Sentence examples for contentious alliance from inspiring English sources

The first two chapters in this part are devoted to Pakistan's most contentious alliance: that with the United States.

This is the role they eventually came to play in the 1980s as recorded in detail in Lewis Minkin's classic study: The Contentious Alliance.

However, both leaders have since lost military support on the ground, with the emergence of a loose and contentious alliance of field commanders, known as "SLM-Unity" or the Group of 19 (G19).

The roily architectural union of Daniel Libeskind and David M. Childs -- officials describe it wishfully as a collaboration but Mr. Libeskind likens it to a forced marriage -- has already secured a place in the annals of contentious architectural alliances.

Moreover, extending NATO membership to the likes of India, Israel, Japan or Australia would not only prove uniquely contentious for the alliance but also saddle it with commitments likely to go unmet.

The accident, which destroyed the Japanese ship, and forced many of its passengers and crew into the waters off Diamond Head in Hawaii, stirred an outcry in Japan and raised new questions about the often contentious American-Japanese military alliance.

Last year, as the contentious Presidential election neared its conclusion, the alliance started to come undone.

Cross-play has become a contentious issue both due to Fortnite and the unlikely alliance between Nintendo and Microsoft.

The new alliance for food security and nutrition proved particularly contentious.

Not that it will make for an easy alliance or for simple voting blocs in a contentious budget year.

The Oracle Corporation and Salesforce.com, two of the more contentious competitors in software, are about to announce a close alliance involving software delivered via cloud computing.