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  • adjective Of, pertaining to, or employing a coalition

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Examples

  • Governments in Israel reflect coalitionary power relations and are the highest decision-making forum.

    Politics in the Yishuv and Israel. 2009

  • Liverpool, except that Mr. Huskisson and some two or three of the coalitionary whigs, were retained.

    Maxims and Opinions of Field-Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington, Selected From His Writings and Speeches During a Public Life of More Than Half a Century Arthur Wellesley Wellington 1810

  • He also acknowledged that "there are various sites where scientists have studied chimpanzees without any record of coalitionary killing or other kinds of violence."

    Primates in the News 2010

  • Researchers have never observed coalitionary killing among bonobos.

    Scientific American 2010

  • Mitani, for example, estimates the mortality rate from coalitionary attacks in Kibale to be as high as "2,790 per 100,000 individuals per year."

    Primates in the News 2010

  • But the researchers witnessed only 18 coalitionary killings.

    Scientific American 2010

  • He also acknowledged that "there are various sites where scientists have studied chimpanzees without any record of coalitionary killing or other kinds of violence."

    Scientific American 2010

  • In other words, researchers at a typical site directly observe one killing every seven years. in a response to Sussman and Marshack, published in the same volume as their analysis, that chimpanzee coalitionary killings are "certainly rare."

    Scientific American 2010

  • He asserts that both male humans and chimpanzees, our closest genetic relatives, are "natural warriors" with an innate predisposition toward "coalitionary killing," which dates back to our common ancestor.

    Scientific American 2010

  • Mitani, for example, estimates the mortality rate from coalitionary attacks in Kibale to be as high as "2,790 per 100,000 individuals per year."

    Scientific American 2010

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  • Quite interestingly, a google search shows that this word is mostly used in scientific publications, and in particular in primate behavioral ecology.

    May 16, 2010