alliance

[əˈlaɪəns]

Definition:
1. An agreement between countries, political parties, etc.
2. The state of being allied or confederated.
3. A connection based on kinship or marriage or common interest.
4. An organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty.
5. A formal agreement establishing an association or alliance between nations or other groups to achieve a particular aim.
6. The act of forming an alliance or confederation.

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Use 'alliance' in a sentence:

1. Art shouldn't enter an unholy alliance with business.
2. Chrysler is continuing discussions to form an alliance with Fiat, another key demand of the US government.
3. The two parties were still too much apart to form an alliance.
4. This is an alliance for offensive and defence.
5. The two families formed a marriage alliance.
6. The two companies have formed an alliance to market the product.
7. It is part of a test conducted by the US government during its alliance with psychotomimetic drugs in the late 1950s.
8. The Alliance resources and news.
9. Yet now he was here, in extremis, to seek an alliance.
10. Dwight Eisenhower had led a fractious alliance—you didn't tell Winston Churchill what to do—in a massive, chaotic war.
11. Bound in an alliance of mutual benefit, clownfish spend their entire lives with their host anemones, rarely straying more than a few yards from them.
12. They made an alliance against the common enemy.
13. There are signs that the alliance is now fraying at the edges.
14. Beyond that, china now competes with the US and Europe for economic alliances in africa.
15. The alliance has suited both sides.
16. Scott is delighted to get food advice from a physician who is program director of the nearby Mary and Dick Allen Diabetes Center, part of the St. Joseph Hoag Health alliance.
17. After that the two alliances might be subsumed into a new European security system.
18. They joined with a ramshackle alliance of other rebels.
19. So far the French alliance had profited the rebels little.
20. In February the FTC and Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) agreed that the industry would get cracking on responding to DNT requests.
21. The new alliance was very much in evidence.
22. Scott is delighted to get food advice from a physician who is program director of the nearby Mary and Dick Allen Diabetes Center, part of the St.Joseph Hoag Health alliance.
23. Family Alliance is looking for people who can deliver hot Chinese meals one to two times a week for people with disabilities in north suburban Fairfield County.
24. China will not enter into alliance with any big power.
25. The Agile Alliance is defined as follows.
26. The After School Alliance finds that more than 14 million kids aged 5 to 17 are responsible for taking care of themselves after school.
27. The Social Democrats are now in alliance with the Greens.
28. In the formative years their alliance carried all before it.
29. On the face of it, their marriage seems an improbable alliance.
30. Renewing the security alliance is a must.
31. Without them, we would be a mere alliance of many separate parts.
32. The uneasy alliance between these two men offered a glimmer of hope.
33. In 1882 Germany, Austria, and Italy formed the Triple Alliance.
34. The Alliance in its first show of strength drew a hundred thousand-strong crowd to a rally.
35. The alliance, in its first show of strength, drew a hundred thousand-strong crowd to a rally.
36. I had coached the Alliance team for some time.
37. PLATFORM is an alliance of more than 80 rail-user groups.
38. The only real benefit infrequent flyers can draw from an alliance is an inexpensive round-the-world fare.
39. What will be the effect of the alliance between IBM and Apple?
40. The alliance stands ready to do what is necessary.
41. The Alliance for Progress reached its apogee during the first half of the decade.
42. But in order to maintain a credible threat of intervention, we have to maintain a credible alliance.
43. The President's visit was intended to cement the alliance between the two countries.
44. Japan was in alliance with Germany and Italy during the Second World War.
45. They conclude that the postwar demise of this vital alliance constituted a lost opportunity for the civil rights movement that followed the war.
46. Each member of the alliance agrees to take such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force.
47. Strategic alliances are being forged with major European companies.