Sentence examples for close alliances between from inspiring English sources
But many social scientists say Hong Kong has never been a truly free market, but rather an economy of close alliances between local government and a wealthy few who dominate real estate development and other industries.
Over the decades, nuclear power has been fostered by a close alliance between the government, electric companies and reactor manufacturers.
A collaboration ensued that may have set the pattern for the close alliance between artist and print impresario that characterizes the contemporary art world.
Of course, their unseen husbands are brutes, as if a close alliance between women is possible only as an escape from unfaithful men.
Scottish cardinal and statesman who promoted a close alliance between Scotland and France and who was an implacable opponent of the Scottish Reformation.
Officers and political leaders stepped in with assurances that today's accident would not damage the close alliance between Britain and the United States.
Thus was born both the temporal power of the papacy and the close alliance between the papacy and the Frankish monarchy.
It provided for the establishment of a "close alliance" between Britain and Iraq with "full and frank consultation between them in all matters of foreign policy which may affect their common interests".
This close alliance between the government and the Russian Orthodox Church has become a defining characteristic of Mr. Putin's tenure, a mutually reinforcing choreography that is usually described here as working "in symphony".
His recent book for children, "The Daydreamer," had a nice Roald Dahl-like streak of malice to it, and his adult fiction has always heeded the close alliance between creative and destructive impulses.
When the emperor conceded French claims to Alsace and the Rhine bridgeheads, the "Spanish Road" to the Netherlands was irrevocably cut, and the close alliance between the Spanish and the Austrian branches of the house of Habsburg came to an end.
