9 sentences with 'alliance'
Example sentences and phrases with the word alliance and other words derived from it.
• « Pompey reacted by forming an alliance with Crassus and Julius Caesar, who was a member of an old patrician family. This group of three is known in history as the First Triumvirate. »
• « Caesar subsequently arrived in Egypt and stayed long enough to forge a political alliance, and conduct an affair, with the queen of Egypt: Cleopatra VII, the last of the Ptolemaic dynasty. »
• « Mark Antony followed in Caesar's footsteps by forging a political alliance and romantic relationship with Cleopatra, and the two were able to rule the eastern provinces of the Republic in defiance of Octavian. »
• « In the 16th century, Henry's line, the Tudors, established an increasingly powerful English state, based largely on a pragmatic alliance between the royal government and the nobility, the landed class that wielded most of the political power at the local level. »
• « This alliance was underpinned by staggering levels of official violence through law enforcement and the brutal suppression of popular uprisings. »
• « However, these wars also led the other powers of Europe into a defensive alliance against France, as it was clear that France threatened all their interests. »
• « However, radical elements in the National Assembly anticipated war and persuaded the Assembly to declare pre-emptive war on Austria in April 1792; Prussia soon joined in an alliance with Austria against France. »
• « After another (less successful) battle with the Russians, Napoleon negotiated an alliance with Tsar Alexander in 1807. »
• « When Spanish resistance arose against the French under Napoleon, it was an alliance of conservative priests and peasants, along with conservative nobles, who led it. »