Sentence examples for great coalition from inspiring English sources

Ten years later, a great coalition led by Albert I the Bear, margrave of Brandenburg, and the Archbishop of Cologne posed a serious threat to him.

Mr. Rusher, for one, urged restive conservatives to form a third party, the Independence Party, that would form a "great coalition" composed of "the great bulk of middle-class Protestants".

Raynald I of Dammartin, who was also count of Boulogne, was a member of the great coalition crushed by Philip II Augustus of France at the Battle of Bouvines in 1214; he killed himself in prison in 1227.

The government of Canada West had long been unstable when the "Great Coalition" of John A. Macdonald, George E. Cartier, and George Brown was formed and soon led to confederation.

With a great coalition of forces from throughout the world, Gog and his entire army will invade Israel "like a cloud covering the earth" (38 16) and will plunder and loot the cities.

The politicians of the Great Coalition, as the postwar government was called, were Socialists, Communists, and Catholics from the Volkspartei — the People's Party — and they had either been in the resistance together or in Dachau together.

"He's a great coalition-builder and he's been able to work with different interests to forge public policy in very difficult situations," said Desmond M. Ryan, a veteran Republican lobbyist.

It was the command center of two great coalitions: one was Western, led by the United States; another was Arab and Islamic, led by Saudi Arabia.

The president said Mr. Powell had "helped build two great coalitions that have liberated more than 50 million people in Afghanistan and Iraq from brutal dictators" and commended him for helping lower tensions between India and Pakistan as well as for focusing the world's attention on conflicts in Sudan, Liberia and Haiti.

It would be fair to say that over the past five years Tim Farron has never been the Liberal Democrats' greatest coalition enthusiast.

Reagan spent the Soviets into submission with the backing of the greatest coalition the world has ever known, NATO, and eventually ended half a century of world-threatening enmity at the Reykjavik summit without a shot being fired.