The phrase "a confederation with" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a political or organizational alliance between multiple entities or groups.
Example: "The treaty established a confederation with neighboring states to promote mutual defense and economic cooperation."
Alternatives: "an alliance with" or "a union with".
Turkey and Turkish Cypriots favor a confederation with far less integration.
Under such conditions, a confederation with Taiwan might, just, prove acceptable.
The Bogotá area, for example, had previously refused to join in a confederation with the rest of revolutionary New Granada.
Will it be a federation, more similar to the United States, or a confederation, with most real power kept by the nation-states?
EdX is organized as a confederation, with each member institution maintaining sovereignty over its MOOC production; Harvard's line is called HarvardX.
Unlike Peres, Rivlin has called for a confederation with the Palestinians rather than negotiating an independent state – something Palestinian leaders have long rejected.
Sepp Blatter, a Swiss, has had the job for 13 years and thinks he deserves four more.On May 25th his only challenger, Mohamed Bin Hammam, a Qatari who was once an ally, faced an unexpected obstacle: allegations of bribery involving him and Jack Warner, a Trinidadian who heads a regional confederation with 35 FIFA members.
The situations are different (Switzerland is a stable confederation with medieval roots, Belgium a rickety federation born in 1830, Luxembourg a tiny grand duchy), but they have one thing in common: multilingualism in the country's native languages is considered a duty of good citizenship for all.Spain, meanwhile, privileges one language.
Voters in the Yugoslav republic of Croatia today, as expected, overwhelmingly backed a proposition calling for the republic to become a sovereign, independent nation linked in a loose confederation with this country's other republics, provisional referendum results indicated.
Belarus is one-half of a loose confederation with Russia that was supposed to eventually lead to a common currency and customs zone.
One flew planes into buildings on September 11th, the other wasn't in Iraq until after the 2003 invasion and is less a wing of the larger group than what back in September General David Petraeus called "not a unified force," really more like insurgents who had formed "a loose confederation with al Qaeda at various times".
