12 sentences with “alliance”

The ring's alliance shone under the sunlight on the beach.

The alliance between friends can overcome any obstacle in life.

Many countries signed an alliance to tackle the climate crisis.

After another (less successful) battle with the Russians, Napoleon negotiated an alliance with Tsar Alexander in 1807.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.