11.   Like Reynolds, Bruton has insisted that there will be no change in the political status of the North without the consent of the Protestant majority.

12.   No one from the Protestant majority or the Roman Catholic minority disagrees.

13.   Part of their goal was to explain why so many people in Northern Ireland, which has a Protestant majority, fear proposals for union with the Irish Republic.

14.   Protestant leaders, like Trimble, want it to be weaker, controlled by a new regional legislative assembly that would have a Protestant majority.

15.   Protestants want weaker bodies that would be controlled by the Protestant majority that would elected to the new assembly.

16.   Protestants, led by David Trimble of the Ulster Unionist Party, argued that the province had to remain British as long as it had a Protestant majority.

17.   Religious leaders of the Protestant majority in the North were nowhere in sight for months.

18.   Shunned by the Protestant majority, Catholics around the turn of the century set up their own schools and other institutions.

19.   The assistance to business will be particularly attractive to the Protestant majority, where the greatest doubts persist about voting for the pact.

20.   The British and Irish governments moved Monday to deal with rising tension between the Protestant majority and the Roman Catholic minority in this British province.