Dual Alliance

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noun

the alliance between France and Russia (1890), strengthened by a military convention (1892–93) and lasting until the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.

the alliance between Germany and Austria-Hungary against Russia 1879–1918.

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How to use Dual 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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In short, Maduro is now facing dual crises: One economic, the other of legitimacy.
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But with GOP governors slashing budgets across the country, can this odd alliance last?
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The book details his confrontations with neoconservatives, and his alliance with Condoleezza Rice.
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Its 8-megapixel camera, inclusive of true-tone and dual-LED f/2.2 aperture flashes, features optical image stabilization.
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But this alliance is rotten, and cannot endure; the Western men are no partizans of slavery.
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Perhaps, like father, I am a snob at heart and liked the sensation of a sort of artistic alliance with the British aristocracy.
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He heard Mohammedans alluding to a Brahmin as a leader—so might a wolf and a snake make common alliance against a watch dog.
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They accepted baptism as a sort of sacred pledge of friendship and alliance with the French.
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Such an alliance was not to be tolerated for a moment, in connection with the last scion of his name and race.
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British Dictionary definitions for Dual Alliance

Dual Alliance

noun

the alliance between France and Russia (1893–1917)

the secret Austro-German alliance against Russia (1879) later expanded to the Triple Alliance

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