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The Coalition , also but rarely known as Conservative Coalition, was a Chilean coalition formed in 1891 after the 1891 Chilean Civil War and it was the main opposer of the Liberal Alliance . The Coalition was formed by the Conservative Party , democrats, ...
WordNet
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n. an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty [syn: alliance , alignment , alinement ] [ant: nonalignment ] the state of being combined into one body [syn: fusion ] the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a broad alliance/coalition ▪ The government was a broad alliance of eight political parties. a coalition government (= government made up of members of more than one political party ) ▪ The country has had a succession ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, "the growing together of parts," from French coalition (1540s), from Late Latin coalitus "fellowship," originally past participle of Latin coalescere (see coalesce ). First used in a political sense 1715.
Usage examples of coalition.
That said, Adams got to the essential point, lest Pickering have any misconceptions: I will say to you, however, that I consider this letter as the most authentic intelligence yet received in America of the successes of the coalition.
Assad took power, the Muslim Brotherhood, a loosely knit underground coalition of Sunni Muslim fundamentalist guerrilla groups, which had existed on and off in Syria since the late 1930s, began working to topple the predominantly Alawite Assad regime through a ruthless campaign of assassinations and bombings.
Elders, if men had Elders, and if the Colonial Coalition had any sense at all, they would be as wily and problematic as anyone in the New Amazonian Parliament.
The second, concealed in the first and still largely innocuous to Coalition eyes, concerned itself with a perceived obstructionist element in New Amazonian government.
In Buffalo, an antislavery coalition forms the Free-Soil party and nominates former President Martin Van Buren.
Ripon, Wisconsin, in February 1854, a diverse coalition of antislavery politicians, former members of the Whig, Free-Soil, and Know-Nothing parties along with disaffected northern Democrats, organized a new party opposed to the further extension of slavery.
It would be the French campaign of 1940 all over again: then German tanks had plunged through the Ardennes and all the way to the English Channel, splintering the British-French coalition, demoralizing the French Army and driving the British off the Continent.
Democrats used force and fraud to wrest control from biracial Republican coalitions.
They employed emissaries to allay the ferment among the Cameronians, and disunite them from the cavaliers, by canting, praying, and demonstrating the absurdity, sinfulness, and danger of such a coalition.
Maybe until we put together some kind of coalition like Ecu would have overseen?
People are putting their trust in the Christian Coalition and the Eurocommunist Alliance always a sign that the times are bad while perfectly sound trading enterprises have gone into free fall, as if a major bribery scandal has broken out.
A proclamation of the Coalition Council of the Federation government, which I have the honor to serve, forbids it.
Since it was possible that the Bush administration might attack with little coalition support, Franks used the unilateral numbers in his presentations to Rumsfeld.
By mid-February, the Iraqis were virtually incapable of getting supplies to their frontline units: coalition fighter-bombers prevented their trucks from using the roads to the front, losses to air strikes had significantly reduced the size of the Iraqi truck fleet, and few Iraqi drivers were willing to make the trip.
He also had the benefit of a statewide PR, lobbying, and grassroots campaign organized by Ralph Reed, the formidable former executive director of the Christian Coalition.