President Donald Trump forcefully defended the United States and condemned North Korea and Iran in his first speech before the United Nations General Assembly, hailing "strong, sovereign nations" and urging fellow world leaders to "put your countries first," while trying to strike a cordial tone on the international alliances he had previously criticized.
Days after their meeting in Brussels, Trump plans to sit down with Putin for their first one-on-one summit, a meeting in Helsinki, that could be more cordial, further straining the long-standing military alliance.
It was Mr. Mason's work with Youth Turn that led to his new alliance with Mr. Hynes, who has been on cordial terms with Mr. Mason since the late 1980's, when he secured convictions in the Howard Beach racial killing of Michael Griffith, whose family was represented by Mr. Mason, Mr. Maddox and Mr. Sharpton.
These attacks had lasting political consequences, souring the previously cordial Lombard-Frankish relations and opening the door to an alliance between the Empire and the Franks against the Lombards, a coalition agreed to by Guntram in about 571.
Although these interactions were cordial, we found little common ground for forming a cross-division alliance.
New York's two Democratic senators, Charles E. Schumer and Hillary Rodham Clinton, have become significant players in Congress, partly because they have been able to forge alliances with Republicans and partly because the Senate is more cordial and collegial than the House in its workaday ways.
That alliance, in turn, depends on a prospering Japanese economy and on at least cordial relations between Japan and other U.S. friends in Asia, most notably South Korea.
Despite all the efforts to bring Moscow into a cordial relationship with NATO and the new post-cold-war tasks in the Balkans, the alliance remains the major deterrent to any future Russian expansion.
Britain also boasted very cordial relations with two of the significant new naval powers, Japan (bolstered by the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, signed in 1902 and renewed in 1905), and the USA.
"This is beginning to shape up to what I call an unholy alliance," said Robert Maguire, an expert on Haitian politics at Trinity College in Washington who is on cordial terms with Mr. Aristide.
