack and Wendy are incompatible, yet...