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But if you had asked Gerry Adams or Martin McGuinness in 1985 whether they would have been prepared to sit down with unionists in what Republicans would have called a partitionist assembly, they would have looked at you in disbelief.

Hamas must reshape itself David Hearst 2010

International Crisis Group - Can Cyprus buck the partitionist trend?

Linkspam for 21-7-2009 nwhyte 2009

The country is a cobbling together of regional, religious, and ethnic nationalisms, and its founding, in 1947, resulted in Pakistan's becoming, along with Israel, one of the two "faith-based" states to emerge from the partitionist policy of a dying British colonialism.

Michael Hughes: Balkanizing Pakistan: A Collective National Security Strategy 2010

Just as was pointed out 32 months ago, the American occupation has been thrown into alliance with Iranian-backed partitionist Shia formations (by pressure from Sadr, actually), though it cannot afford the dangers inhering in Iraqi partition.

Stan Goff: Good Morning, Vietnam! 2008

Aside from the obvious protectionist anti-European sentiments expressed in his words, the remarks also come across as being a tad partitionist; something that is slightly surprising given the decades long ties his family has with The Republican Party.

Archive 2008-11-01 Johnny Guitar 2008

Paul Bew has written about the stealthy advance of 'partitionist history' - the way that historians project into the past the assumption of the border, with which we have all grown up, but which formally entered Irish history only in 1920.

'Luck & The Irish: A Brief History of Change From 1970' 2008

Aside from the obvious protectionist anti-European sentiments expressed in his words, the remarks also come across as being a tad partitionist; something that is slightly surprising given the decades long ties his family has with The Republican Party.

We’re on the one road. Well, sort of. Johnny Guitar 2008

One of the themes of this book concerns the extent to which the period sees the entrenchment of that partitionist history, and the acceptance of a partitionist attitude in 'the south'.

'Luck & The Irish: A Brief History of Change From 1970' 2008

Plus the fact that Labour these days are probably the most partitionist of all the major parties in the South.

Some thoughts on Fianna Fail's recent discovery of the north Johnny Guitar 2007

Adams & Co's electoral defeat is worth repetition too: "As a somewhat partitionist observer maliciously remarked to me, even with the recent remarkable improvement in Irish-British relations, the people of this State are not yet ready to welcome the intervention of a member of the British parliament in the domestic political affairs of this State!"

Don't Complain... 2007