"The hostility that divides our city must end, and the absence of hostility must begin at the mayor's office," he said, distancing himself from Mr. Giuliani's failure as mayor to achieve alliances with black and Hispanic leaders.
After all these years, we are starting to see how shifting boundaries -- throwing the net wider -- is a way to achieve alliances in a new way.
Firmenich works with a local partner in Madagascar that helped 1,300 farming families to achieve Rainforest Alliance certification.
But the alliance decided not to offer Ukraine and Georgia entry into its Membership Action Plan, or MAP, a set of requirements and reforms necessary to achieving full alliance membership.
For that matter, Mr. Bergen goes on, none of the war goals articulated by the Bush administration were achieved: "An alliance between Saddam and Al Qaeda wasn't interrupted because there wasn't one, according to any number of studies including one by the Institute for Defense Analyses, the Pentagon's own internal think tank.
[ 39], The mayors of two of the municipalities, Hamar and Stange, replied that forming this new advisory group could be a wise first step towards achieving an alliance [ 39].
And we need to consider new ways to achieve clear cut alliances with long-term benefits.
The Han embassy opened official trade relations with Parthia via the Silk Road yet did not achieve a desired military alliance against the confederation of the Xiongnu.
An alliance with Iran -- even a temporary and limited alliance to achieve objectives only in Iraq -- would indeed be a strange thing to most Americans, though.
The question facing what used to be known as the Shura Nizar, or the Northern Alliance, is whether, if Abdullah loses the final count, the alliance can achieve more by compromise than by coup-making.
