Example sentences of "a alliance with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite abandoning a planned £34m ( $66m ) European airline venture with Belgium 's carrier , Sabena , and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines , British Airways still wants an alliance with the troubled Sabena , but faces competition from other airlines pursuing the same goal . |
| 2 | For one thing , the Labour Party leaders would not contemplate an alliance with the Communist Party , which they rightly feared was merely aiming to use Labour to gain political support and which was involved in almost needless violence against the supremely unimportant British fascists . |
| 3 | Back in the British parliament , the Liberal Party , by an alliance with the new Labour group , won control of the House of Commons and Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman became Prime Minister . |
| 4 | This lass had been the first cause of Eachuinn Odhar thinking of an alliance with the Campbells ? |
| 5 | Rodrigo marched into Valencia in triumph , only to learn that his old adversary Berenguer of Barcelona — who had never forgiven the Cid for capturing him in an earlier campaign — had formed an alliance with the Moorish lord of Lerida and El Cid 's own sometime ally Mostain of Saragossa . |
| 6 | First , to seek an alliance with the Scots and so divert our Liege Lord 's justifiable pursuit of his claims over English lands in France . |
| 7 | Perhaps an alliance with the Bruces or the Comyns ? |
| 8 | Two crucial stages in this were the formation of an alliance with the Emperor Alexius I Comnenus of Byzantium against the Norman empire threatening to spread into Venice 's Adriatic and Byzantine Greece in the 1080s ; and the role Venice came increasingly to play in the crusading adventures of the twelfth century . |
| 9 | The southern German Christian Democrats are talking of an alliance with the Greens — a marriage of convenience certainly , but a progressive , positive one , that corresponds to what Europe 's richest voters want . |
| 10 | Alarmed by Hitler 's rise to power , Stalin was actively pursuing an alliance with the Western democracies . |
| 11 | In the late 1930s , the demand that Britain make an alliance with the Soviet Union became the key alternative to Chamberlain 's foreign policy — the only combination that had the power to resist Hitler and thus prevent war . |
| 12 | This assumption — that nothing would persuade the Chamberlain Government to make an alliance with the Soviet Union — was axiomatic on the left . |
| 13 | Lowe wrote claiming that Sutton was trying to undermine him and forge an alliance with the Founders . |
| 14 | A committee of clerics and nobles meeting at Scone in 1295 persuaded the so-called King John that enough was enough , and that instead of pandering to the King of England he should seek an alliance with the King of France . |
| 15 | In 1974 it formed an alliance with the left-wing rural workers ' union , the UTC . |
| 16 | Poor local election results led FDP leaders to believe that an alliance with the CDU was now more desirable and on 17 September they left the coalition . |
| 17 | They made maximum use of the forum provided by the zemstvos and drew them towards an alliance with the liberal and constitutional movement emerging in the cities . |
| 18 | Moreover , in their anxiety to forge an alliance with the bourgeoisie and their blindness to the revolutionary potential of the peasantry , they were willing for the proletariat to accept a position of subordination to liberal bourgeois leadership . |
| 19 | Religious propaganda could also be exploited : an inscription ( IGi 3 9 ) shows that Athens , probably in the 450s , made an alliance with the Amphictyonic League , in other words , she was continuing Themistokles ' policy of trying to win influence at Delphi . |
| 20 | For instance when in c.438 ( p. 89 ) Phormio made an alliance with the Akarnanians in north-west Greece ( Thuc. ii.68 ) it is inconceivable that he awaited approval from Athens . |
| 21 | Then in 1983 the Liberals formed an alliance with the new Social Democratic Party ( SDP ) and withdrew Liberal candidates from half the parliamentary constituencies to give the SDP a clear run . |
| 22 | Without too much difficulty the SDP formed an Alliance with the Liberals to fight national and local elections . |
| 23 | Rhun is thought to have been a son of Urien of Rheged ( see above , p. 78 ) , and Oswiu 's marriage to Riemmelth may have cemented an alliance with the north British principality of Rheged as another important strand in the web of alliances which conspired to overthrow Eadwine . |
| 24 | An alliance with the Welsh leaders was also concluded . |
| 25 | Perhaps an alliance with the East Angles was the cornerstone of Aethelbald 's ascendancy . |
| 26 | In spite of the strong antagonisms he had aroused , he had been a key figure in the religious and political reorientation of Evangelicalism and in its forging of an alliance with the resurgent Conservative party around the defence of the Protestant Established Church . |
| 27 | ( The collusion of the two communist powers was formalised by Moscow 's conclusion of an alliance with the newly victorious Chinese communists in late 1949 . ) |
| 28 | To many among the intelligentsia , an alliance with the Soviet Union offered the only practical defence for the Western democracies against the rising tide of fascism . |
| 29 | The secretary-general of the PS , Jorge Sampaio , became mayor of Lisbon ( the capital ) , where the PS entered into an alliance with the Communists and the Greens ; the PS won absolute control in Oporto . |
| 30 | In July 1989 the Awami National Party ( ANP ) , which had left the administration on April 27 ( see p. 37150 ) , formally joined in an alliance with the IJI . |