Many Basques would prefer a grand alliance between the Socialists and the PNV, but that looks unlikely to work.
But it may be hard for a grand alliance of the new establishment to draw up such a list without rancour.
There may have been some warrant for Roosevelt's suspicions, but he was more aware than his son of the ambiguities of the Grand Alliance.
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The Bremen grand alliance, which took over when the little state of 674, 000 people was in the economic doldrums, has rather unexpectedly proved a boon.
On this special occasion, a global movement for a culture of peace was initiated by the United Nations to create a " grand alliance " of existing movements that unites all those already working for a culture of peace in its eight domains of action.
And then, at around the half way point of the campaign, came her call for what she dubbed "the United Welsh Alternative" a grand alliance of left-wing, anti-cuts parties and organisations - principal among them, Plaid Cymru and Labour, working together to oppose the UK Government.
British Airways has failed twice in its attempts to form a grand transatlantic alliance with American Airlines .
There is talk of a joint democracy campaign by Mr Sharif's party and the 17-party Grand Democratic Alliance.
In late April the so-called Grand Democratic Alliance of parties demanding the lifting of the ban on political rallies, urged Musharraf to announce a time-schedule for a return to democracy.
On a recent Friday, he was at the state Capitol building in Denver, wearing a suit and tie and a name tag identifying him as a lobbyist with the Grand Valley Citizens Alliance.
Teams from consumer-products and sales firm Amway Corp. and health-care provider Pennant Health Alliance also work out of the Grand Rapids building, called GRid70.
There is, after all, something of a German precedent: the centre-left alliance under Willy Brandt which displaced a grand coalition in 1969.
Just before the attack on Fallujah, his followers quietly announced they had joined a pan-Shia electoral alliance sponsored by Iraq's foremost cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.
The idea of a Nazi-Islamic alliance dates back to World War II, when Adolf Hitler played host to the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, that city's Muslim leader.
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