At least one alliance that is predicted to do well has a secular and admirably non-sectarian outlook.
Such friendships are fleeting: on a whim a party leader can shift the votes of a caste grouping from one alliance to another.
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 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.
It is highly unlikely that any one electoral alliance will win a majority of seats.
The airline dropped its application from joining the One World Alliance because of its ongoing financial troubles.
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One senior Alliance source told the BBC they believe what is being suggested by unionists "does nothing to build stability".
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.
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).
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.
One of the alliance's biggest weaknesses is the frequency of misunderstandings between America and France.
This alliance is not only one of convenience but an ideological alliance as wel l.
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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.
It's that friendship and that solidarity that makes and keeps our alliance one of the strongest in the world.
One imagines an alliance with Dorne, for instance, would have been better.
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Pessina, who owns nearly one third of Alliance Boots, is not taking out any cash in the transaction and instead will eventually become the single largest shareholder in Walgreens when the deal is complete.
The Pre-school Learning Alliance is one of a number of organisations to have criticised the plans.
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NATO, which having outlived the cold war has shown that it is more than the traditional one-purpose military alliance.
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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.
One member of the alliance is Professor Lorraine Gamman, director of the Design Against Crime Research Centre at Central St Martins School of Art and Design.
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.
Nor has she overseen a huge ad-sales operation and managed a complex international alliance like the one Yahoo!
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Such arrangements look less efficient than full-blown mergers: were it one company, the Star Alliance could save a lot in managerial overheads.
Its insistence on leading any centre-left alliance has prevented one being built.
Ecuador, a member of the Bolivarian Alliance, is one of the largest recipients of Chinese investment, particularly in the area of mining and oil.
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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.
One early example is an alliance LG announced Monday with YouTube that will ease the upload of 3D content from LG devices to the popular video site.
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