Their elites forged alliances and perhaps intermarried.
He was there as a child when his father forged alliances with religious leaders.
The Weltons' approach has already scored victories and forged alliances in unlikely corners.
In the preceding years, Israel had forged alliances with several African states, Uganda among them.
The commission's Syrian investigators forged alliances with key Free Syrian Army brigades as they gained territory.
They have also forged alliances with non-Islamic regimes, like the Nimeiri regime in Sudan in 1977.
He has joined groups (West, Bruce & Laing) and forged alliances with guitar heroes such as Robin Trower and Gary Moore.
They have forged alliances with the Gingrich generation of conservatives and strengthened their hand as the dominant voice within the GOP family.
While anti-toll road groups sprang up and environmentalists forged alliances of convenience with landowners, the governor and his advisers consistently misread and underestimated the opposition.
He halted the Turks in Bosnia, humiliated the Holy Roman Empire, built palaces, forged alliances, was hailed as the saviour of Christendom, and died without a legitimate heir.
So they've forged alliances with groups like the Arc, the oldest disability-rights group in the country, which has traditionally highlighted self-advocacy by people with intellectual disability.
