defensive alliance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdefensiveandalliance
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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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(Definition ofdefensiveandalliancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It was adefensivealliance.
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It is a militarydefensivealliance.
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Evidently they amount to adefensivealliance.
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The idea is to have a partnership ofdefensivealliance.
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Its members are free members of adefensivealliance.
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It is merely proposed to have adefensivealliance.
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It was not just thedefensivealliancethat made that change, important though it was.
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Why do you arm against allies with whom you have an offensive and adefensivealliance?
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We do not intend this as adefensiveallianceagainst external threat.
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We shall be able to provide the political backing which ourdefensivealliancerequires.
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It has been the most successfuldefensivealliancein history and must therefore continue.
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It is adefensiveallianceby certain countries in that area.
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Once we accept a full workingdefensivealliance, surely a joint foreign policy becomes inevitable.
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We have made it clear that this is adefensivealliance.
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The two states made an offensive anddefensivealliance.
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You can have adefensivealliance—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 adefensivealliance.
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It is difficult enough to maintain adefensiveallianceof independent nations together under pressure of war.
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This is, perhaps, equalled only by the impracticability of keeping a strongdefensivealliancewhile palpably showing distrust in our strongest ally.
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What has come to pass is, undoubtedly, a virtualdefensivealliancebetween 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 adefensivealliance.
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Moreover, the accord established adefensivealliancebetween the two nations.
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Adefensivealliancewas 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 generaldefensivealliancefor all these countries provided one condition was fulfilled.
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It was adefensivealliance, in which each party declared it would protect the territorial stability of the other.
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