1.   Blair and Ahern said they could not force the Protestant politicians to resume sharing power with Sinn Fein.

2.   Blair hopes to persuade Protestant politicians to drop their objection to letting Sinn Fein take its Cabinet seats before the IRA begins disarming.

3.   But it also makes the body susceptible to obstruction by Protestant politicians opposed to carrying out the peace accord.

4.   But heavy responsibility also rests with Protestant politicians, including David Trimble of the mainstream Ulster Unionist Party.

5.   But officials and analysts, particularly Protestant politicians, said the statement was tantamount to a threat.

6.   But officials and experts said his words were aimed at reassuring Protestant politicians that the IRA cease-fire was genuine.

7.   Even hardline Protestant politicians expressed revulsion at the attack.

8.   He pointed out where the most militant of all Protestant politicians, the Rev. Ian Paisley, has built one of his Free Presbyterian church and school complexes.

9.   In a matter of weeks Trimble appears to have surpassed the Rev. Ian Paisley as the Protestant politician leading the fight to keep the North a part of Britain.

10.   It was rejected almost immediately by Protestant politicians of the Ulster Unionist Party and publicly ignored by Sinn Fein.