Gordon Brown

People have now got the ability to speak to each other across continents: to join with each other in communities that are not based simply on territory, streets, but networks; and you've got the possibility of people building alliances right across the world.

British Politician

Carly Fiorina

We can rebuild an alliance to fight ISIS, but we have to lead, and we have to give our allies what they are asking us to do. We do not have to march off to war, but we have to help our allies fight a war which we need them to win.

American Businesswoman

R. J. Cutler

Reality television has borrowed so much from the world of politics, whether it's alliances or voting or the kind of strategizing that's done. Anything like that came from politics well before it came from reality television.

American Producer

Liz Kendall

If people do not think we are serious on the economy or about supporting great business, withdrawing from the world, not being strong on our international alliances... I think that could further undermine support for us.

Dee Dee Myers

As women have played an increasingly important role in politics, there is no question that they've brought a different perspective, focusing attention on a broader set of issues and building alliances with other women.

American Public Servant

Reid Hoffman

The key thing for me has always been how we realize the mission - enabling every professional in the world to change their own economic curve by the strength of their alliances and connections with other people.

American Businessman

Malcolm Wallop

Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.

American Politician

Romola Garai

Normally, when you're working on something, there are other characters that you have alliances with, and you have unified goals with some characters.

English Actress

Zainab Salbi

Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.

Iraqi Activist

Mitch McConnell

NATO is the most important military alliance in world history.

Alliances are always for achieving a common aim; they unite members' efforts.

Common Purpose

Alliances between organizations or countries are typically formal agreements.

Often Formal

Alliances suggest strength by showing unity among the members.

Strength in Numbers

Alliances imply that members assist each other for mutual benefit.

Mutual Assistance

Partners in an alliance might not have equal power or benefits.

Not Always Equal

The word suggests collaboration and teamwork.

Implies Cooperation

In biology, alliance refers to natural groupings, not chosen ones.

Biology Specific

Biological alliances are based on shared characteristics.

Common Traits

The term in biology is used in a technical or scientific context.

Technical Use

It highlights historical or cultural linkages, not just political.

Cultural Bonds

Emphasizes the interconnected nature of groups in an alliance.

Interconnection

Alliances in archaeology center around shared features or ties.

Shared Characteristics

 and there are so many dolphins, that scientists can observe, sort of, natural alliances that are formed. Social behaviors. But, you know, groups would form little cliques, males fighting with each other, mating groups and so forth. Quite interesting. You know, the way they raise revenue at this place,

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 teaches you a lot about power structures and alliances. It teaches you focus; you have to talk fast or say less, because you will always get cut off. It teaches you the importance of messaging. You have to ask questions in the right way to get the answers you know you want,

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 when suddenly, the leaders of two global alliances attained the ability to blow up the world. The number of people with actual doomsday buttons has stayed fairly stable since then. But I'm afraid it's about to grow, and not just to three.

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 For your fledgling kingdom guards the world’s only herd of tiny dino creatures. To you, they’re sacred. To everyone else, they’re food. The three closest nation-states have all teamed up in what they call an alliance of the hungry

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 the crown with her daughters in turn inheriting the position below her hyenas not only recognize rank and social standing but they can identify family members as distant as their great aunts helping them form alliances within the

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 position below her hyenas not only recognize rank and social standing but they can identify family members as distant as their great aunts helping them form alliances within the clan in a way that is more typically seen in the

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 working breaking down the walls between their organizations in working my alliance working partnership to promote a social impact in another levels of scalability so be a synapse entrepreneurs is one important goal for

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 And in the new world order, the question for these countries is what model to follow and what alliances to build. And many of them during the period of globalization had become used to being told what to do

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 way to defeat this kind of bully boy behavior when an alliance harasses a female with a baby she fights with all the fury a mother can muster protecting her child

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 this has always been an important part of strengthening alliances I've just been given a choice cut and this is the