Both Uses of
alliance
in
Ender's Game
- There were many who liked to remember that during the Second Invasion, even though an American Jew, as President, was Hegemon of the alliance, an Israeli Jew was Strategos in overall command of I.F. defense, and a Russian Jew was Polemarch of the fleet, it was Mazer Rackham, a little-known, twice-courtmartialled, half-Maori New Zealander whose Strike Force broke up and finally destroyed the bugger fleet in the action around Saturn.
Chpt 8alliance = association formed to support common interests
- And suddenly we'll look around and discover that all the old alliances are gone, dead and gone, except one, the Warsaw Pact.
Chpt 9 *alliances = associations formed to support common interests
Definition:
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(alliance) an association formed to support common interests