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He remained active in the Ulster Unionists for some years and was the party's unsuccessful candidate in the bitter April 1981 by-election in Fermanagh and South Tyrone caused by the death of the sitting MP Frank Maguire, West received 29, 046 votes and was defeated by Bobby Sands standing on an Anti-H-Block / Armagh Political Prisoner ticket with 30, 493 votes, Sands died twenty-six days after his election.
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The Atari 7800 remained officially active in the United States between 1986 and 1991 and in Europe between 1989 and 1991.
He has remained active in politics by campaigning for Democratic candidates, most notably for his wife's campaign for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, and then Barack Obama's presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2012.
The reincorporation of Cuba as an active member had arisen regularly as a topic within the inter-American system ( e. g., it was intimated by the outgoing ambassador of Mexico in 1998 ) but most observers did not see it as a serious possibility while the Socialist government remained in power.
After his return he left active service but remained at half pay.
The British remained in control of the Delaware River for much of the rest of the war, disrupting commerce and providing encouragement to an active Loyalist portion of the population, particularly in Sussex County.
With most of the population remaining active in ( or indirectly dependent on ) the agricultural sector, the main pressure in most areas remained land clearing for crop and cattle farming.
He has remained active well into his nineties, with roles in recent films such as Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and The Ghost Writer.
Hubble continued his research at the Mount Wilson and Mount Palomar Observatories, where he remained active until his death.
After the Civil War, Douglass remained active in the United States ' struggle to reach its potential as a " land of the free ".
He was one of the early members of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, and remained active in it for many decades.
The Russians remained active on the south-eastern front, however, defending the approaches to Petrograd.
Earning a Bachelor of Arts in Economics with his graduation from Pitt in 1933, he remained active with the Cap and Gown Club, serving as its director from 1934 to 1938, while at the same time enrolling in the University of Pittsburgh Law School.
He took an active part in parliament in 1685 and 1686, but remained a non-juror during the whole of William's reign, being frequently fined for his non-attendance, and took the oaths for the first time after Anne's accession, on 11 May 1703.
The school remained active until 1958 when Hofmann retired from teaching.
Some urban centres, for example Canterbury, Cirencester, Wroxeter, Winchester and Gloucester, remained active during the 5th and 6th centuries, surrounded by large farming estates.
He remained active, becoming a committed advocate of the new technology of Television which included serving as the first president of the Television Society.
In 1943, after the group disbanded, Sartre joined a writers ' Resistance group, in which he remained an active participant until the end of the war.
Portuguese-ruled territories, ports and settlements remained active to the south, in Mozambique, until 1975.
Satsuma remained one of the most powerful and wealthiest domains in the country throughout the period, and though international trade was banned for much of this period, the city remained quite active and prosperous.
Although communist networks in Phnom Penh and in other towns under Tou Samouth's jurisdiction fared better, only a few hundred communists remained active in the country by 1960.
However, while an ardent Liberal, Louis remained aloof from active politics for much of his life, focusing instead on his legal career and family.
Throughout the troubled period, commercial and cultural relations remained active.
Weber also remained active in the Verein and the Evangelical Social Congress.
Mao also remained active in school politics, in 1915 becoming elected to the position of secretary of the Students Society.
remained and Ulster
IRA attacks on Catholics who joined the RUC, and the perception that the police force was " a Protestant force for a Protestant people " meant that Catholic participation in the Royal Ulster Constabulary always remained disproportionally small in terms of the Catholic percentage of the overall Northern Irish population.
Six of Ireland's north-eastern counties, all within the Province of Ulster, remained within the United Kingdom as Northern Ireland.
* The Ulster Unionists ' resistance to All-Ireland self-government remained unresolved, and no account was taken of its reservations to what it saw as Catholic rule from Dublin.
It remained a major landowner there until the 20th century, and the villages contain some of the most interesting buildings erected in Ulster by the Plantation companies.
Rejecting O ' Brien's initiatives, the Redmond-Dillon-Devlin hardline alliance remained uncompromising – " no concessions for Ulster ".
He remained inflexible at various meetings, including the Buckingham Palace Conference ’ s endeavour to settle the problem of Ulster.
Dunlop remained as MP for Mid Ulster until the 1983 general election but did not contest his seat.
The 1175 Treaty of Windsor, brokered by St Lawrence O ' Toole with Henry II, formalized the submission of the Gaelic clans that remained in local control, like the Uí Conchobair who retained Connacht and the Uí Néill who retained most of Ulster.
By 1912 Protestant influence remained strong in Ulster, based not on farmland but on new industries that had been developed after 1800.
A member of the famous O ' Neill dynasty, Sir Felim was the grandson of Sir Henry Og MacShane O ' Neill and great-grandson of Henry MacShane O ' Neill, one of the O ' Neills who remained in Ulster after the Flight of the Earls despite the difficulties brought on by land confiscation and the Plantation of Ulster.
After the collapse of the Earldom of Ulster in 1333, the castle remained the Crown's principal residential and administrative centre in the north of Ireland.
Most fled back to Ulster, though a few remained to continue the war with O ’ Sullivan Beare and Dermot Maol MacCarthy Reagh.
He remained relatively unscathed by the The Troubles as his Protestant parents kept a firm watch on their children to ensure that they did not stray far from home and that none of them became involved with Ulster loyalism.
When the line was closed in 1957 they were sold to the Ulster Transport Authority ( UTA ), with whom they remained in service until the 1960s.
Afterwards West remained a member of the Ulster Unionist Council and was highly critical of his successor, James Molyneaux, for his opposition to proposals for power sharing devolution.
This was primarily due to the fact the Ulster Volunteers remained inadequately armed as the weapons shipment contained three different types of weapon along with a lack of proper ammunition for them.
However, although Jones reported to the English Parliament that he was now in a position to re-conquer Ireland, in fact, he remained confined to Dublin and its environs, which were systematically raided and burned by Owen Roe O ' Neill and the Irish Ulster Army.
In 1607 the senior Gaelic Chiefs of Ulster left Ireland to recruit support in Spain but failed, and instead eventually arrived in Rome where they remained for the rest of their lives ( See: Flight of the Earls ).
Only Ulster remained independent, but this was not to last.
Two other Ulster counties also remained part of the UK, despite having Irish nationalist ( pro-independence ) majorities.
He was an important figure in the plantation of Ulster, essentially settling his estate with large numbers of Protestants from the Scottish lowlands ( though he himself remained an important patron of Catholic monastic foundations in his lands ).
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