The rise of a Shiite-dominated Iraq supported by American power could well create new alliances between Sunnis and Wahhabis. |
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On balance, however, I think that the practice of making inconsistent alliances and following them up with first-year double-crosses is unwise. |
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These alliances frequently lead to peril and the narrative tends to exoticize the foreigners. |
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The rejection of international institutions and stable alliances is a signature aspect of this militant new exceptionalism. |
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In an ever-shifting matrix of alliances, people will always be looking for an advantage, which leaves others at a disadvantage. |
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His commissions were intricately tied to the political and religious climate, one of ever-shifting dynamics fraught with soured alliances. |
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It remembered President Washington's warning against entangling foreign alliances. |
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We draw up alliances with loyalties thicker than blood and we nurse old grudges with photographic memories. |
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He deprecated the practice of purdah and sati, encouraged inter-caste alliances and remarriage of widows. |
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Nearly all regional organizations and alliances derive from treaty-based sources. |
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Cherokee women and European traders or frontiersman sought each other to gain access to goods or territory and to cement alliances. |
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The question of alliances with dictators, of deals with the devil, can be approached openly, forthrightly and without any need for defensiveness. |
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The prototypical post-industrial forms of organization are networks, joint ventures, strategic alliances, and virtual organizations. |
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His affiliation, while always biological, coterminously refers to social alliances. |
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Our core alliances, therefore, must evolve to meet the demands of this new era or they risk falling into irrelevance. |
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I believe that the seemingly irrational logic of the national can still promote everyday alliances and popular mobilizations. |
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Oligarchies are established through these alliances and society is divided between patrician rulers and plebeian slaves. |
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These alliances led to increasing intervention in the affairs of such states and to wars fought on their behalf. |
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Some saw opportunities to forge new, internationalist alliances designed to break the chains of imperialism. |
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These networks were further cemented by intermarriages and mutual help alliances. |
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Rather than using the environment to facilitate alliances with outsiders, environmental unity came to stand for common interethnic interests. |
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So Britain and Spain had access to Indian groups and lent expertise in aiding Indian confederations and alliances. |
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Henry prepared for war by conciliating surviving Ricardians and renewing foreign alliances. |
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These companies are feverishly signing deals, hoping that the right alliances can help them meet their business goals. |
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Their alliances were indissoluble, their commitment to their colleagues, unequivocal. |
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It already has two drugs on the market and has numerous alliances with larger pharmas. |
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It pinpointed the difference between a theatre group and other non-artistic collectives, alliances or corporate bodies. |
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For many, today's vote was about what has to happen from now on, rather than paying their dues to factional alliances. |
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Pakistan has gained power and international sway through various political alliances, most significantly the United States. |
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Both parties relied on their own militias, alliances with clan chiefs and security apparatus. |
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She is especially interested in forging alliances between local designers and factory owners. |
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Single-issue campaigning always brings strange alliances and it's silly to be over-fastidious. |
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To this end, the Panthers forged alliances with nonblack leftists and established trade-union caucuses. |
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They strategized about how best to finance delegations to overseas sweatshops and about how to build alliances with workers' rights groups. |
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When groups with similar interests create strategic alliances, they are much more likely to achieve their goals. |
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Few white women were willing to risk the social opprobrium that open racial alliances might attract. |
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Today's technology also can interfere with forming solid alliances, which can stifle excellent ideas. |
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Over-the-board play shows that even alliances which are genuinely good for both parties are frequently questioned by the offeree. |
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These same handicaps account for Germany's lack of success in imperialist combinations and alliances. |
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We are a numerically small nation and are in desperate need of trading and economic alliances. |
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It called for unity with other trade unions, building alliances with public sector unions across towns and cities. |
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Such alliances can be developed by networking within industry trade groups and organizations that may indirectly impact your industry. |
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Policies have to be reformulated and alliances rebuilt in a serious, transparent and sober manner. |
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And they are in power in a United States that enjoys unquestionable military supremacy and thus has modified its approach to alliances. |
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Monitoring and attempts to access unexplored sites are ongoing, but new alliances must be made. |
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The teams divided themselves into alliances and as a result both friends and enemies were made. |
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The centre of gravity in Europe is shifting decisively east, to where new blocs and alliances are already forming. |
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The parliamentary members tended to coalesce in blocs, which were alliances in support of particular philosophies. |
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Gangs make alliances, keep delicate truces or live as sworn enemies with each other. |
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The region was dominated by confederacies of Mixtec and Zapotec royal families, who constantly expanded their control through marriage alliances. |
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Those alliances are visible in the very stones and wood of the mission buildings. |
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The wars were chaotic, an impenetrable series of vicious contests between shifting clan alliances. |
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New alliances are emerging that neither politically nor militarily may be benign to the United States. |
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Each family has a totem and is grouped by totems into a system of marriage alliances. |
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There are natural alliances between Entity Realism and metaphysical atomism, and between Structural Realism and the Great-Field metaphysic. |
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Although they traced descent patrilineally, they had matrilocal settlement patterns and alliances were formalized through the exchange of women. |
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But he had been banged up for a while, and didn't know how to put together the alliances, how to outreach and work with others. |
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The Cheslatta people have drawn from these local interethnic alliances in two basic ways to pursue territorial rights. |
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Our alliances around the world with other countries that we rely on to help us have been shredded and left in tatters around the globe. |
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Within the genus Maxillaria, rewardless flowers were found in all the species of the alliances studied. |
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King Solomon's alliances are seen here not as threats to the pristine Mosaic ethos but as props to the peace. |
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Reprehensible, too, were the succession of Cold War alliances with repressive but anti-Soviet regimes. |
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It reintegrates the U.S. into its alliances and assures allies that their voices will be heard. |
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Instead, Lovejoy recommends that practitioners develop alliances and become relationship managers. |
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A major and rather obvious benefit to forming these alliances is the ability to pool resources. |
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Both the bank and the entrepreneurial company benefit from these Internet alliances, Cairns says. |
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The council and the chamber should further seek alliances with such organisations as the tourism association for new ideas. |
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They would also benefit from alliances with community groups and other unions in putting pressure on their employer. |
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There is a new openness by unions today to building alliances with community-based organizations and churches. |
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The organisation wants to forge alliances with different groups to raise awareness about animal rights. |
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Some of his accomplishments there included meeting and building alliances with other producer organizations. |
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The government, furthermore, favoured cooperation with the labour unions and forged strong alliances with them. |
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Old alliances with organized labor and with other minority groups must be resuscitated. |
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There has also been a tendency to form national alliances of local and regional organizations. |
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It sometimes disturbed alliances and alignments, base agreements or trade arrangements, and friendly relations generally. |
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These broad divisions were reflected in kinship practices, women's land rights and agrarian alliances that continue to the present. |
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Already they are undertaking joint ventures and forming strategic alliances. |
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Many powers jockeying for advantage meant shifting alliances and almost constant war. |
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The resulting acrimony helped ensure that it would take a while to forge working alliances on the new council. |
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Their little world became wearisome and difficult as alliances broke and were reformed. |
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As a result, it is now acting as matchmaker in encouraging mergers and alliances that will slim the civil aviation sector down to more competitive proportions. |
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The ad hoc granular alliances described in Unstoppable promise less but may achieve more. |
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The very fact that so many troops co-existed with so many militants meant some kind of complicated alliances were afoot. |
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The extraordinary range of vessels shows him as a generous host, welding alliances while softening visiting dignitaries with games, drink and music. |
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His subsequent marriages were primarily to form alliances with his nearest and dearest as well as with more remote followers. |
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As is often the wont of those who have succeeded through factional alliances, when ambition calls, the instinct is to disown your own and condemn others. |
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While a united Korea's chosen alliances and alignments might matter greatly to the powers of the Pacific, they would probably not constitute a casus belli. |
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These alliances sometimes have great breadth and may be read as strategies of liberation that respond to the current ways in which capital is regionalized and globalized. |
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People on the outer get fed up and energised, and new alliances form. |
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The expansion of Anglo-Norman lords in Ireland took place through alliances with Irishmen whom it is anachronistic to label renegades or traitors. |
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He tried to repair England's reputation abroad by alliances with Brittany, Burgundy, and Scotland, and also by retracing the steps of previous kings to France. |
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They also received male visitors to their family palaces, and furthered familial alliances through an exchange of visits with female members of other aristocratic families. |
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In Chechnya, clan loyalties often supersede political alliances. |
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Given the tangle of alliances and expectations, this led to war. |
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This led him into a succession of alliances that were often marriages of convenience, as he tried to make his cooperative movement central to whatever form of society emerged. |
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Marriage unions that create family alliances and concentrate land, wealth, and status, such as preferential cross-cousin marriage, are favored in many Micronesian societies. |
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He has watched presidents come and go while busying himself for endless hours creating desserts designed to delight and soothe, mend fences and cement alliances. |
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Dramatic seasonal variations coupled with movements, conflicts, and alliances of Turkic and Mongol tribes caused the people of Central Asia often to be on the move. |
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Like many rulers, she used marriage as a means to create and cement alliances, uniting her daughter Henrietta Maria and Charles I of England, for example. |
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Dostum would be a central player, shifting alliances constantly from his power base in Jowzjan. |
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How do you see those alliances fitting into your long-term business plan? |
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Is it the realpolitik that in this era of uncertainty works to build alliances with friends rather than burning them on every end? |
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The calumet was a tobacco pipe, highly revered by the Illinois, which could be used to end disputes, strengthen alliances, and ensure peaceful relationships with strangers. |
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It is clear that global challenges must be met with an emphasis on peace, in harmony with others, with strong alliances and international consensus. |
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The drama follows the efforts of one Mrs Bennet to marry off her three daughters without any regard for the matter of true love in any such alliances. |
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When each failed to win control of the central state, the locus of conflict shifted to major strategic resources such as cities and ports, fragmenting the clan alliances. |
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The key consideration in war-torn Gaelic society was that marriages should seal important political and military alliances between the chieftains' dynasties. |
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The 3 major English Lords whose estates were within the Pale continued to exist, and formed alliances with the neighbouring Irish and became very powerful. |
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They seek to take advantage of each other to solve their own problems in the process of competition, which brings about some odd long-term symbioses and temporary alliances. |
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She has to demonstrate a renewed allegiance to factualness, to truthfulness, and that these private alliances she had with people for money are no longer important to her. |
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The UK's international alliances could be damaged by the incautious assertion of arguments under international law which affect the position of those other states. |
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While conservative often feel that such behavior reflects ingratitude, it is precisely this ability to let off steam that makes our alliances work. |
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This neighbor is unable to understand that inorganic divisions amongst this human race, such as alliances, nations, ethnicities, will never stay static. |
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An alternative notion sees development as creating new paths, breaking old molds, and perhaps delinking from particular alliances or organizations. |
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George Washington, as we all know, advised strongly, as he departed his presidency, that we should avoid all entangling alliances with foreign nations. |
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The Stalinist purges coincided with diplomatic efforts by the Soviet regime to form alliances with the Western bourgeois democracies against fascist Germany. |
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These international alliances, Edwards argues, constitute diaspora in practice, and that its inner workings can be most tangibly grasped in translation. |
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Abagha and Kublai focused mostly on foreign alliances, and opened trade routes. |
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The next period is the Poets of the Princes, when Welsh rulers fought each other and the English in shifting alliances. |
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In the 1890s the ILP was lacking in alliances with the trade union organisations. |
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By the early 1340s, it was clear that Edward's policy of alliances was too costly, and yielded too few results. |
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Meanwhile, the fiscal pressure on the kingdom caused by Edward's expensive alliances led to discontent at home. |
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Trade, intermarriage and military alliances fostered many social and economic relationships among the diverse groups. |
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In the early stages of the war, Edward's strategy was to build alliances with other Continental princes. |
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The British prime minister, the Duke of Newcastle, was optimistic that the new series of alliances could prevent war from breaking out in Europe. |
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The result has been an almost expediential growth of the past decade in the number and value of strategic alliances. |
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These alliances implied that these two nations were part of an emerging bipolar world, in contrast with a previously multipolar world. |
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The alliances proved volatile, however, and Edward was facing trouble at home at the time, both in Wales and Scotland. |
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The history of Qatar's alliances provides insight into the basis of their policy. |
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The Italian civil code of 1942 replaced the original one of 1865, introducing germanistic elements due to the geopolitical alliances of the time. |
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No former king had involved himself so frequently in the labyrinth of continental alliances. |
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Most alliances in which Germany had previously been involved were not renewed. |
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The most important such support came from the subsidiary alliances with Indian princes during the first 75 years of Company rule. |
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In response the Council of Twelve who had taken over the government of Scotland temporarily, sought alliances wherever they could be found. |
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The Company also has alliances with King Pharmaceuticals, in addition to the alliance with Fujisawa Healthcare, Inc. |
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Edward made alliances with the German king, the Counts of Flanders and Guelders, and the Burgundians, who would attack France from the north. |
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In February 1214, John landed in La Rochelle after creating alliances headed by the Holy Roman Emperor, Otto. |
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Military alliances like NATO and the Warsaw Pact are another forum through which influence is exercised. |
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Both were dedicated to the crop of sugar cane, and the settlers managed to maintain alliances with Native Americans. |
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The conquistadors made frequent alliances with the enemies of different indigenous communities. |
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As a defense against the Inca, the Andean chiefdoms formed alliances with each other. |
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Historians of that region refer to these alliances as the Quito Confederation, with the Kingdom of Quito being the leader of this confederation. |
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Lawrence River, making alliances with First Nations that would become important once France began to occupy the land. |
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This was achieved either by subsidiary alliances between the Company and local rulers or by direct military annexation. |
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Beginning in the 3rd century BCE, the Roman Republic began expanding its territory through conquest and alliances. |
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Taiwanese aborigines formed tribal alliances such as the Kingdom of Middag. |
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Akbar was a successful warrior who also forged alliances with several Hindu Rajput kingdoms. |
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The international community is working to solidify its alliances. |
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Unlike ecumenism, transformationalism is not an expression of denominational uniformity, but an expression of interdenominational alliances. |
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And then there's ISIS and what the Saudis call America's 'unholy' alliances with the Shia and Alawis. |
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Commercial treaties and diplomatic alliances were forged with China and the Persian Empire. |
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It's been well-documented that the Gulf cartel has formed alliances with the Sinaloa cartel and to wage war against the Zetas. |
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During the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, Spain pursued alliances through marriage with Portugal, Habsburg Austria, and Burgundy. |
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They headed to Tenochtitlan and on the way made alliances with several tribes. |
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In north Africa, Sulayman and his brothers forged alliances with local Berbers, especially the Kharijite ruler of Tahert. |
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Families were based on blood ties or adoption, but were also political and economic alliances. |
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As a software republisher, it has made many successful alliances with foreign partners including IBM and Disney Interactive Studios. |
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In 1160 Louis strengthened his alliances in central France with the Count of Champagne and Odo II, the Duke of Burgundy. |
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Until the late 18th century, the island of Madagascar was ruled by a fragmented assortment of shifting sociopolitical alliances. |
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Use of buses around the world has also been influenced by colonial associations or political alliances between countries. |
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He repaired the northern defences and forged buffer alliances to keep the Mongols at bay in order to build an army. |
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To avoid succumbing to Venetian rule, these two republics made multiple and lasting alliances. |
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In a shifting series of alliances, the Portuguese dominated much of the southern Persian Gulf for the next hundred years. |
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In alliances with various European countries, Russia fought against Napoleon's France. |
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Rus' relations with the Pechenegs were complex, as the groups alternately formed alliances with and against one another. |
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At this time, the eight cantons gradually increased their influence on neighbouring cities and regions through additional alliances. |
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Theodoric forged alliances with the Visigoths, Alamanni, Franks and Burgundians, some of which were accomplished through diplomatic marriages. |
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Theoderic the Great sought alliances with, or hegemony over, the other Germanic kingdoms in the west. |
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The Greens sought to build alliances with other parties in the hope of gaining representation at the parliamentary level. |
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Decebalus' foreign policy was also restricted, as he was prohibited from entering into alliances with other tribes. |
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It slowly rebuilt its relationships, seeking alliances with Russia and Britain to control the growing power of Germany. |
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Feuds and marital alliances brought the Abel dynasty into a close connection with the German Duchy of Holstein by the 15th century. |
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The upper classes often celebrated religious festivals, weddings, alliances and the whims of the king or queen. |
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Executed strategic technology alliances with Symantec and ArcSight and channel partnerships with VANDIS and SiegeWorks, among others. |
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Shifting alliances and treacherous allies bring the boundaries of the three dominions in peril as all seek to find the Shield of Skool. |
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The Boers formed loose militias, which they termed commandos, and forged alliances with Khoisan groups to repel Xhosa raids. |
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After discussing historical proofs, Carbone refers to contemporary marriage alliances that ended conflict and prevented war. |
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Through alliances with various Native American tribes, the French were able to exert a loose control over much of the North American continent. |
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Militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism played major roles in the conflict. |
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Wales has to stop all this inward navel gazing and forge renewed alliances with our natural friends across western Europe. |
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After the early 20th century revolutions, shifting alliances of China's regional warlords waged war for control of the Beijing government. |
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Internal conflict prevented the Javanese from forming effective alliances against the Dutch. |
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These became the most enduring alliances between the French and the First Nation community. |
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It is mostly seen in offsprings of consanguineous marriages, that is, alliances between blood relations. |
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This was not just a personal blow for John, but threatened to unravel the widespread Angevin alliances across the far south of France. |
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The conference was aimed at boosting cultural tourism and attracting Germany's major tourism alliances to visit upper Egypt. |
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A Roman province was established in the conquered territory, and alliances made with nations outside direct Roman control. |
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Although such alliances formed throughout the Holy Roman Empire, the league never became a closely managed formal organisation. |
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These coalitions, also known as male reproductive alliances, will fight with other coalitions for control of females. |
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The term also describes alliances between civil society organizations, such as labor unions, community organizations, and religious institutions. |
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The kingdom of Mercia, under Penda, became established around Lichfield, and initially established strong alliances with the Welsh kings. |
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Europe-wide alliances have changed the balance of marketing power, and will not be disinvented. |
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Current Molecular alliances include ATG, Guardant, IBM, Intel, Interwoven, Macromedia, Microsoft, and Vignette. |
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Both the Golden Horde and the Ilkhanate sought to strengthen their position via trade agreements or other types of alliances with other powers in the area. |
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He persuaded Henry that safety from political alliances that Rome might attempt to bring together lay in negotiations with the German Lutheran princes. |
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Edward's purpose was to strengthen his alliances with the Low Countries. |
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In case of alliances, lesser parties may pay tribute to more powerful parties as a sign of allegiance and often in order to finance projects that benefited both parties. |
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In Australia, for example, some individuals who wanted to become a member of their local ACJP were excluded due to alliances within particular family-based Koori communities. |
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Each canton formed its own alliances within and without the Confederation. |
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Llywelyn built up marriage alliances with several of the Marcher families. |
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This was easy to do as the native Irish had no great sense of national identity at that time and were prone to mercenarism and shifting alliances. |
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In 43 CE, the Roman Empire invaded southern Britain, making alliances with certain local monarchs and subsuming the Britons under their own political control. |
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This Gladstonian concept of a harmonious Concert of Europe was opposed to and ultimately defeated by a Bismarckian system of manipulated alliances and antagonisms. |
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It has foolhardily managed to instill fear in everyone, thus limiting its opportunities for alliances and making itself vulnerable to popular backlash. |
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As increased globalization created greater competition, strategic alliances have also grown, especially in the first-mover domains of new product and technology creation. |
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In the end, Napoleon had made no effective alliances in the Middle East. |
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Marriages between the members of the two Churches are very common although ecclesiastical authorities like to discourage such alliances, and do not grant proper documents. |
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There are colonial boundaries which are reinforced by the client states' division into Anglophone, Francophone, Lusophone and the Araphone alliances. |
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The French king maintained envoys in Brittany, alliances contracted by local lords often overlapped and there was no specific Breton consciousness. |
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Britain formed no permanent military alliances until the early 20th century, when it began to cooperate with Japan, France and Russia, and moved closer to the United States. |
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The Kadamba fame reached its peak during the rule of Kakusthavarma, a notable ruler with whom even the kings of Gupta Dynasty of northern India cultivated marital alliances. |
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As the Norman lordships became increasingly Gaelicized and made alliances with native chiefs, whose power steadily increased, crown control slowly eroded. |
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For one thing, the Campbellites disfavored the Baptist's confessions and missionary alliances, both of which they thought were unwarranted by Scripture. |
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Faidherbe built a series of forts along the Senegal River, formed alliances with leaders in the interior, and sent expeditions against those who resisted French rule. |
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Chrysler vice chairman and president Tom Lasorda said the automaker was moving ahead with plans to forge alliances, especially in emerging markets. |
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France progressively grew stronger and by the latter part of the century found itself repeatedly facing alliances designed to hold its military power in check. |
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Numerous alliances with other groups failed and weakened his control. |
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But by 1761 the alliances had shifted again, Buckinghamshire and Praed on one side nominating candidates against Stephens and the Duke of Bolton on the other. |
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Pope Alexander VI made many alliances to secure his position. |
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This document provides an analysis of niche marketing, loyalty scheme, sales tie-up and white labelling alliances in the UK residential energy market. |
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Such alliances also often have important political and economical ramifications, and may result in the formation of political organization above the community level. |
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His sensitive radar for hidden alliances keeps him out of trouble. |
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The Umayyads sought out alliances with various Berber confederacies. |
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Indeed, marriage was frequently used by Thai kings to cement alliances between themselves and powerful families, a custom prevailing through the nineteenth century. |
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The alliances, with Cloudscape Inc, Extensibility Inc, Fiorano Software Inc, PointBase Inc and Vervet Logic, endow Visual-XML with a range of new capabilities. |
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These alliances were typically exogamous and were made not only within the clan structure of the Zhou themselves, but also between the Zhou and their neighbours. |
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To counter the threat, the Umayyads crossed the straits to take over Ceuta in 931, and actively formed alliances with Berber confederacies such as the Zanata and the Awraba. |
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It incorporates a theory of diplomacy, of how in a situation of mutually contesting kingdoms, the wise king builds alliances and tries to checkmate his adversaries. |
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The causes identified included arms races, alliances, militaristic nationalism, secret diplomacy, and the freedom of sovereign states to enter into war for their own benefit. |
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John used some of this money to pay for new alliances on Philip's eastern frontiers, where the growth in Capetian power was beginning to concern France's neighbours. |
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This was reflected in the Warsaw Pact and NATO military alliances, respectively, as most of Europe became aligned with either the United States or the Soviet Union. |
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John spent much of the next decade attempting to regain these lands, raising huge revenues, reforming his armed forces and rebuilding continental alliances. |
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Lothar managed to increase his power, but this was reversed with the coming of age of Hugh Capet, who began forming new alliances of nobles and eventually was elected as king. |
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Drawing a distinctive line between themselves and Germanic people also incentivized alliances and trade as the Germanic people sought a share of the imperial wealth. |
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The Romans too read these cues, so that they cultivated their Berber alliances and, subsequently, favored the Berbers who advanced their interests following the Roman victory. |
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