Sentence examples for controversial alliance from inspiring English sources

In January he announced a controversial alliance with the Kremlin-controlled Russian oil company Rosneft.

He favors Michel Aoun, the Christian leader and former general who forged a controversial alliance with Hezbollah three years ago.

For some here, the new closeness with secular, moderate Turkey represents a move away from Syria's controversial alliance with Iran.

This expansion was partly due to a controversial alliance in the late 1990s with the New National Party, a modernised version of the old apartheid-era ruling party.

BP's controversial alliance with the Kremlin-controlled oil company Rosneft is in tatters after a tribunal backed the company's Russian partners in blocking the deal.

Mr. Schmidt was closely involved in some of Bertelsmann's most prominent enterprises in the United States, including its controversial alliance with Napster, the music-sharing service.

Here too Mr Maliki has been weaving controversial alliances, backing one group against another.

But unlike the Graceland recluse, Davis was rescued from his downward spiral by the determined efforts of friends and family, and he returned to playing and to further controversial alliances with pop stars such as Prince before his final decline and death.Mr Carr sees his subject as a heroic, Promethean figure, but Davis can also seem arrogant and abusive, particularly where women were concerned.

The ceremony was a relection of the Nation of Islam leader's recent - and controversial - alliance with the Unification Church of the Rev Sun Myung Moon, which has long been fond of staging mass weddings.

David Cameron's controversial European alliance, which provoked sharp exchanges during the leaders' debates, is set to unravel.

Bob Dudley, chief executive of BP, will face hostile shareholders on Thursday and, barring an 11th-hour breakthrough, the humiliating prospect of his controversial proposed alliance with Kremlin controlled oil company Rosneft collapsing.