uneasy alliance

collocation in English

meaningsofuneasyandalliance

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uneasy
adjective
uk
/ʌnˈiː.zi/us
/ʌnˈiː.zi/
slightly worried or uncomfortable about a ...
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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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(Definition ofuneasyandalliancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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But it was anuneasyalliance.
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At best, this is anuneasyalliance, for it is difficult to reconcile the interests of these social classes.
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It has always tended to exist inuneasyalliancewith other, more or less proximate, approaches to the sciences - not to mention with the sciences themselves.
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However, it was anuneasyalliance.
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It was anuneasyallianceof convenience.
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So anuneasyallianceis forged between the two.
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They did this through anuneasyalliancewith cultural modernists on the faculty.
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They form anuneasyallianceto steal and split the gold.
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Theiruneasyalliancecreates a social mistrust, dealing with issues such as prejudice and racism.
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They are forced to establish anuneasyallianceand cover-identities.
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They share anuneasyalliancethat sometimes borders on genuine (albeit unequal) friendship.
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Anuneasyallianceexists between them, but it has been suspended for the sake of the tournament.
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First meeting in 2003, their relationship was described as anuneasyalliancethat first blossomed into a friendship.
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As resources run low and external threats increase, they forge anuneasyalliancewith their self-sufficient hippie neighbour.
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This arrangement resulted in a difficult anduneasyalliancewhich began to disintegrate under the pressures of the withdrawal.
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These two rival assassins form anuneasyallianceto take down the head of a drug cartel.
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The two form anuneasyallianceto tackle the impending mutant extinction but part ways due to their drastically different moral approaches to science.
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