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alliance

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The Alliance is a fictional corporate supergovernment in the Firefly franchise , a powerful authoritarian government and law-enforcement organization that controls the majority of territory within the known universe. Originally composed solely of a number ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "bond of marriage" (between ruling houses or noble families), from Old French aliance (12c., Modern French alliance ) "alliance, bond; marriage, union," from aliier (Modern French allier ) "combine, unite" (see ally (v.)). As a bond or treaty between ...

Usage examples of alliance.

Alliance that you have discovered an un-researched pathological allele and want to find how it causes cell failure.

The most active and successful of the Plebeians accumulated wealth, aspired to honors, deserved triumphs, contracted alliances, and, after some generations, assumed the pride of ancient nobility.

He represented to Theodoric, that an ambitious conqueror, who aspired to the dominion of the earth, could be resisted only by the firm and unanimous alliance of the powers whom he labored to oppress.

In vain she entreated the baronet to break the disgraceful, and, as she said, illegal alliance his son had contracted.

They had separated on the Lido, and as none knew of their interview but him, and none would probably suspect their recent alliance, the Bravo entered on his new duty with some chances of success, that might otherwise have been lost.

Nothing could be a greater burlesque upon the negotiation than this treaty of alliance concluded with the petty duke of Wolfenbuttle, who very gravely guarantees to his Britannic majesty the possession of his three kingdoms, and obliges himself to supply his majesty with five thousand men, in consideration of an annual subsidy of five-andtwenty thousand pounds for four years.

At the bustling port of Nantes on the lower Loire, they settled into a hotel to wait for passage on the American frigate Alliance.

To apply it to the case of France, if there had been a treaty of alliance, offensive and defensive, between the United States and that country, the unqualified acknowledgment of the new government would have put the United States in a condition to become an associate in the war with France, and would have laid the legislature under an obligation, if required, and there was otherwise no valid excuse, of exercising its power of declaring war.

Often the struggle was confined not just to Meath and Leinster, for others entered in because of empathy and alliances, even greed or unmentioned political hopes.

And finally, in late middle-age, a mellowing, a relaxation of the armor, just enough for the ruling age-group to make alliances and deal successfully with the outer world.

Did this mean Messire has secured the alliance of the current Sieur, or was he putting the Name on notice that Avila was not about to yield any of her claims?

Saito of Mino and the Hachisuka, but for many years they had been bound by a secret alliance to help one another in emergencies.

Some of their haunted light shone in his eyes as he gathered frayed nerves and related details of the Alliance armed force now mustered and marching from Morvain.

During the months the Alliance host mustered, Arithon had applied himself, unstinting, to life.

The headstrong young ruler, who had taken his country out of its alliance with France and Britain into a foolish neutrality, who had refused to restore the alliance even during the months when he knew the Germans were preparing a massive assault across his border, who at the last moment, after Hitler had struck, called on the French and British for military succor and received it, now deserted them in a desperate hour, opening the dyke for German divisions to pour through on the flank of the sorely pressed Anglo-French troops.