Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An alliance entered into to oppose, offset, or counterbalance another alliance.
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Examples
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He was in Yekaterinburg, Russia, forming a counter-alliance against the United States with Russia and China's presidents who are leery of Democracy and afraid of transparency.
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For every counter-alliance there is a counter-counter-alliance and the U.S. might soon find itself leading an unlikely alliance of Sunni Arabs and Israel.
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So Rice is constructing an "anti-Iran counter-alliance."
David Fiderer: David Brooks Mangles History to Mask Neocon Failures 2008
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A counter-alliance was formed between England, France, and Prussia; and English fleets were sent, one to the Baltic to awe the czarina, another to the coast of Spain to check that government and protect Gibraltar, and a third to Porto Bello, on the Spanish
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There he works out a deal to get himself off the island by forming a counter-alliance with Team Old Guy B.
Sledgeweb's LOST ... STUFF CastawayCayley 2010
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The counter-alliance that I started referring to as the "Cult Alliance" last episode thanks to Bonez's creepy assertion that they're "very welcoming," seems to have another name picked out for themselves:
Vh1 Blog 2009
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