9 sentences with 'coalition'
Example sentences and phrases with the word coalition and other words derived from it.
• « The guerrilla advocates a coalition government and, eventually, free elections. Had this plan succeeded, Savimbi could have become the first president of free Angola. He was shot in 2002. »
• « The following year, in 479 BC, a decisive battle was fought in central Greece by a Greek coalition led by the Spartans, followed by a Greek naval battle led by the Athenians. The latter led an invasion of Ionia that defeated the Persian army. »
• « After the defeat of the Persians, the Athenians created the Delian League, in theory a defensive coalition that existed to defend against Persia and to liberate the Ionian colonies that were still under Persian control, but in reality a political instrument that Athens eventually used to create its own empire. »
• « The most frequently studied period of Greek history is the 'Classical Age', the time between the triumph of the Greek coalition against Persia in 479 BC and the conquest of Greece by the Macedonian king Philip II (father of Alexander the Great) in 338 BC. »
• « In 338 BC, following a full-scale Macedonian invasion, the Macedonian army crushed the coalition armies. »
• « Rome led this coalition against the nearby hill tribes who had periodically raided the area, and then against the Etruscans who had once ruled Rome itself. »
• « Mithridates VI led a large anti-Roman coalition of Hellenistic peoples first in Anatolia and then in Greece itself from 88 BCE. »
• « Marius himself soon died (of old age), but his followers remained united in an anti-Lucius Cornelius Sulla coalition under the leadership of Marius' friend Cinna. »
• « The war against the foreign coalition, which had grown to include Russia and the Ottoman Empire, dragged on relentlessly even as France's economic situation worsened. »