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  • Father would put me in the chains himself, if it would keep his precious alliance.   (source)
  • Their alliance is now sealed.   (source)
  • The Chinese invasion prompted several countries, particularly those in Europe, to align themselves with one another and make alliances.   (source)
  • It was as though Athens and Sparta were trying to establish not just a truce but an alliance—although we were not as civilized as Athens and they were not as brave as Sparta.   (source)
  • Today, the airline is a member in good standing of the prestigious SkyTeam alliance.   (source)
  • And suddenly we'll look around and discover that all the old alliances are gone, dead and gone, except one, the Warsaw Pact.   (source)
    alliances = associations formed to support common interests
  • As we strive together to prefect a new agenda, I put high on the list of important points the maintenance of alliances and partnerships with other people and other nations.   (source)
  • To our sister republics south of our border, we offer a special pledge -- to convert our good words into good deeds in a new alliance for progress -- to assist free men and free governments in casting off the chains of poverty.   (source)
    alliance = association formed to support common interests
  • 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.   (source)
  • At this moment, for example, in 1984 (if it was 1984), Oceania was at war with Eurasia and in alliance with Eastasia.   (source)
    alliance = an association formed to support common interests
  • He made new alliances too.   (source)
    alliances = associations formed to support common interests
  • If a question in heraldry were started, Athos knew all the noble families of the kingdom, their genealogy, their alliances, their coats of arms, and the origin of them.   (source)
  • He said it was a very old name in that neighbourhood; that the ancestors of the house were wealthy; that all Morton had once belonged to them; that even now he considered the representative of that house might, if he liked, make an alliance with the best.   (source)
    alliance = association through marriage
  • He was rather too indulgent in humouring her caprices; not from affection, but from pride: he wished earnestly to see her bring honour to the family by an alliance with the Lintons, and as long as she let him alone she might trample on us like slaves, for aught he cared!   (source)
  • Your alliance will be a disgrace; your name will never even be mentioned by any of us.   (source)
  • The first prize was two months at the Alliance Francaise in Paris.†   (source)
  • An Alliance†   (source)
  • "So there's no point in discussing an alliance."†   (source)
  • Granted, Pondicherry was once a French colony, but no one would have me believe that some of the zoo animals had frequented the Alliance Francaise on rue Dumas.†   (source)
  • Presto, the black Ministerial Alliance, which had backed Ryan in the past, switched over to Lawton.†   (source)
  • We've made a temporary alliance with Athena.†   (source)
  • What if you're ordered to marry for the sake of alliance?†   (source)
  • The king and queen oppose each other, the court has their own alliances, and Cal—the perfect prince, the good soldier—is a torturous, terrible enemy.†   (source)
  • There can be alliances even in such places, even under such circumstances.†   (source)
  • They have very confused alliances.†   (source)
  • That's why the queen's witchy ambassador has been staying at the palace, so she can secure an alliance.†   (source)
  • We have an alliance to discuss.†   (source)
  • And on Tuesdays they go up to the Alliance Francaise and watch French-language movies.†   (source)
  • She named Reverend Dunbar Ogden, Jr., the white president of the interracial Ministerial Alliance, and two of our ministers, Reverend Z. Z. Driver of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and Reverend Harry Bass of the Methodist Episcopal Church.†   (source)
  • However, once they formed an alliance with the elves, a certain number of their eggs, usually no more than one or two, were given to the Riders each year.†   (source)
  • I gathered through overhearing my parents that Brother Fowles had entered into unconventional alliances with the local people, and too he was a Yankee.†   (source)
  • One hour after that nighttime bombardment began, the Northern Alliance opened fire with a battery of rockets from an air base twenty-five miles north of Kabul.†   (source)
  • All kinds of disparate drives and desires enact themselves during the dancing and dinner, and hostilities and alliances are revealed.†   (source)
  • There was wide public support for the alliance, pride bursting from the streets and windows of Syria and Egypt, the citizens of both countries seeing the union as a step along the way to a broader alignment between the Arab states.†   (source)
  • The competition for young customers has led the fast food chains to form marketing alliances not just with toy companies, but with sports leagues and Hollywood studios.†   (source)
  • Well, I hate to be the one to break up your little alliance, but I'm an educator, not a dating service, and in order to drop a class after five days you need my signature on your drop card.†   (source)
  • Steadily, then, over the two years or so following Herr Bremann's death, his lordship, together with Sir David Cardinal, who became his closest ally during that time, succeeded in gathering together a broad alliance of figures who shared the conviction that the situation in Germany should not be allowed to persist.†   (source)
  • March is the force behind "StigmaBusters," an ever-vigilant service of the National Alliance on Mental Illness.†   (source)
  • I'd like to discuss an alliance.†   (source)
  • "Every magical object has an alliance," Magnus explained.†   (source)
  • He was her only child, born of an occasional alliance with the well-known shipowner Don Pius V Loayza, one of the three brothers who had founded the River Company of the Caribbean and thereby given new impetus to steam navigation along the Magdalena River.†   (source)
  • There's good political reason—as long as my Duke remains unmarried some of the Great Houses can still hope for alliance.†   (source)
  • Chapter 17 —— ALLIANCE†   (source)
  • You may as well have made an alliance with a beggar!†   (source)
  • In speeches to old allies and donors, Farmer began to talk about "unusual alliances."†   (source)
  • It's a patchwork quilt of alliances, factions, and intrigues."†   (source)
  • Chances that the mutation would have died with him would have been excellent, as neither side of the Ralph White-Margaret Brigham alliance had cousins of a comparable age for the theoretical male ottspring to marry.†   (source)
  • At 8:23 there seemed every chance of a lasting alliance starting between Florin and Guilder.†   (source)
  • I was in an uneasy alliance with myself, trying to ignore what had started to feel irresistible.†   (source)
  • Popular kids didn't really have friends; they had alliances.†   (source)
  • I proposed reshaping the Congress Alliance so that the ANC would clearly be seen as the leader, especially on issues directly affecting Africans.†   (source)
  • He spent half of my leave introducing me to the heads of powerful houses and the other half railing at me for not solidifying as many alliances as possible.†   (source)
  • That always makes for harmony and stability in a matrimonial alliance.†   (source)
  • Home is a thousand alliances away.†   (source)
  • Eddis might still form an alliance with Sounis, although our queen would marry their king over my dead body.†   (source)
  • Jimmy's murder was isolated and pure, uncorrupted by other secret alliances and criminal acts, other suspicions.†   (source)
  • It's a prototype of the kind of alliance between first world and third that the abolitionist movement needs.†   (source)
  • They joined forces with the Northern Alliance in the north of Afghanistan and a ragtag militia in the south led by a Pashtun tribal leader named Hamid Karzai, who would become the first president of Afghanistan.†   (source)
  • And his method of operation, hiring people with limited experience based on gut feelings, forging working alliances with necessarily unsavory characters, and, above all, winging it, while unsettling and unconventional, has moved mountains.†   (source)
  • Three teams faced off against three others, and whichever alliance collected the most balls moved on to the next round.†   (source)
  • "It became a fight against the sea, the surf, the volcanic ash, and the Japanese, all joined in one colossal alliance against us," General Smith would lament in his memoirs.†   (source)
  • It is told that Elendil stood there watching for the coming of Gil-galad out of the West, in the days of the Last Alliance.†   (source)
  • As they walked, Bert explained that when the Silver Throne was created, alliances had yet to be formed.†   (source)
  • The mayor and Chief Mercer thought we might handle this investigation as an interdepartmental alliance.†   (source)
  • The predictable result of their alliance began to show within a few short months.†   (source)
  • 'I don't want it,' Corporal Whitcomb snapped again, and stalked out with an angry face, suppressing a smile of great jubilation at having forged a powerful new alliance with the C.I.D. man and at having succeeded again in convincing the chaplain that he was really displeased.†   (source)
  • It is not such a bad thing to make a good alliance for a daughter.†   (source)
  • I was suddenly aware—as Enoch turned to look at us with that certain suspicion he always reserved for me and now, increasingly, for both of us—that Emma and I were becoming a unit apart from the others, a private alliance with its own secrets and promises.†   (source)
  • This, like the alliance between me and my sister all those years ago, was never officially decided.†   (source)
  • I've had two free cappuccinos, a pain au chocolat, some apple cider (from Somerset Savings), a mini pack of Smarties, and my Pimm's from Sun Alliance.†   (source)
  • He passed through Grantsboro and Alliance, Bayboro and Stonewall, towns even smaller than Oriental, and it struck him that Pamlico County was like a place lost in time, nothing but a forgotten page in an abandoned book.†   (source)
  • In a secret message from the German foreign minister to his envoy in Mexico, Germany proposed an alliance with the understanding that Mexico would reconquer its lost territories.†   (source)
  • If I'd done what you did—gone straight to the Orsian priest, set up house in the lower city instead of using the police station and jail already built in the upper city, set about making alliances with lower city authorities and ignoring—"†   (source)
  • Let's make an alliance!†   (source)
  • On November 27, Congress named Adams a commissioner to work with Franklin and Arthur Lee in negotiating a French alliance.†   (source)
  • And though later he came pretending friendship, the alliance with man would ever be but fragile, for the fear he'd struck into their hearts was too deep to be dislodged.†   (source)
  • Gently but persistently selling her on this alliance, Mark said, "Doctor, we both have set ourselves against those forces of ignorance and fear and self-interest that want to keep the world in darkness."†   (source)
  • Myrcella never shed a tear, though it was she who was leaving hearth and home to seal an alliance with her maidenhood.†   (source)
  • Is it true that Dun and Jakarun have formed an alliance, or am I misinformed?†   (source)
  • His alliance with King runs counter to every careful strand of his political DNA.†   (source)
  • I might discuss it with a few friends in the National Alliance of Railroads.†   (source)
  • (So calmly) Well, you just rearrange your alliances, boy.†   (source)
  • Sleeping with the enemy being more profitable than competing, the two industries are now embedded in elaborate cross-ownership, production, and distribution alliances.†   (source)
  • You would have us make an alliance with death?†   (source)
  • We began to make the friendships and form the alliances that would ease the passage through that difficult year.†   (source)
  • I promised to join hands with my friends, with Kartik, and with the tribes of the realms to make an alliance, with a share of magic for all.†   (source)
  • But I will also tell you that my decision will be based first and foremost on propriety under the law, party alliances notwithstanding.†   (source)
  • To observe and report alliances, not to discuss abstract theories.†   (source)
  • It was an alliance with Austria-Hungary and Germany, in which we applied to the European balance of power what we had learned at home about a mobile, weak faction acting out of all proportion to its size.†   (source)
  • An enlisted man in a Texas cavalry regiment told his sister in 1861 that just as their forefathers had rebelled against King George to establish "Liberty and freedom in this western world …. so we dissolved our alliance with this oppressive foe and are now enlisted in 'The Holy Cause of Liberty and Independence' again."†   (source)
  • As a nation we formed alliances and made treaties.†   (source)
  • "Unless we form an alliance," Regis continued in the same urgent tones, "the horde will overrun our communities one by one, slaughtering any who dare to oppose them!"†   (source)
  • No. Would be nice if Great China busted alliance against us; might save us some damage.†   (source)
  • Sponsored by Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance Rev. A. L. Davis, Pres.†   (source)
  • After the confrontation, appalled at what had to be some military alliance between abolitionist Russia (Nicholas having freed the serfs in 1861) and a Union that paid lip service to abolition while it kept its own industrial laborers in a kind of wage-slavery, Peter Pinguid stayed in his cabin for weeks, brooding.†   (source)
  • It took Latin to thrust me into bona fide alliance with words in their true meaning.†   (source)
  • But through it all, the alliance held firm.†   (source)
  • If I knew they were there, I would have weapons against them, charms, prayers, some kind of alliance with forces equally strong but on my side.†   (source)
  • Let's form an alliance, combine our forces and lay siege to Amber.†   (source)
  • Leninism—the expediency of temporary alliances.†   (source)
  • His alliance with the Bolsheviks is accidental.†   (source)
  • The marriage for which he had once dreamed the world would mock him had so justified itself? in the eyes of the world? that no one now could imagine, for either of them, any other condition or alliance.†   (source)
  • I'm serious, Howard, keep an eye on the border this next spring; and bear in mind the Old Alliance.†   (source)
  • The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia.   (source)
    alliance = an association formed to support common interests
  • They did not hate dwarves especially, no more than they hated everybody and everything, and particularly the orderly and prosperous; in some parts wicked dwarves had even made alliances with them.   (source)
    alliances = association formed to support common interests
  • He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago.   (source)
    alliance = an association formed to support common interests
  • Actually, as Winston well knew, it was only four years since Oceania had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance with Eurasia.   (source)
  • We were in alliance with them.   (source)
    alliance = association formed to support common interests
  • Although no directive was ever issued, it was known that the chiefs of the Department intended that within one week no reference to the war with Eurasia, or the alliance with Eastasia, should remain in existence anywhere.   (source)
  • Really your organs of wonder and credulity are easily excited: you seem, by the importance of you all — my good mama included — ascribe to this matter, absolutely to believe we have a genuine witch in the house, who is in close alliance with the old gentleman.   (source)
  • Still further, in Buckingham's lodging, which he had been forced to abandon more precipitately than he expected, papers were found which confirmed this alliance and which, as the cardinal asserts in his memoirs, strongly compromised Mme. de Chevreuse and consequently the queen.   (source)
  • Leaving aside the degradation of an alliance with a nameless man, and the possible fact that his property, in default of heirs male, might pass into such a one's power, he had sense to comprehend Heathcliff's disposition: to know that, though his exterior was altered, his mind was unchangeable and unchanged.   (source)
    alliance = association through marriage
  • She often tried to provoke Darcy into disliking her guest, by talking of their supposed marriage, and planning his happiness in such an alliance.   (source)
  • Had Lydia's marriage been concluded on the most honourable terms, it was not to be supposed that Mr. Darcy would connect himself with a family where, to every other objection, would now be added an alliance and relationship of the nearest kind with a man whom he so justly scorned.   (source)
  • Au reste, we all know them: danger of bad example to innocence of childhood; distractions and consequent neglect of duty on the part of the attached — mutual alliance and reliance; confidence thence resulting — insolence accompanying — mutiny and general blow-up.   (source)
    alliance = association formed to support common interests
  • What I could have done to keep him by my side without breaking the alliance.†   (source)
  • The news of the Urgals' alliance with the Empire is extremely serious.†   (source)
  • It will be tricky, because once they realize we're severing the alliance, we'll be instant targets.†   (source)
  • "We will, of course, agree to an alliance …. under a certain set of conditions," Evelyn says.†   (source)
  • No way I could have figured she'd pull off an alliance with the orneriest kid north of the equator.†   (source)
  • He would never have made an alliance with this …. this Beast.†   (source)
  • This is something you can depend upon: there will always be alliances, of one kind or another.†   (source)
  • Athena had made an alliance with Apollo and Hermes, the two biggest cabins.†   (source)
  • Because it sounded like you were about to propose some sort of alliance between the five of us.†   (source)
  • In the weeks afterward, everyone congratulated Mother for having made such a favorable alliance.†   (source)
  • But if you kill her tonight, I swear I will never agree to any alliance with Luna.†   (source)
  • "But I couldn't argue with Beetee without indicating we were about to break away from the alliance.†   (source)
  • Well, in that case, welcome to the alliance.†   (source)
  • Maybe if you were simply more welcoming, you'd have had your alliance with Italy years ago."†   (source)
  • Anatole is very well respected; my alliance with him will save me, or it won't.†   (source)
  • The name of the industry group is the "Alliance for Workplace Safety?'†   (source)
  • "But Luna might still honor a marriage alliance through her," said Kai.†   (source)
  • "I'm in an alliance to take over the public school system and all its minions with your daughter."†   (source)
  • But even so, there is an argument to be made for forming an alliance against the Sixers.†   (source)
  • Swords and claws are useless, but words and alliances may have the same effect.†   (source)
  • The alliance is over and she broke it off, so no one could blame him for ignoring her.†   (source)
  • Why did you even bring me along, if you were just going to make an alliance anyway?†   (source)
  • It's not a natural alliance, is it," he says.†   (source)
  • Whom are we forming an alliance against?†   (source)
  • There's a much deeper alliance based on years of friendship and who knows what else.†   (source)
  • The only other person who had the power to stop the marriage alliance was the queen herself.†   (source)
  • True, they were an alliance six countries and a single planet strong.†   (source)
  • These four classic Careers will no doubt have a prior alliance.†   (source)
  • How can I feel happy when my alliance has been infiltrated?†   (source)
  • "Why can't we form a marriage alliance with her?" said Queen Camilla.†   (source)
  • "I've sort of had a double alliance going on for about two weeks now," he says sheepishly.†   (source)
  • There's really no future in this alliance.†   (source)
  • Her aim continues to be a marriage alliance with the Commonwealth's emperor."†   (source)
  • Seen if some wider alliance was possible.†   (source)
  • I speak, of course, of the alliance discussions my mistress has been engaged in with Emperor Rikan.†   (source)
  • ] do wish with all my heart that we can continue our discussions for an acceptable alliance.†   (source)
  • His idea of alliance with the Reds is to put them in uniform and stand them in rows like ninepins.†   (source)
  • I'm not part of a pack, but I do have an alliance.†   (source)
  • Why did I choose to pray to the dark side, make alliances with powers beyond my understanding?†   (source)
  • Talk to the representatives, strengthen our alliances.†   (source)
  • A strong alliance between Sounis and Attolia is not to their advantage.†   (source)
  • Much like our own parabatai ceremony, but its alliance is demonic.†   (source)
  • Before the alliance, it would have meant an immediate attack.†   (source)
  • The Elves were next, in an alliance formed by marriage—and then, much later, the Trolls.†   (source)
  • The alliance between us, that was sincere.†   (source)
  • A treaty creates a league or alliance of nations.†   (source)
  • And the fact that we have been able to form an alliance and work with others.†   (source)
  • It is best to make the alliance, and quickly.†   (source)
  • It was inevitable that they should make alliance.†   (source)
  • I'll make a good marriage alliance with her once we've won the war, if I can find a man to take her.†   (source)
  • It's not the Mortal Sword, but its alliance is sufficiently demonic for this purpose.†   (source)
  • Even with Elias Bram's return, an alliance with Rowan is the shortest path to their own destruction.†   (source)
  • Their alliance with the Tyrells is fraying, to judge from what I read here.†   (source)
  • Wesley needs to drive a wedge into that Alliance stand.†   (source)
  • And so the wait went on, father and son remaining on board the Alliance.†   (source)
  • The sun and the city have struck up an irreversible alliance.†   (source)
  • Drizzt had conceded the point that the greatest obstacle in forming the alliance would be Targos.†   (source)
  • You know how everything has an alliance?†   (source)
  • How secure the alliances between any of the clans were, however, was a question of some uncertainty.†   (source)
  • "You promised—you promised—you'd never force me into marrying someone for an alliance.†   (source)
  • Fruitless did I call the victory of the Last Alliance?†   (source)
  • Will you defend that alliance, too, Aro?†   (source)
  • I might never see Jade again, but this alliance would further protect our ties to the salt business.†   (source)
  • What would the Seastone Chair want of us as the price of an alliance?†   (source)
  • They were against anything that unraveled the alliance.†   (source)
  • The giants get a marriage alliance and the hammer.†   (source)
  • The great western alliance will be preserved …. for a time, at least.†   (source)
  • I cannot see John sharing stories of our "alliance," our triad, but I put little past the man.†   (source)
  • Therefore, an alliance between the confederacies would not be easy to form.†   (source)
  • That is where we shall join hands in alliance, is it not?†   (source)
  • A marriage alliance, to bring some great House to our banners.†   (source)
  • She had forgotten her brother and his National Alliance.†   (source)
  • Balon Greyjoy offered my lord father an alliance.†   (source)
  • "Alliance," she said, drawing the stele back.†   (source)
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