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US
/ˌkoʊəˈɫɪʃən/
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[ UK /kˌəʊəlˈɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /kˌəʊəlˈɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts
- an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty
- the state of being combined into one body
How To Use coalition In A Sentence
- We need first of all a fact finding mission and then we need to put together a coalition of conservators, a cultural coalition.
- First, federal education spending under him is up nearly 50 percent over the final year of the past presidency, so the coalition's charge that the president is stinting the schools is just bunk.
- But the bourgeois and the coalitionist press represented this movement as a pogromist, counter-revolutionary affair, and, at the same time, as a Bolshevist crusade, the immediate object of which was to seize the reins of Government by the use of armed force against the Central Executive Committee. From October to Brest-Litovsk
- The opposition coalition has accused the socialists of trying to stall the process. Times, Sunday Times
- Pat Buchanan has built a strong coalition of supporters.
- Cuts to legal aid by the coalition government have led to an increase in people representing themselves. Times, Sunday Times
- It's the coalition forces who are to blame for the continuation of the war.
- The opposition formed a seven-party coalition and ejected the governing party from office for the first time since its formation in 1955.
- Coalitionism was not then only a political creed, but also a web of friendships and habits that underpinned political cooperation.
- Some cheered at the decision, but the president's decision is unpopular among some parties who priorly bid coalition with Yudhoyono's Democratic Party (Partai Demokrat - PD [id]). Global Voices in English » Indonesia: Central Bank Chief, the next VP?
