Word: staunch
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Declaring himself a staunch Unionist, Major insisted Northern Ireland could never merge with the republic ``in defiance of the will of the majority.'' For now, any referendum in the North would keep Ulster a part of Britain because Protestants make up about 60% of the population. But demographics are changing, and sometime within perhaps the next 30 years, Catholics could match or surpass Protestants number. The prospect may impel Unionists to consider the more flexible tactics the framework offers...
Gramm is neither Speaker of the House nor majority leader of the Senate. His place in the revolution's vanguard was secured by virtue of his role as the True Believer, a title he alone can claim among his presidential rivals. He would have voters see him as the staunch ideologue whose time has finally come, an uncompromising conservative even in the darkest days of Democratic hegemony. In announcing his candidacy, Gramm played up his co-authorship of the ill-fated Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction plan, as well as his unbending resistance to the Clinton health-care plan. In these...
...President's threat of a veto notwithstanding. And a growing bipartisan chorus continued voicing dissatisfaction with the President's $40 billion emergency-loan-guarantee package for Mexico, which many characterized as a bailout for wealthy investors. The President, meanwhile, indicated that he would wait and sound out his staunch Republican foes before proposing a specific increase in the minimum wage...
...president of the United Mine Workers, who criticized the Kerrey-Danforth proposal for relying too heavily on cutting benefits and not enough on tightening tax subsidies, to Representative Bill Archer, the Texas Republican who next month will assume the chair of the Ways and Means Committee and is a staunch defender of corporate tax breaks. Both Kerrey and Danforth told TIME they are skeptical they can marshal the requisite 20 votes necessary to forward a formal report to the President...
...days before President Clinton unveils a middle-class tax cut to staunch the bleeding from his party's November defeat, House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt of Missouri proposed his own lower- and middle-income tax break, then slammed Republicans as "trickle-down terrorists." Gephardt denied he was trying to upstage Clinton, but said "there will be and probably can be times when we are not going to agree and House Democrats are going to have our own proposals." Implicit in the remarks: Clinton shoulders much of the blame for Democrats' failure to "speak to the growing sense of insecurity" among...