All 4 Uses
alliance
in
Tear Down This Wall Speech
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- Beginning 10 years ago, the Soviets challenged the Western alliance with a grave new threat, hundreds of new and more deadly SS-20 nuclear missiles, capable of striking every capital in Europe.†
alliance = association formed to support common interests
- The Western alliance responded by committing itself to a counter-deployment unless the Soviets agreed to negotiate a better solution; namely, the elimination of such weapons on both sides.†
- As the alliance, in turn, prepared to go forward with its counter-deployment, there were difficult days—days of protests like those during my 1982 visit to this city—and the Soviets later walked away from the table.†
- But through it all, the alliance held firm.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(alliance) an association formed to support common interests
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)