It's that friendship and that solidarity that makes and keeps our alliance one of the strongest in the world.
The Pre-school Learning Alliance is one of a number of organisations to have criticised the plans.
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Yet the opposition's alliance is one of convenience and fraught with difficulties.
And really beady eyes spotted that the national co-ordinator of the National Alliance, one of his coalition allies, is a man from Catania.
The American Muslim Alliance is one of a few national political Muslim groups and the first to meet since the Sept. 11 attacks that "forced Muslims to come out into the public square, " said Agha Saeed, the group's national chairman.
It is worth noting that in the 1998 election to the Northern Ireland Assembly, four pro-agreement (two UUP, one SDLP and one Alliance) and two anti-agreement candidates (one DUP and one UKUP) were elected.
This alliance is not only one of convenience but an ideological alliance as wel l.
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So as far as the Middle East and Central Asia are concerned, a primary lesson of the Cold War relates to the relative weight the US can securely place in its alliance with Israel on the one hand, and its alliance with the Saudis on the other.
At least one alliance that is predicted to do well has a secular and admirably non-sectarian outlook.
Nor has she overseen a huge ad-sales operation and managed a complex international alliance like the one Yahoo!
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Its insistence on leading any centre-left alliance has prevented one being built.
Such friendships are fleeting: on a whim a party leader can shift the votes of a caste grouping from one alliance to another.
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If it is only the difference of a few dollars, try to book with the airlines in one alliance to gather enough points for free flights.
It means that the combined vote of Sinn Fein, the Social Democratic and Labour Party and the Alliance Party is one short of the overall majority needed.
Meanwhile, an increasingly personalised quarrel between the Shia-led United Iraqi Alliance on the one hand and the Kurdish, Sunni Arab and secular parties on the other threatens to paralyse politics altogether.
Indeed, Yahoo recently axed plans for an alliance with Disney, one of the world's strongest brands.
It is highly unlikely that any one electoral alliance will win a majority of seats.
According to the Business Software Alliance, more than one-third of all PC software in use is pirated.
The airline dropped its application from joining the One World Alliance because of its ongoing financial troubles.
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It was clearly a difficult decision for the Alliance for Change and one that was opposed by several opposition leaders.
One senior Alliance source told the BBC they believe what is being suggested by unionists "does nothing to build stability".
She is also executive director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and was named one of Time magazine's Most Influential People in the World.
Both already have ties through the One World Alliance, and a tie-up with Iberia would allow them to extend their reach geographically into Latin America.
Ms Scherr spends much of her time in Mumbai now and has set up a charity, One Life Alliance, to promote peace and positivity among people, following the attacks.
But many Social Democrats, in Hamburg and at headquarters in Bonn, would not forgive him if he turned down a possible red-green alliance in favour of one combining Social with Christian Democrats.
Mr Cannonier, a relative newcomer to Bermudan politics, was propelled into power in December 2012 when his One Bermuda Alliance ousted the government of Premier Paula Cox and ended 14 years of rule by the Progressive Labour Party (PLP).
One of the alliance's biggest weaknesses is the frequency of misunderstandings between America and France.
One way the alliance can send signals is to endow the secretary-general, however fictitiously, with enormous powers.
One senior Northern Alliance official told Reuters that troops from other countries were not welcomed on Afghan soil.
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