Qedarite domination of northwest Arabia involved alliances between the kings of Qedar and the kings of Dedan (Al-'Ula).
Such possible conflicts are described in suits or settlements involving Alliance and Bank One, and suits against the Pimco stock funds and Franklin Templeton.
One case involves Alliance One, an American tobacco company formed in 2005 by the merger of Dimon Incorporated and Standard Commercial Corporation.
"Global" executive programmes, often involving alliances between multiple schools in multiple countries, popped up in droves.
The latest deal involves alliances with Comcast, another big cable firm, and Microsoft.
Mr. Barak has political options that would involve alliances incompatible with any immediate progress at the peace tables.
All in all, Daniel's first attempt at quick revenge was a failure, and so the war entered a slower, more complex and costly second phase, involving alliance-building, negotiation, and incessant plotting.
Russia and China, for now, will remain apart: NATO governments cannot yet trust them not to pass know-how to the wrong people, or to use it against the West.The next stage of this globalisation will involve alliances between American and European companies.
Part of Autodesk's effort to promote its new consumer software involves alliances both with Ponoko, a New Zealand Internet company that makes objects on demand using 3-D printers, and TechShop, a small chain of construction shops with its own grinders and plasma cutters.
Mitterrand's strategy involved an alliance with the powerful Communist party.
He has eschewed the slow route to Senate prominence, which would have involved building alliances, for the fast track, which means playing the firebrand, playing to the cheap seats and playing to a news cycle that thrills to conflict.
