In Washington, a White House spokesman said the alliance between France and the US was "as strong today as it was last week".
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Another factor propelling Sprint into the arms of a suitor is the seemingly inevitable dissolution of Global One, the firm's ill-fated alliance with France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom that was supposed to offer a one-stop communications shop for big corporate customers.
In 1807, Russia and Prussia signed the Convention at Bartenstein, forming an alliance to drive France out of German states.
NATO, but actually represent a special-purpose alliance of America, France and Britain.
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Argentina's two main phone firms are owned by Spain's Telefonica and an alliance of Telecom Italia and France Telecom.
Britain and France, whose alliance dated to the entente cordiale of 1904 and two world wars, drew opposite lessons from this humiliation.
The biggest challenge to the incumbent airlines operating out of Heathrow will come from carriers in the SkyTeam alliance, that includes Air France and KLM, Delta Air Lines, Northwest Airlines News, and Continental Airlines.
"The Air France-KLM alliance has a door wide open to Alitalia and the day that they will want to come through that door we will be delighted to welcome them, " Transport Secretary Dominique Bussereau told Reuters in Rome on Friday after meeting his Italian counterparts.
But its global rivals for this outsourcing business, the U.K.'s Compass Group and France's Sodexho Alliance, each have at least 40% more sales.
We all watched the remarkable election, and I offered him hardy congratulations and assured him that the friendship and alliance between the United States and France is not only of extraordinary importance to me but is deeply valued by the American people.
The invasion of Iraq in 2003, led by America and Britain but opposed by France and Germany, pulled the alliance farther apart.
Opinion pollsters say that France's re-elected president, Jacques Chirac , and his alliance of the mainstream right, gained ground after the president stalked out of a football stadium when the Marseillaise, France's national anthem, was booed by supporters of a Corsican team.
There could be a new alliance of far-right parties that might include France's National Front.
President Obama and President-elect Hollande each reaffirmed in that phone call the important and enduring alliance between the people of the United States and France.
Speaking on BBC Radio this morning, IAG's boss, Willie Walsh, made the point that this would be a far lower share of slots than Lufthansa and its Star Alliance partners have at Frankfurt, or that Air France and its fellow SkyTeam airlines have at Paris Charles de Gaulle.
America's patience with France's foot-dragging in the alliance, never great, is now just about exhausted.
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By giving options to loyal shareholders, the government is guarding against the risk that its stake might drop below 50% should Air France swap equity with another airline in an alliance.
The 1300 respondents (all French and international INSEAD alumni and executives doing business in France) said they believed that such an alliance was more important than relations within the 17-nation Eurozone and within the 27-nation European Union when it came to ensuring long-term economic stability.
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Germany's Kirch and Italy's Mediaset agreed to form an alliance in European television, which they hope Canal Plus of France, and others, will join.
France intervened in Mali earlier this month when the Jihadist alliance began to push into central and southern Mali.
In his pre-Christmas message, Pope Benedict XVI rallied Catholics to oppose gay marriage by praising comments critical of gay marriage made by Gilles Bernheim, the chief rabbi of France, raising the prospect of an inter-faith alliance, according to many commentators.
One of the alliance's biggest weaknesses is the frequency of misunderstandings between America and France.
NATO's aegis, but be French-dominated and led another welcome sign, from Britain's point of view, that France has resumed its rapprochement with the military wing of the alliance.
America and Britain made it clear at the G8 summit that they want to see NATO troops involved in Iraq, while France said it did not see a role there for the alliance.
In 1341, in the Hundred Years War, an alliance was signed between Louis IV, Roman Emperor, and Philip VI of France at Vincennes.
While Air France-KLM has successfully got the go-ahead for an antitrust alliance with Northwest and Delta, British Airways and American Airlines have been less fortunate.
France, of course, has long been the bogeyman of the Atlantic alliance, always anxious to stake its claim to a seat at the top table and yet always seen as inevitably and irritatingly slow to endorse American-led initiatives.
France's labour minister said that Peugeot was in talks about a strategic alliance with General Motors.
Carlos Ghosn, the chief executive of both Japan's Nissan and France's Renault, is still interested in having an American pillar to his alliance.
But pressure group the Taxpayers' Alliance (TPA) said while many people would be rightly proud to welcome the Tour de France to Yorkshire, they would be left wondering why so much council tax was needed to make it happen.
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