Afterwards, unionists accused Sinn Fein, the SDLP and Alliance of attacking their cultural identity.
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Further closures are expected later this year at Wilton Street, St Georges Road and Alliance Lane.
However, the UUP, SDLP and Alliance complained they had been kept in the dark over the proposals.
But the plan was blocked by nationalists and Alliance, who boycotted a meeting to discuss the proposal.
So both on the security front and on the economic front, our friendship and alliance continues to grow.
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Sinn Fein, the SDLP and Alliance voted against a change to the council's policy while unionist members voted in favour.
Last Friday I discussed the Belfast City Council flags dispute with the DUP's Nigel Dodds and Alliance's Naomi Long on Inside Politics.
The SDLP and Alliance Party are expected to vote against the budget, although the DUP, Sinn Fein and Ulster Unionists are set to back it.
And Mr Maskey's request for a nomination to the deputy's post from among the remaining Sinn Fein, SDLP and Alliance councillors was met with silence.
And by autumn, if not before, Italy will be limbering up for yet another bout of in-fighting and alliance-making in the approach to the general election.
The SDLP and Alliance said the decision by the agreed unionist and Sinn Fein candidates not to appear on BBC NI's The View was "bizarre and unusual".
The DUP, SDLP, UUP and Alliance Party have met regularly over the last two months and have agreed a set of principles with which to move forward.
They want the Assembly Commission to consider the issue but so far it has been unable to meet because Sinn Fein the SDLP and Alliance have refused to attend.
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Obviously, the United States should disallow the signing of any binding contracts on Chevron's joint venture until such U.S. and alliance-wide reviews are completed and reported in detail to Congress.
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This offers enormous potential for Walgreen and Alliance Boots.
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The joint Green Party and Alliance motion was opened by Anna Lo who said the four licences for exploration for hydraulic fracturing, known as "fracking", had been granted despite a "severe deficiency of research".
NewAlliance Bancshares, Inc. ( NAL) is the holding company for New Alliance Bank, formed from the conversion of New Haven Saving Bank and the acquisition of Connecticut Bancshares and Alliance Bancorp of New England.
The banks arranging the Chrysler and Alliance loan packages have decided to hold them on balance sheet and wait until the fall to see if investors are willing to jump back into the loan market.
At the same time dozens of deals like the Chrysler and Alliance Boots loans, have been postponed or canceled in the weeks since investors started getting spooked about credit quality concerns in the mortgage bond markets.
The idea behind the multi-billion-dollar global partnership between Walgreen (WAG) and Alliance Boots is designed to capitalize on emerging markets that are spending much more on health care and looking to access safe and effective medicines.
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The committee's other recommendation, that policy development grants should depend on a party's strength at Stormont, not just the number of MPs who take their Westminster seats, reads like good news for Sinn Fein, the Ulster Unionists and Alliance.
We all watched the remarkable election, and I offered him hardy congratulations and assured him that the friendship and alliance between the United States and France is not only of extraordinary importance to me but is deeply valued by the American people.
Among the largest underlying components of FAS, in trading today Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. ( NYSE: ARE) is down about 2%, Alleghany Corp. ( NYSE: Y) is up about 0.5%, and Alliance Data Systems Corp. ( NYSE: ADS) is higher by about 0.5%.
That won't stop the DUP playing that card closer between now and polling day, but it sits uncomfortably alongside the clear image of them, Sinn Fein and Alliance as the "team players" (to borrow Martin McGuinness's phrase) ranged against the UUP and SDLP "internal opposition".
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Most explanations of the Belfast union flag dispute have focussed on the manoeuvring by the city's councillors - how nationalists pushed for the flag's removal, unionists launched a leafleting campaign to put pressure on the Alliance, and Alliance stuck to its middle way of opting for designated days.
And although that friendship and alliance has to continually be renewed and reshaped in light of new circumstances, the core values and the shared vision at the heart of our alliance remains strong, and I am very confident that working with Prime Minister Kan, we are going to be able to continue to build on that tremendous history over the last 50 years.
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And those are the kinds of issues we will address both in our partnership meetings tomorrow with our ISAF partners, but the -- a core partner meeting that the President will be present with all the other leaders of 13 countries who are making significant political and military and other contributions to Alliance operations and what the Alliance does.
So this stop will be essentially a reaffirmation of the strength of the relationship and the alliance, and looking ahead.
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