Word Finder - alliances

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The state of being allied.

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matrimonial alliances; an alliance between church and state, or between two countries

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The act of allying or uniting.

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A union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league.

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Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity.

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(with the definite article) The persons or parties allied.

The idea of possibly running into people whose alliances she couldn't predict made her queasy.

He made alliances with the princes of North and South Wales.

It was chiefly in the way of matrimonial alliances that it was brought into contact with other states.

Kings forbade their noblemen from forming alliances with other potentates.

In 1747, alliances were also concluded with Denmark and the Porte.

He made alliances with everyone, promising them safety, and then voted them out one by one.

The marriage was one of a set of family alliances with Austria and Portugal designed to strengthen Spain against France.

Colbertvery envious of Hollands wealthprepared the finances, le Tellier the army and de Lionne the alliances.

He therefore came to the conclusion that if Prussia was to regain the position she had lost she must be prepared for the opposition of Austria, and must strengthen herself by alliances with other powers.

Trade and commerce were at a standstill, agriculture was neglected, the privileges and estates of the margrave passed into private hands, the nobles were virtually independent, and the towns sought to defend themselves by means of alliances.

Under the Wittelsbach rule, the estates of the various provinces of Brandenburg had obtained the right to coin money, to build fortresses, to execute justice, and to form alliances with foreign states.

He diminished the burden of taxation, suppressed the violence of the nobles, improved navigation on the Elbe and Oder, and encouraged commerce by alliances with the Hanse towns, and in other ways.

He deposed the governing oligarchy, changed the constitution of the town, forbade all alliances and laid the foundations of a castle.

He fought hard to build alliances the Council destroyed, and bartered, cheated, and stole for the weaponry needed to defeat the invaders, the Yirkin, a sophisticated race whose goal was to claim as many planets as they could in their empire-building.

Now that he was no longer in the slavery of the Council, he would take the last few steps needed to rebuild his alliances and bring his might to full force.

While she calls for activity and alliances to fight the TNCs, she is hopelessly vague about what kind of action is needed.

It contracts no entangling alliances with any sect of theorists, dreamers or philosophers.

The important issue in the months ahead is to build broad alliances around core Labor principles.

The old opposing power blocs have gone, but have been replaced by a dangerous and unpredictable tapestry of shifting alliances.

Labor leaders here are said to be increasingly disenchanted with their Lib Dem coalition partners and considering alternative alliances after May 2007.

Relations between these various power bases aren't always cordial - links are fluid and alliances temporary.

The shaman's domain includes dalliances, alliances, exchanges and battles with the spirits of the air, ocean, soil and cosmos.

All power lies with States and alliances between States, while ' humanity ' is left utterly impotent.

Other alliances, with organic food growers and protectionist food organizations in France and England, created a Juggernaut against GM food.

Alliances tend, in reality, to be a series of bilateral relationships between airlines rather than truly multilateral.

The island of Melos found itself an unwilling pawn in a vicious struggle between the Athenian and Spartan alliances.

The fanaticism of the Muwahhadis did not prevent them from encouraging the establishment of Christians even in Fez, and after the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa they occasionally entered into alliances with the kings of Castile.

A conflict between Corcyra and Corinth, the second and third naval powers of Greece, led to the simultaneous appearance in Athens of an embassy from either combatant (433) Pericles had, as it seems, resumed of late a plan of Western expansion by forming alliances with Rhegium and Leontini, and the favourable position of Corcyra on the traderoute to Sicily and Italy, as well as its powerful fleet, no doubt helped to induce him to secure an alliance with that island, and so to commit an unfriendly act towards a leading representative of the Peloponnesian League.

The imperial family were renowned for their beauty, and the princesses of this race were sought as brides by Byzantine emperors of the dynasty of the Palaeologi, by Western nobles, and by Mahommedan princes; and the connexions thus formed originated a variety of diplomatic relations and friendly or offensive alliances.

He greeted the treaty of San Stefano (3rd March 1878) with undisguised relief, and by the mouth of the king, congratulated Italy (7th March 1878) on having maintained with the powers friendly and cordial relations free from suspicious precautions, and upon having secured for herself that most precious of alliances, the alliance of the future a phrase of which the empty rhetoric was to be bitterly demonstrated by the Berlin Congress and the French occupation of Tunisia.

Hitherto she had confined her efforts to territorial expansion in eastern Europe and in Asia, and she had sought foreign alliances merely as temporary expedients to facilitate the attainment of that object.

The ministry of the Visconde de Olinda in 1849 entered into alliances with the governors of Montevideo, Paraguay and the states of Entre Rios and Corrientes, for the purpose of maintaining the integrity of the republics of Uruguay and Paraguay, which Rosas intended to reunite to Buenos Aires, and the troops of Rosas which besieged Montevideo were forced to capitulate.

Political, commercial and matrimonial alliances inevitably left their mark upon national religion, and the introduction of foreign cults which ensued is characteristically viewed as an apostasy from Yahweh of which he was guilty in his old age.

Quarrels soon arose, partly out of the circumstance that the Romans had sought to make alliances with certain Danubian tribes which Ruas chose to regard as properly subject to himself, partly also because some of the undoubted subjects of the Hun had found refuge on Roman territory; and Theodosius, in reply to an indignant and insulting message which he had received about this cause of dispute, was preparing to send off a special embassy when tidings arrived that Ruas was dead and that he had been succeeded in his kingdom by Attila and Bleda, the two sons of his brother Mundzuk (433).

Yet such alliances may at times break down and have then to be reconstructed on a new basis.

Juvenile rooks form long-term alliances, which are based on high levels of affiliative behavior (preening, food sharing) between partners.

To bring the theory to life, there are several case studies showing how strategic alliances work in practice.

His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a tumble dryer.

The company has set up a great many alliances to make this possible.

Despite the instability, members cling to these alliances because they can't imagine their lives without them.

It's a growing organization building strong alliances.

Take on the role of a nameless character and forge alliances with whomever you like -- the downtrodden humans, the conquering Orcs, or even the traitorous merchants.

Genograms help uncover intergenerational patterns of behavior, marriage choices, family alliances and conflicts, the existence of family secrets, and other information that sheds light on the family's present situation.

Some states have large scale alliances for pharmaceuticals and may have an agreement with Barr Laboratories through this alliance.

Forming temporary alliances for every hand, each of the four players is ultimately playing for himself.

In fact, the earliest rings may have been exchanged by men forming alliances with one another.

Alliances with other organization adds power to SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives) in turn passed on to its members.

Whether the show pits each contestant against one another, or couples come to the ranch as their own two-person team, at some point during game play, it's almost inevitable that friendships and alliances form.

Networking can also help by forming alliances between companies that work within the same regions or areas.

These alliances can help the dissemination of information and form strong relationships that can further the insurance industry.