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defensive alliance

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meanings of defensiveand alliance


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defensive
adjective
uk /dɪˈfen.sɪv/ us /dɪˈfen.sɪv/
used to protect someone or something ...
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alliance
noun[C]
uk /əˈlaɪ.əns/ us /əˈlaɪ.əns/
a group of countries, political parties, or people who have agreed to work together because of shared interests ...
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Examples of defensive alliance


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It was a defensivealliance.
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It is a military defensivealliance.
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Evidently they amount to a defensivealliance.
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The idea is to have a partnership of defensivealliance.
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Its members are free members of a defensivealliance.
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It is merely proposed to have a defensivealliance.
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It was not just the defensivealliance that made that change, important though it was.
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Why do you arm against allies with whom you have an offensive and a defensivealliance?
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We do not intend this as a defensivealliance against external threat.
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We shall be able to provide the political backing which our defensivealliance requires.
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It has been the most successful defensivealliance in history and must therefore continue.
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It is a defensivealliance by certain countries in that area.
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Once we accept a full working defensivealliance, surely a joint foreign policy becomes inevitable.
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We have made it clear that this is a defensivealliance.
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The two states made an offensive and defensivealliance.
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You can have a defensivealliance—that is the old way—against some country or group of countries.
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Many of us are firmly convinced that this country must be a member of a defensivealliance.
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It is difficult enough to maintain a defensivealliance of independent nations together under pressure of war.
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This is, perhaps, equalled only by the impracticability of keeping a strong defensivealliance while palpably showing distrust in our strongest ally.
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What has come to pass is, undoubtedly, a virtual defensivealliance between these two countries against any unprovoked act of aggression towards either of them.
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Lengthy pairings have also been described in terms of a defensivealliance.
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Moreover, the accord established a defensivealliance between the two nations.
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A defensivealliance was also concluded, but included in the public part of the treaty.
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I should not have anything like the same objection to the idea of a general defensivealliance for all these countries provided one condition was fulfilled.
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It was a defensivealliance, in which each party declared it would protect the territorial stability of the other.
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