Crossword clues for coalition
coalition
- Conservative and Liberal's identifying title in office, leaders together accepted
- Alliance in government
- Alliance of nearly everybody in Congress
- Independent standing in location upset governing arrangement ...
- Temporary alliance getting into trouble after Conservative leader starts to oppose all liberal initiatives
- Temporary alliance
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coalition \Co`a*li"tion\, n. [LL. coalitio: cf. F. coalition. See Coalesce.]
The act of coalescing; union into a body or mass, as of separate bodies or parts; as, a coalition of atoms.
--Bentley.-
A combination, for temporary purposes, of persons, parties, or states, having different interests.
A coalition of the puritan and the blackleg.
--J. Randolph.The coalition between the religious and worldly enemies of popery.
--Macaulay.Syn: Alliance; confederation; confederacy; league; combination; conjunction; conspiracy; union.
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.
Wiktionary
n. A temporary group or union of organization, usually formed for a particular advantage.
WordNet
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 growing together of parts [syn: coalescence, coalescency, concretion, conglutination]
Wikipedia
A coalition is a pact or treaty among individuals or groups, during which they cooperate in joint action, each in their own self-interest, joining forces together for a common cause. This alliance may be temporary or a matter of convenience. A coalition thus differs from a more formal covenant. Possibly described as a joining of 'factions', usually those with overlapping interests rather than opposing.
The Coalition, also known as the Liberal–National Coalition, is a political alliance of centre-right liberal and conservative parties, which has existed in Australian politics in various forms since 1923.
The Coalition is composed of the Liberal Party of Australia (formerly the United Australia Party, the Nationalist Party of Australia and the Commonwealth Liberal Party) and the National Party of Australia (formerly named the Country Party and the National Country Party), as well as the Liberal National Party (LNP) in Queensland and the Country Liberal Party (CLP) in the Northern Territory.
The extent to which the parties are in alliance varies at state and territory level. At one extreme, the non-Coalition National Party of Western Australia and The Nationals South Australia currently compete alongside Coalition parties, while the CLP and LNP, contesting elections only in the Northern Territory and Queensland, respectively, were formed from mergers of Liberal and National state branches. A Liberal–National merger at a national level has been proposed on several occasions, without much progress.
When in government at the federal level, the Liberal Party leader usually serves as Prime Minister of Australia and the National Party leader as Deputy Prime Minister, as is currently the case with Malcolm Turnbull and Barnaby Joyce, respectively. This situation derives from the Liberal Party's consistently superior numbers in the Parliament of Australia, and is usually reflected at state level, with Liberal Party leaders of state branches generally serving as Premiers (or Chief Ministers). The most notable exception to this rule was in Queensland, where the National Party was generally the stronger coalition partner, and also occasionally in Victoria and Western Australia. At all levels of government, the Coalition's strongest opponent is most often the Australian Labor Party. Based on the traditional definition of what a Coalition is, it currently only exists in federal, New South Wales and Victorian politics.
The Coalition (Coalición) is a conservative political party in Colombia. At the last legislative elections, 10 March 2002, the party won as one of the many small parties parliamentary representation.
Category:Conservative parties in Colombia
The Coalition was an electoral alliance in Puerto Rico.
The Coalition was formed in 1924, composed of the Republican Party (later the Republican Union) and the Socialist Party. It was generally in favor of statehood. Some critics thought it represented the interests of United States sugar corporations. It held a majority in the island's legislature from 1932 to 1940.
Category:Defunct political parties in Puerto Rico Category:Political parties established in 1924
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, nationals and different liberal organizations. Along with the Liberal Alliance, it was one of the two parties of the bipartidist system of that time. Between 1920 and 1925 it took as name National Union and during that period it was formed by the Conservative Party, the unionist liberals, the nationals and the liberal democrats.
Coalition is an album by American jazz drummer Elvin Jones recorded in 1970 and released on the Blue Note label.
The Coalition is a historic coalition between three confessional parties of Netherlands - the Christian Historical Union, Anti-Revolutionary Party and Roman Catholic State Party. They were united in their common plight for equal financing for religious schools. They were opposed to the Concentration. The Coalition governed between 1888 and 1891, led by Æneas Mackay, 1901 and 1905 led by Abraham Kuyper, 1908 and 1913 led by Theo Heemskerk and between 1918 and 1940 led by several politicians, Hendrikus Colijn, Dirk Jan de Geer and Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck.
Category:Political history of the Netherlands
Coalition is a television film about the formation of a coalition government following the 2010 United Kingdom general election. It was broadcast on Channel 4 on 28 March 2015, shortly before that year's general election. The film was written by James Graham and starred Bertie Carvel as Nick Clegg, Ian Grieve as Gordon Brown, and Mark Dexter as David Cameron. Graham wrote the film in the aim of giving humanity and enabling empathy to all of the figures portrayed within it, which earned it positive reviews from critics.
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.