Sentences with phrase «perhaps apposite»

The recent announcement by Ian Paisley that he was resigning his dual leadership roles, as First Minister of the Northern Ireland Executive and as Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader, almost a year after the restoration of a devolved power - sharing Assembly based in Stormont, Belfast, is perhaps an apposite time to assess the successes of the latest (hopefully permanent) attempt at devolving law - making powers to a region in the UK, and also to evaluate the robustness of institutionalised power - sharing as it meets the myriad challenges confronting the fledgling Assembly.