Their offensive in Basra took weeks as the British sought to gradually expand their toehold in Basra, forge new allies among the population and cultivate new intelligence contacts.
You could try and ride it out, forge some allies, avoid them where you can and become adept at "covering your back".
Until America and its Pacific allies forge an economic counterpart to the U.S. military alliance, Beijing will likely continue changing facts on the water -- unfazed by U.N. arbitration panels or U.S. naval exercises.
The crackdown and some strongly worded criticism Duterte has made of the United States since coming to power present a dilemma for Washington, which has been seeking to forge unity among allies in Asia in the face of an increasingly assertive China, especially in the strategic South China Sea.
But the parties, some of them allied, have forged distinct identities before voters — including the most ardent sectarianism or an emerging nationalism rooted in religion — that may suggest both their evolution and the shape that Iraq's flawed democracy could take as the United States military withdraws.
In return, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., in a late-morning address on Friday, praised the mayors for their diligence and willingness to work with both foes and allies to forge compromises.
Cuba's involvement in Mozambique was as part of a continuing effort to export the anti-imperialist ideology of the Cuban Revolution and forge desperately needed new allies.
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But they said the potential was there, as politicians and allied forces try to forge one country out of ethnic and religious groups with conflicting grievances.
Despite the inclusion of Vietnam, his officials talk of "values diplomacy", an attempt to forge closer ties with democratic allies.
