Coalition

//kəʊ.əˈlɪʃ.ən//

"Coalition" in a Sentence (18 examples)

According to the news report, the ruling coalition has secured 72 seats as of 5 p.m.

The new coalition government is trying to ride out the storm.

The Abe Cabinet is a coalition Cabinet where the Liberal Democratic Party and New Komei Party form the government.

The coalition force fired at her car at the checkpoint in Baghdad.

The coalition of the willing.

The "Coalition of the Willing" is a phrase that refers to the countries that fought together against Iraq in the Iraq War.

The coalition is trying to paper over the cracks.

The Prime Minister tried to convince his coalition partners to overhaul pensions.

Croatia will hold parliamentary elections earlier than had been expected, after the collapse of the governing coalition between a right-wing party and a centrist party.

We need a coalition.

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The Liberal Democrats and Conservative parties formed a coalition government in 2010.

At a time when Mr. Cameron is being squeezed from both sides — from the right by members of his own party and by the anti-immigrant, anti-Europe U.K. Independence Party, and from the left by his Liberal Democrat coalition partners — the move seemed uncharacteristically clunky.

In a quirk of German politics, the governing coalitions are often given names. The previous coalition government, headed by the SPD (red), included the Green Party (green) and Liberal Party (yellow) - together they were known as the “traffic light” coalition.

Sometimes the ante is upped, the gaggle of bowlers all working on their batsman in turn, like a coalition of cheetahs singling out a vulnerable gazelle, sending their distinctive balls down until the pressure forces a mistake or the batsman gets his own back by smashing a bad ball over everyone’s heads.

Majed Sultan Ali was on his second visit to the game reserve in a bid to photograph a coalition of cheetahs.

This is the incredible moment a juvenile ostrich attempts to outrun a coalition of cheetahs that forms a central part of the latest BBC programme to be presented by Sir David Attenborough.

2017 Giles Parkinson, Big utilities about to pay price of saying no to coal and COALition Renew Economy, 11 September 2017. Accessed 3 June 2019.

2019 David Llewellyn-Smith, Can Albo out-coal the COALition? MacroBusiness, 28 May 2019. Accessed 3 June 2019.

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