All 10 Uses
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- 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.†
Chpt Intr. *alliances = associations formed to support common interests
- In 1968, the Chinese, anxious to create an easy route to a new market for their manufactured goods, to limit Soviet influence in Central Asia, and to cement a strategic alliance against India, offered to supervise and fund the completion of the thirteen-hundred-kilometer route from Kashgar, in southwestern China, to Islamabad.†
Chpt 7alliance = association formed to support common interests
- He soon saw the region for what it was—bands of tribal powers, shunted into states created arbitrarily by Europeans, states that took little account of each tribe's primal alliance to its own people.†
Chpt 13
- Massoud, the charismatic leader of the Northern Alliance, the ragtag group of former mujahadeen whose military skill had kept the Taliban from taking northernmost Afghanistan, had been killed on September 9 by two Al Qaeda—trained Algerians claiming to be Belgian documentary filmmakers of Moroccan descent.†
Chpt 19
- The London Embassy, run by Wali Massoud, the brother of slain Northern Alliance leader Shah Ahmed Massoud, was dedicated to overthrowing the Taliban.†
Chpt 20
- The official thumbed past dozens of the imposing black-and-white visas from the Islamic Republic of Pakistan that were glued onto every other page, and scrawled Afghan visas issued by the Northern Alliance, the questions in his mind mounting, and left Mortenson to speak to his superior.†
Chpt 20
- From Gannon, he learned how the skittish Taliban forces had fled the city as Northern Alliance tanks swept south, supported by the American fighter planes that concentrated their fire on the city's "Street of Guests," Kabul's poshest neighborhood, where Arab fighters allied with the Taliban lived.†
Chpt 21
- But Mortenson judged that Kabul, in the hands of the Northern Alliance and their American allies, was at long last secure enough for him to visit.†
Chpt 21
- Satisfied, he stamped it lazily and waved Mortenson out past a peeling likeness of slain Northern Alliance leader Shah Ahmed Massoud that his fighters had plastered on the wall when they'd taken the airport.†
Chpt 21
- Hash had been wounded when a Northern Alliance rocket-propelled grenade exploded against a wall where he'd taken cover.†
Chpt 21
Definitions:
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(1)
(alliance) an association formed to support common interests
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)