Sentence examples for alliance backing from inspiring English sources

In Bucharest Mr Sarkozy also confirmed his wish to rejoin NATO's military command in return for the alliance backing a European Union defence structure.The backlash was swift.

The two men forged a close alliance, backing the war in Iraq and pushing for greater economic liberalisation within the EU, often against Franco-German opposition.

Given the powerful alliance backing the fee increase, the legal action, which will likely be filed on Thursday, is all the more audacious.

Since the election, Pier Ferdinando Casini, leader of the Union of Christian Democrats (UDC), has partly detached his party from Mr Berlusconi's House of Liberties alliance, backing the government on causes it supports, such as keeping a military presence in Afghanistan.

An early draft of New York City's landmark bill to cut climate-changing pollution from big buildings threatens to trigger rent hikes that could fracture the fragile alliance backing the legislation and upend a historic effort to shrink the carbon footprint of the nation's largest city.

But that may cease to be the case if the Pacific Alliance backs its promising brand by strengthening its political identity.

Frederick was deeply alarmed by this: a hostile Austro-Russian alliance backed by British money seemed to threaten the destruction of Prussia.

In Syria, Isis is under pressure from regime troops backed by Russian forces, an Arab-Kurdish alliance backed by a US-led coalition, and rebel forces.

On Thursday, an alliance backed by Iraq's most influential religious leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, formally announced an electoral slate that was agreed on earlier in the week.

On Sunday morning the rebel alliance backed by Turkey announced that it had taken Dabiq after Isis withdrew from the town.

Canada's parliamentary turmoil abated, at least temporarily, on Wednesday after an opposition alliance backed down from its efforts to defeat the government.