Word Finder - coalitions

definition

A temporary group or union of organizations, usually formed for a particular advantage.

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The Liberal Democrats and Conservative parties formed a coalition government in 2010.

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The collective noun for a group of cheetahs.

The three coalitions against France had not produced a single warrior worthy of his steel.

The coalitions, once so brittle as to break at the first strain, had now been hammered into solidity by his blows.

Although they made some concessions, .the Beaujeus succeeded in maintaining the results of the previous reign, and in triumphing over the feudal intrigues and coalitions, as was seen from the meeting of the estates general in 1484, and the results of the "Mad War" (1485) and the war with Brittany (1488); and in spite of the efforts of Maximilian of Austria they concluded the marriage of Charles VIII.

Geoffrey the Handsome, with his indefatigable energy, was eminently fitted to suppress the coalitions of his vassals, the most formidable of which was formed in 1129.

Trained in a school where the principles of responsible government were still in an embryonic state, where the adroit management of coalitions and cabals was essential to the life of a political party, and where plots and counterplots were looked upon as a regular part of the political game, he acquired a dexterity and skill in managing men that finally gave him an almost autocratic power among his political followers.

It was a period of constant conflict conducted by shifting coalitions of the nobles, who under pretence of freeing the king from the undue influence of his favourite were intent on making a puppet of him for their own ends.

The Ultramontane party in Austria, France and Bavaria had, after 1866, been hostile to Prussia; there was some ground to fear that it might still succeed in bringing about a Catholic coalition against the empire, and Bismarck lived in constant dread of European coalitions.

It was possible under these to procure decisions in courts of justice dissolving the General Union of Workers and the coalitions and unions of working men.

Louis was the soul of all hostile coalitions, especially urging on the Swiss and Sigismund of Austria, who ruled Tirol and Alsace.

In the first years of the reign of Charles VIII., Louis made a determined stand against the government of the Beaujeus, stirred up coalitions of the feudal nobles against them, and was finally defeated and taken prisoner at St Aubin du Cormier in 1488.

It was on this occasion that he exclaimed, "England does not love coalitions."

He gave the duke coalitions.

This was the end of the great feudal coalitions, for royal vengeance soon settled the account of the lesser vassals; the duke of Alencon was condemned to prison for life; the count of Armagnac was killed; and the Germans were soon to disembarrass Louis of Charles the Bold.

The support of Sagasta did not last long, and he managed with skill to elbow the Dynastic Left out of office, and to convince all dissentients and free lances that there was neither room nor prospect for third parties in the state between the two great coalitions of Liberals and Conservatives under Sagasta and Canovas.

Unlike the picture painted by PR critics, coalitions are seldom directed by the whims of tiny parties blackmailing large parties.

Work in progress includes a study of the possibility of international anti-terrorist coalitions.

You can have ' ad-hoc coalitions for action that stir massive controversy about legitimacy ' .

They plant, maintain, and orchestrate coalitions of voters to exert pressure on elected officials.