(v. t.) To unite, or form a connection between, as between families by marriage, or between princes and states by treaty, league, or confederacy; -- often followed by to or with.
(v. t.) To connect or form a relation between by similitude, resemblance, friendship, or love.
(v.) A relative; a kinsman.
(v.) One united to another by treaty or league; -- usually applied to sovereigns or states; a confederate.
(v.) Anything associated with another as a helper; an auxiliary.
(v.) Anything akin to another by structure, etc.
(n.) See Alley, a marble or taw.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
(2) The defensive modifications of the functions of the ego itself seen in micropsia are closely allied to those seen in the dèjá vu experience and in depersonalization.
(3) Polls indicated that anger over the government shutdown, which was sharply felt in parts of northern Virginia, as well as discomfort with Cuccinelli's deeply conservative views, handed the race to McAuliffe, a controversial Democratic fundraiser and close ally of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
(4) To safeguard its long-time regional ally, Iran gave full political, economic and military backing to the embattled Syrian president.
(5) Others said it might appeal to Russia, Assad's chief ally, which backs talks between the regime and the opposition.
(6) Even regional allies disagree with American priorities about Isis, Biddle noted, which is why Turkey continues to bomb Kurds and Saudi Arabia and the UAE arm groups around the region , most notably in Syria but also in the ruins of Yemen .
(7) There are no more parties, there is only Greece," said Markos Bolaris, the new deputy health minister and close ally of the former prime minister George Papandreou .
(8) It also leaves Britain and its western allies marginalised.
(9) On 26 April 1937 this market town was obliterated in three hours of bombing by Nazi planes, allies of Generalísimo Francisco Franco’s fascists in the Spanish civil war.
(10) Iraqi police have also executed detainees in Tal Afar and government-allied militias opened fire on a mosque in the Khanaqin district northeast of Baghdad killing 73 men and boys, Pansieri said.
(11) Recent theoretical developments in health psychology and allied disciplines on coping behaviour and social support should be integrated into biomedical models of the aetiology, pathogenesis and clinical course of malignant neoplasia.
(12) David Beckham's plan to bring a Major League Soccer franchise to Miami looks to be on life support after the city's mayor, Tomás Regalado, previously a key ally in the project, said no to the construction of a stadium at a prime waterfront site.
(13) "This was followed later by an attack at the SPLA (South Sudan army) headquarters near Juba University by a group of soldiers allied to the former vice-president Dr Riek Machar and his group.
(14) The US and its allies are balking at Iranian demands for all UN sanctions to be lifted at the start of a deal.
(15) • Mubarak becomes a major mediator in the Arab-Israeli peace process, remaining a consistent US ally bolstered by billions of dollars in American aid.
(16) The Ayotzinapa school has long been an ally of community police in the nearby town of Tixtla, and Martinez said that, along with the teachers’ union and the students, it had formed a broad front to expel cartel extortionists from the area last year.
(17) [The US] is our friend and strategic ally and you can't just treat a friendly country's representatives like this.
(18) But the same court also just refused to hear an appeal of a Minnesota woman who's been ordered to pay more than $220,000 for downloading two-dozen songs – a testament to Congress' gift to Hollywood and its allies in the form of absurdly stiff penalties for minor infringement.
(19) Britain is being urged to halt the supply of weapons to its ally Saudi Arabia in the light of evidence that civilians are being killed in Saudi-led attacks on rebel forces in Yemen .
(20) And stopping them means taking action in Syria, because it is Raqqa that is their headquarters .” Isis digging in amid intensified airstrikes in Raqqa, say activists Read more He added: “We shouldn’t be content with outsourcing our security to our allies.
Confederacy
Definition:
(n.) A league or compact between two or more persons, bodies of men, or states, for mutual support or common action; alliance.
(n.) The persons, bodies, states, or nations united by a league; a confederation.
(n.) A combination of two or more persons to commit an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act by unlawful means. See Conspiracy.
Example Sentences:
(1) His church is looked down upon by a lofty bronze of Jefferson Davis, last president of the confederacy, white supremacist and owner of 100 slaves.
(2) In the meantime other icons of the Confederacy – flags, monuments, markers, license plates and bumper stickers on automobiles – are increasingly drawing petitions around the country.
(3) Europe remains a confederacy of wildly differing habits, cultures and political traditions.
(4) In view of the new prescriptions for radioprotection of the Helevetic Confederacy (Eidgenössische Strahlenschutzverordnung) the problems of radioprotection connected with utilization of the pure beta-ray emitter tritium are exposed, since the latter frequently is used as a marker substance in biomedical investigations.
(5) Winter Garden Theatre, New York, starts 9 November A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole didn’t live long enough to see the publication of his celebrated comic novel, so he definitely isn’t around for the theatrical adaptation, which will premier at the Huntington with designs on a Broadway run.
(6) It’s Jeb, like the ... (exhausted sigh) ... like the President.” I can hate that he and Confederacy-worshipping racists attach a disgusting tradition to the good and noble name my parents gave me as a piss-take about a Watergate co-conspirator .
(7) One symbol is gone; the statues and street names and school names and county names paying homage to the Confederacy and its slavery-defending politicians and generals remain.
(8) Ben Jones is the chief of heritage operations for the Sons of Confederate Veterans and traces multiple lines of ancestry, he said, to soldiers who died fighting for the Confederacy.
(9) The battle flag of the former American Confederacy will stop flying at South Carolina’s statehouse on Friday, 23 days after a mass shooting at one of the state’s emblematic black churches – and 150 years after the south lost a civil war fought largely over slavery, and for which the flag’s endurance has remained a lasting symbol of racism.
(10) The shooting triggered yet another debate about the divisive flag and its connection to the Confederacy, which seceded from the Union over the issue of slavery.
(11) The condescension is reminiscent of the musings of Ignatius J Reilly, the hapless protagonist of John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces, regarding African Americans apparent conservatism.
(12) Granted, citizens in the old Confederacy are no longer forced to say how many bubbles are in a bar of soap before they can cast a ballot.
(13) The visionary outcome of a leave vote ought to be a grand debate across the continent, a search for a new confederacy of nation states.
(14) The standard of the former American confederacy – the battle flag of a long-ago bloody, racial conflict between the states, and a more recent ideological conflict – stood waving deep in enemy territory, surrounded by modernity: in downtown Columbia, verandas and parlors long ago gave way to hipster clothing shops, to kayaking outfitters, to Starbucks.
(15) Political affiliation in the former Confederacy has undergone a fundamental overhaul in the last 50 years, during which time the Democratic party went from being the part of segregation to the party with the overwhelming support of African Americans, and Republicans went from the party of Lincoln to an almost all-white party.
(16) This time, the Republican party has replaced the Dixiecrats as the party of white supremacy and the old Confederacy, of racial discrimination and voter suppression.
(17) South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy during the American civil war , which began because of disagreements about slavery and states’ rights.
(18) The former confederacy was, in many ways, the most racially integrated part of the US.
(19) What is needed is a new Europe for the 21st century, to replace the ramshackle corporatism erected in response to the 1945 settlement, a confederacy in which Britain should be proud to participate.
(20) There is no knowing what the ineptitude of London politics may do to the British confederacy.