Sentence examples for precarious alliance from inspiring English sources

Failure to find a home in Europe would leave Russia with two unpleasant options: isolation, which is a proven failure, or a problematic and precarious alliance with China.

The United States has discouraged the Northern Alliance from moving on the capital, in hopes of preserving its precarious alliance with Pakistan, which strongly opposes the Afghan rebels and any role for them in a post-Taliban government.

There is still much disagreement within Syriza, and Mr. Tsipras could find himself navigating precarious alliances again soon.

The economy jolts and stumbles, wars slog on in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the horrors of a new terrorist attack blanket the news and draw frayed attention yet again to our precarious alliances in the world.

His success in the April parliamentary elections followed the disintegration of the precarious centre-left alliance that Prime Minister Romano Prodi had presided over since 2006.

Lebanon's presidential election is somewhere between fear of vacuum and avoiding the extension of the term of President Michel Suleiman to safeguard the constitution, and the precarious or permanent alliances among sectarian leaders and parties in a game that is far from being actual democracy.

Marcel's enthusiasm mounted as his position became more precarious; he drew strength from alliance with Charles the Bad but failed to win the Flemish towns to his cause.

In 1880, however, when two members of an expedition sponsored by the Belgian king Leopold II were killed by one of Mirambo's client chiefs, the sultan, already in a precarious position with Europeans, dropped the alliance.

The BBC's Mark D'Arcy predicts a Conservative/DUP alliance faces a "long, precarious high-wire act", which will be "beset by troubles and entanglements at every turn".

The current era of globalization is inextricably entangled with the same Western alliance that now seems so precarious.

She realizes that if she doesn't produce Renly's heir and cement the alliance between the houses, her position is extremely precarious.