So, again, unionists calculated on the basis of a less favourable future.
Other responses were shaped by specific nationalist and unionist agendas.
In the economy, he undertook extensive efforts to bring industrialists and trades unionists together for the good of the nation.
In its initial use of regulations the unionist government drew most heavily on measures aimed at averting immediate violence and civil unrest.
This was particularly true on the unionist side.
On the one hand, communal competition for votes on the unionist-nationalist dimension is intensified.
This, of course, makes the political calculus simple and the number of unionist/nationalist controlled councils relatively easy to predict.
This was necessary if reconciliation between unionists and nationalists was to occur.
