Sentences with alliance
al·li·ance
A a - The two parties were still too much apart to form an alliance.
- What will be the effect of the alliance between IBM and Apple? [+ with/between]
- Increasingly, the alliance with the United States is not in Australia's strategic best interests.
- Tactical alliance for farm reforms.
- Matrimonial alliances; an alliance between church and state, or between two countries
- A commentator says an alliance between Air New Zealand and Virgin Blue in the trans-Tasman market has symmetry and will concern Qantas and Jetstar.
- Alliance refers to any association entered into for mutual benefit; , league1, often interchangeable with , alliance, stresses formality of organization and definiteness of purpose; , coalition implies a temporary alliance of opposing parties, etc., as in times of emergency; , confederacy, confederation in political usage refer to a combination of independent states for the joint exercise of certain governmental functions, as defense or customs; , union implies a close, permanent alliance and suggests complete unity of purpose and interest