• You can also form an alliance with a colleague to mutually stage the appearance of overwork.

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  • They have been having talks with Aerospatiale, one of the Airbus partners, about how to form an alliance.

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  • British Airways and American Airlines have cleared a big hurdle in their two-year-old bid to form an alliance.

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  • It also wants eye care professionals, pharmaceutical companies and patients' groups to form an alliance to improve glaucoma detection.

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  • Brussels and Berlin would like to see Mr Bersani form an alliance with Mario Monti as part of a governing coalition.

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  • Mr Sharif chose to form an alliance last year with the Mohajir Qaumi Movement, the main political party in the city.

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  • Several plot twists ensue, leading Woody and Buzz to form an alliance.

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  • Following government budget cuts, Warwickshire Police and West Mercia Police agreed to form an alliance between the two forces in June last year.

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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.

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  • In October, he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Likud and Yisrael Beiteinu would form an alliance ahead of fresh elections in January 2013.

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  • Boosting: When very sporty performance is required, the electric motors form an alliance with the TDI engine known as "boosting": in this mode, all four wheels are driven.

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  • In America, the antitrust authorities have even allowed the pair to form an alliance to compete with Rolls-Royce to supply an engine for the super-jumbo that Boeing was planning until recently.

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  • LDP's right wing to split off and form an alliance with Ichiro Ozawa, who was once a political heavyweight in the ruling party but now leads a dwindling band of conservatives in the opposition.

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  • Most companies, such as Johns Manville and U.S. Gypsum, admit they owe more than they're worth and form an alliance with plaintiff lawyers to set up trusts--funded with stock and insurance dollars--that settle asbestos claims with minimal scrutiny.

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  • Two years ago British Airways and American Airlines, which share 60% of this market, announced plans to form an alliance that would pool their capacity and revenues across the Atlantic: hardly, you might think, something likely to help consumers.

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  • The decision to form an electoral alliance was reportedly the result of secret negotiations between Mr Netanyahu and Mr Lieberman without senior officials present.

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  • Council of Europe observers visited Ukraine earlier this month at the request of Moroz and three other leftist candidates who form an election alliance known as the "Kaniv Four" .

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  • The old Loral acquired Ford's satellite unit in 1990, and Globalstar emerged in its present form through an alliance that Schwartz struck with a few engineering firms and, most importantly, several large wireless providers.

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  • Last year, AAR, which is owned by four Russian-born billionaires led by tycoon Mikhail Fridman, was unhappy with BP's attempt to form an exploration alliance with Rosneft and secured a High Court injunction blocking the plan.

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  • Only by compromising on the form of the Fed - it was created as an alliance of formally autonomous regional central banks - could its supporters get the new law through congress - and so the Fed was born amid much of the same opprobrium Mr Paul and his supporters now heap on it.

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  • Of course, that might well be watered down by an Alliance government (and the constitution, in its latest form, though it enshrines Argentina's claim, also implicitly disavows the use of force to achieve it).

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