Sentence examples for confederation of groups from inspiring English sources

It is, of course, hard to say anything definitive about the Tea Party movement, a loose confederation of groups with no central leadership.

One of the groups involved in Mr. Pearl's murder, Lashkar-e-Janghvi, became a crucial player in the Punjabi Taliban, a confederation of groups now holed up with Al Qaeda in the tribal area of North Waziristan.

The Cooler Heads Coalition was in effect a loose confederation of groups with the declared mission of countering "the myths of global warming by exposing flawed economic, scientific, and risk analysis". Among its first members was Ebell, who served as the representative to the coalition for Frontiers of Freedom.

The Taliban is a loose confederation of groups, some of whom are willing to consider negotiating with the government.

He says it means the Skeptics who describe themselves as "a loose confederation of groups and individuals who are interested in and regularly investigate pseudo-scientific and paranormal claims"—are doing their job.

What would happen if 10,000 people turned out for a peaceful march and then 4 of them burned a flag?" That is the quandary facing the anti-globalization movement -- which has gained its strength as a confederation of environmental groups and trade unions, anarchists and respected advocacy groups.

We must do more than present our party as a loose confederation of interest groups and issues.

The fracturing of Ansar Dine – if confirmed – would be a significant blow to the confederation of Islamist groups who seized Mali's north last year.

EM Abdul Rahman, chairman of The Popular Front of India, a confederation of minority groups, said that the election results reflected people's hopes as vested in the Congress due to the absence of alternatives.

AQ's franchises were guerrilla or terror groups operating in their own way, in their own region, furthering their own interests but as part of a global insurgent strategy – a confederation of independent groups, united not by a parent political entity, but by the informal AQ "aggregation" model that disaggregation was designed to destroy.

While traditional drug cartels are built around a family hierarchy, Guzmán's operates more as a confederation of different groups.