Sentence examples for serious alliance from inspiring English sources

In response to those failures, the Israeli security officials said, Mr. Arafat sought a deal with the Iranians for a more serious alliance.

While at the Pavilion, Napoleon encouraged horseplay, and threw himself into games of blind man's buff and hide and seek, while also forming a more serious alliance with the amiable William.

The likelihood of a long-term, serious alliance with the Chinese is remote -- the nations, cultures, languages and geopolitical positions are simply too far apart.

It broke all sorts of moulds - a would-be prime minister who had heard of Broudie's band the Lightning Seeds; a semi-ironic, semi-dead-serious alliance between the passion of politics and the passion of football.

Still, he said, serious issues of alliance politics and international law were at stake, and sheer logic.

More serious, the papal-French alliance collapsed.

But the issue of the foreign Taliban troops remained in serious dispute within the alliance today.

It really is a serious issue for the alliance as a whole".

But the alliance faces serious questions about whether the member countries have enough in common and enough shared goals to function effectively as a counterweight to the West.

In many ways, NATO has been drifting since its post-cold-war enlargement, taking on major commitments like Afghanistan without a serious debate over the alliance's strategy and purpose.

Another problem, potentially more serious, is that the alliance leaders reiterated to Mr. Dobbins their reluctance to withdraw their forces and allow control of the capital to be transferred temporarily to a multinational security force.