Sentence examples for propose an alliance from inspiring English sources

The Yorkshire landowner Sir Mark Sykes was the nonpareil of these meddlesome amateurs; in 1916 he carved up the Middle East in a secret deal with France, only to propose an alliance of Jews, Arabs and Armenians that would freeze the French out.

Swedish king Gustav II Adolph sent envoys to Russia and the Ottoman Empire to propose an alliance and war against the Commonwealth.

Really, the only Stark-related news we get concerned Theon Greyjoy, a longtime ward of the Starks', who goes home for the first time in a decade to propose an alliance between the Iron Islands and Winterfell.

Hastings proposed an alliance.

So when the tribe proposed an alliance, the Americans decided to give it a try.

Sunni tribal leaders, for instance, have proposed an alliance with Mr. Allawi, a secular Shiite.

Desperate to drum up interest in his beleaguered watchtower, he proposed an alliance.

Chaudry Nisar Ali Khan, a cabinet minister and senior aide to to Mr. Sharif, said he remembered that General Beg proposed an alliance with Iran and Afghanistan.

Besides the chiding, Mr Théodore proposed an alliance of his own this week, to link the French bourse with those of Milan, Madrid and the Benelux countries.

He proposed an alliance with the armies of the Fourth Crusade but then led a Bulgarian-Greek uprising in the Balkan Peninsula that defeated the Crusaders at Adrianople (1205) and resulted in the capture of Baldwin I, the Latin emperor.

With Prussia proposing an alliance with the Poles (signed in 1790) and Austria becoming preoccupied with the French Revolution, the so-called Great Sejm, which met in 1788, embarked on sweeping reforms.