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a group of countries, people, or organizations working for common goals- The Islamic governments formed an alliance to defeat Israel.
alliance = a group of countries, people, or organizations working for common goals
- the shifting alliances within a large family
- "The others kept Peeta alive because if he died, we knew there'd be no keeping you in an alliance," says Haymitch.Suzanne Collins -- Catching Fire
- And they entered into friendship and alliance with countries beyond the sea and paid them visits of state and received visits of state from them.C.S. Lewis -- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- With communism wicking across the Far East, America's leaders began to see a future alliance with Japan as critical to national security.Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
- Eddis might still form an alliance with Sounis, although our queen would marry their king over my dead body.Megan Whalen Turner -- The Thief
- Why did I choose to pray to the dark side, make alliances with powers beyond my understanding?Stephen King -- Rose Red
- No. Would be nice if Great China busted alliance against us; might save us some damage.Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
- Leninism—the expediency of temporary alliances.John Le Carre -- The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
- Let them form blocs and alliances and mutual assistance pacts and guarantees of neutrality.Dalton Trumbo -- Johnny Got His Gun
- I will do my best to destroy his boat with storms, but he is making alliances with my enemies, the older spirits of the ocean.Rick Riordan -- The Titan's Curse
- He led them at high noon along crowded Simla Mall to the Alliance Bank of Simla, where they wished to establish their identity.Rudyard Kipling -- Kim
- Was he the only representative of France in this mysterious alliance, obviously made up of individuals from different nationalities?Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
- You would have us make an alliance with death?Ted Dekker -- Red: The Heroic Rescue
- They walked along hilariously, greeting a few early pedestrians with ironical obsequiousness, jeering pleasantly at the world in brotherly alliance.Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
- In Wrentham we caught echoes of what was happening in the world—war, alliance, social conflict.Helen Keller -- Story of My Life
- His idea of alliance with the Reds is to put them in uniform and stand them in rows like ninepins.Orson Scott Card -- Red Prophet
- Far from breaking up the marriage, that alliance had righted it.Virginia Woolf -- To the Lighthouse
- Shall we build a friendship, establish an alliance for someone, instead of against someone as is usual?Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
- Infer fair England's peace by this alliance.William Shakespeare -- The Life and Death of King Richard III
alliance = a group of people working for common goals
alliance = a group working together for common goals