Sentence examples for maintained alliances from inspiring English sources

The conference at Calais was something of a political triumph, but even though the French government gave implicit support for Henry's re-marriage and Francis I himself held private conference with Anne, the French King maintained alliances with the Pope which he could not explicitly defy.

Congress, for all its problems, retains greater skill in building and maintaining alliances.

Blair also said America and other Western countries need to foster, or maintain, alliances with Islamic regimes that are themselves fighting religious extremism.

But the Shiite group's leaders appear to recognize the importance of maintaining alliances across Lebanon's complex sectarian and political landscape.

"We both bluff, exaggerate, ignore; maintain alliances, betray loyalties, reward courage, seek affection; we annoy one another out of boredom; we mock our betters; we respond to flattery; we punish and humiliate those we can, and with those we can't we cultivate appearances.

His attendance at the summit is part of a broader US diplomatic push, known as the Asia "rebalance", to build and maintain alliances in the Asia-Pacific region, which America sees as key to its own long-term economic and security interests.

On the other side was the powerful United Federation of Teachers, which manipulates the current system and feared Edison's tougher rules; Acorn, the community group that is also an Edison competitor; and many politicians intent on maintaining alliances and patronage through community school boards.

For the last decade and a half, that justice has almost always been Justice Stevens, and he has used that power with patience and skill to forge and maintain alliances in major liberal victories, often locking in Justice Anthony M. Kennedy's swing vote by assigning the opinion to him.

Still, Kurt is the emotional engine of "Glee," responsible for two of its most poignant moments: dousing himself with a slushie so that Finn, struggling to maintain alliances with the football team without bullying his new glee club friends, won't be excommunicated; and consoling his father, who wants to be progressive enough to handle his son's sexuality but can't quite pull it off.

The schools also served to maintain alliances and open aboriginal areas for Dutch enterprise and commerce.

Whereas larger animals have developed more complicated homosexual motivations — like maintaining alliances, which has been found in certain primate and seagull species — insects seem to mistakenly partake in it in a hasty attempt to secure mates.