Alliances
[ə'laɪəns]
Examples
- Israel wars with Judah and the neighbouring states; forms alliances first with one and then with the other. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Here we cannot trace out the tangle of alliances and betrayals that ended in the ascendancy of this Octavian, the adopted heir of Julius C?sar. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They would form alliances, but never coalesce with other city states. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Again the little country in between made mistakes in its alliances. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Where promises are not observed, there can be no leagues nor alliances. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- It is impossible here to trace the events of the ninth and tenth centuries in any detail, the alliances, the treacheries, the claims and acquisitions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I am aware of the contract-grafts, the franchise-steals, the dirty streets, the bribing and the blackmail, the vice-and-crime partnerships, the Big Business alliances of Tammany Hall. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- They invaded the Egyptian delta and the African coast to the west, they formed alliances with the Hittites and other Aryan or Aryanized races. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- At the utmost their minds reached out to alliances and leagues. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Third, there can be no leagues or alliances or special covenants and understandings within the general and common family of the League of Nations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We still read Washington's immortal warning against entangling alliances with full comprehension and an answering purpose. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The sentence in which that repudiation was expressed was Washington's injunction to avoid entangling alliances. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Murders, revolts, chastisements, disasters, cunning alliances, and base betrayals, and no Herodotus to record them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Into the question how far conduct, especially in the matter of alliances, constitutes a forfeiture of family claims, I do not now enter. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In the various agitations of vigilance committees and alliances for the suppression of the traffic they profess to see continued a work which the abolitionists began. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- They not only recalled old hatreds and battles, they recalled old alliances and a common inheritance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They found an inconvenient resistance to the taxation that was necessary if their diplomatic aggressions and alliances were to continue. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In going to war against the one and in making alliances with the other. Plato. The Republic.
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