The bonds forged under fire can never be broken.
Pakistan's alliance with the United States was forced, forged under duress.
It was forged under American tutelage and inspired by high American ideals of liberty.
Loyalties would be forged under pressure or in adversity, and these made the texture of Mr Halberstam's history.
Its context, as Weiss points out, was as a deal forged under the threat of Nazi persecution.
During the 18th century, she suggests, the modern British state was forged under the influence of empire, Protestantism and warfare.
Bracks accused the government of continuing to obfuscate and insist on a previous arrangement "forged under industrial espionage".
The Facebook-Microsoft bromance, I feel, is more nuanced than a shotgun wedding, an alliance forged under duress.
In rejecting a mention of Islamic law, Ennahda appeared to be making good on promises to preserve Tunisia's secular nature, forged under decades of authoritarian rule.
In the 4th century these letters were corrupted by the heavy insertions of an interpolator, and the collection was augmented by six letters forged under Ignatius' name.
HBO's series success was forged under the leadership of Chris Albrecht, who was forced out this year after a domestic violence charge.
