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1856 Evangelical Christendom June 186 A convention not confined to Alliance members, but open to whomsoever of the faithful in Christ would come.

1891 Deseret Weekly (Salt Lake City, Utah Territory) 28 Nov. 724/2 No matter how the Alliance leaders may view this matter, they can not but see that their party..has lost its hold.

1898 Fortn. Rev. 1 Sept. 474 Prince Bismarck was afraid of the alliance-making possibilities of a monarchical restoration in France.

1905 Electr. World & Engineer 1 Apr. 620/1 The text of the alliance agreement between Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was made public.

1939 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 26 May 3/5 Japan would..be a much better alliance partner if she had her affairs in the east straightened out.

1943 Montana Standard 15 Oct. 10/4 The puppet Philippine Republic government had signed an alliance pact providing that the occupied islands..will support Japan in the present war.

1961 Internat. Organization 15 233/2 The process of alliance-building and of competitive armament began.

1970 D. G. Mandelbaum Society in India I. xiv. 249 Alliance leaders..would prefer that..[a man] not have close relations with anyone outside the alliance.

1996 Independent (Nexis) 6 Feb. 11 He was the ninth alliance soldier to die since Nato troops took over from the United Nations in the Balkans in December.

2004 B. Kleymann & H. Seristö Managing Strategic Airline Alliances iii. 53 It is likely that a significant part of the internal wrestling between alliance partners will..occur over the allocation of yield share on jointly operated routes.