Canadian Alliance

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noun

a Canadian right-wing federal political party, founded in 2000

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Words nearby Canadian Alliance

Canada mayflower, Canada moonseed, Canadarm, Canada thistle, Canadian, Canadian Alliance, Canadian bacon, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canadian English, Canadian football, Canadian Forces

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How to use Canadian Alliance in a sentence

First, one fights with another, then they make an alliance, then they go back to fighting each other.
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The focus here was on how fast oil would come out of the Canadian fields.
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Therefore, we should—you guessed it—develop the Canadian tar sands and build the Keystone pipeline.
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That gays (and other liberals) should choose Canadian oil because Canada “has no laws prohibiting LGBT lifestyle.”
How Canadian Oilmen Pinkwash the Keystone Pipeline|Jay Michaelson|December 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Castro actually flew up to Montreal to be a pallbearer at the 2000 funeral of a beloved Canadian Prime Minister, Pierre Trudeau.
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We prefer the American volume of Hochelaga to the Canadian one, although both are highly interesting.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
But this alliance is rotten, and cannot endure; the Western men are no partizans of slavery.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
Perhaps, like father, I am a snob at heart and liked the sensation of a sort of artistic alliance with the British aristocracy.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
He heard Mohammedans alluding to a Brahmin as a leader—so might a wolf and a snake make common alliance against a watch dog.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
They accepted baptism as a sort of sacred pledge of friendship and alliance with the French.
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. II: Acadia, 1612-1614|Various