alliance

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.

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.