Sentence examples for extensive alliances from inspiring English sources

The researchers argue that this more dispersed pattern of human relationships allowed early humans to make loose though extensive alliances with friends and neighbours in nearby groups.

His successors, the Grand Comneni, reigned longer than any other Byzantine family, forming extensive alliances through marriage with foreign rulers and promoting their prestige through the cult of St. Eugenius and the glorification of their real or legendary achievements.

Perhaps not surprisingly, therefore, large terrorist organisations, and particularly those which maintain and build extensive alliances, are identified in econometric analysis as being two of the key factors which are linked to effective attacks leading to high levels of fatality.

She tapped her extensive alliances made in the financial world to create a place for the advertising company within the industry, and she managed the establishment of systems that Mauge continues to rely on today.

Diplomatically, the war refocused U.S. strategy on foreign alliances and extensive alliance making.

"We will continue to be a niche player and we have an extensive network of alliances, and we are open for more alliances and more cooperation," said Leif Johansson, the chief executive of Volvo, which is nearly twice the size of Microsoft in terms of annual sales.

United has also been in talks with suppliers and vendors to work out financial aid deals, as well as with members of the Star Alliance, an extensive code-sharing partnership with several foreign carriers.

Contractual alterations are also more likely when firms employ less extensive contractual safeguards in their alliances and when a parent firm's strategy changes.

He started buying into potential rivals and setting up his famously extensive and complex network of alliances and cross-investments with other pay-TV operators and programme producers.

There was a high level of political organization among some of these peoples; both the Huron and the Iroquois formed political and religious confederacies and created extensive trade systems and political alliances with other groups.

Pat Lawlor, from the Stop the Cuts Alliance, said such extensive cuts did not make economic sense when unemployment continued to soar.