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A Dictionary of Contemporary World History | 2004 | | Copyright

Alliance (New Zealand) A Social Democratic Party created in December 1991 by a number of groups including the Democrats, in order to provide a more effective opposition to the social reforms undertaken by Bolger's National Party. In the 1993 elections it gained 18.3 per cent of the popular vote, but because of the first-past-the-post electoral system, it only gained two seats in parliament. This under-representation of its voters was a major cause for the introduction of a proportional representation system (MMP). It gained thirteen seats (10.3 per cent of the vote) in 1996, and ten seats (7.7 per cent) in 1999. It became the junior partner in a coalition with the Labour Party, though some of its left-wing demands on government, as well as debates about its response to September 11, led to a split. Its leader, Jim Anderton, defected, and led the Progressive Coalition into the 2002 elections. These produced a dismal showing for both factions, with the Alliance gaining no representatives, while the two Progressive Representatives supported the Labour government.

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The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2008 | Copyright

Alliance city (1990 pop. 23,376), Mahoning and Stark cos., NE Ohio, on the Mahoning River, in a farm area; inc. 1854. It is an industrial, distribution, and rail center, with manufactures of steel, heavy machinery, electric tubing, chinaware, and industrial equipment. It is the seat of Mount Union College, where Clarke Observatory is located.

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Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms | 1985 | Copyright

Alliance

a union between families, states, or parties; the persons allied; a combination of common objects; a group of natural orders of plants, e.g., glumal alliance includes grasses and other allied orders.
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The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military | 2001 | Copyright

alliance n. a union or association formed for mutual benefit, especially between countries or organizations: a defensive alliance between Australia and New Zealand | divisions within the alliance.
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Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names | 2005 | | Copyright

Alliance, Ohio/USA So‐called because of the junction of two railway lines here. It was midway between Freedom and Mount Union, both of which were incorporated into Alliance in 1854.
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A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition | 2005 | | Copyright

alliance French; sauce made from reduced (partially concentrated) white wine with tarragon vinegar and egg yolk.
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A Dictionary of Ecology | 2004 | | Copyright

alliance In phytosociology, a grouping of closely related associations. See also plant association.
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A Dictionary of Plant Sciences | 1998 | | Copyright

alliance In phytosociology, a grouping of closely related associations. See also PLANT ASSOCIATION.
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

alliance XIII. — OF. aliance (mod. alliance), f. alier ALLY2; see -ANCE.
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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

alliance •abeyance, conveyance, purveyance •creance • ambience •irradiance, radiance •expedience, obedience •audience •dalliance, mésalliance •salience •consilience, resilience •emollience • ebullience •convenience, lenience, provenience •impercipience, incipience, percipience •variance • experience •luxuriance, prurience •nescience • omniscience •insouciance • deviance •subservience • transience •alliance, appliance, compliance, defiance, misalliance, neuroscience, reliance, science •allowance •annoyance, clairvoyance, flamboyance •fluence, pursuance •perpetuance • affluence • effluence •mellifluence • confluence •congruence • issuance • continuance •disturbance •attendance, dependence, interdependence, resplendence, superintendence, tendance, transcendence •cadence •antecedence, credence, impedance •riddance • diffidence • confidence •accidence • precedence • dissidence •coincidence, incidence •evidence •improvidence, providence •residence •abidance, guidance, misguidance, subsidence •correspondence, despondence •accordance, concordance, discordance •avoidance, voidance •imprudence, jurisprudence, prudence •impudence • abundance • elegance •arrogance • extravagance •allegiance • indigence •counter-intelligence, intelligence •negligence • diligence • intransigence •exigence •divulgence, effulgence, indulgence, refulgence •convergence, divergence, emergence, insurgence, resurgence, submergence •significance •balance, counterbalance, imbalance, outbalance, valance •parlance • repellence • semblance •bivalence, covalence, surveillance, valence •sibilance • jubilance • vigilance •pestilence • silence • condolence •virulence • ambulance • crapulence •flatulence • feculence • petulance •opulence • fraudulence • corpulence •succulence, truculence •turbulence • violence • redolence •indolence • somnolence • excellence •insolence • nonchalance •benevolence, malevolence •ambivalence, equivalence •Clemence • vehemence •conformance, outperformance, performance •adamance • penance • ordinance •eminence • imminence •dominance, prominence •abstinence • maintenance •continence • countenance •sustenance •appurtenance, impertinence, pertinence •provenance • ordnance • repugnance •ordonnance • immanence •impermanence, permanence •assonance • dissonance • consonance •governance • resonance • threepence •halfpence • sixpence •comeuppance, tuppence, twopence •clarence, transparence •aberrance, deterrence, inherence, Terence •remembrance • entrance •Behrens, forbearance •fragrance • hindrance • recalcitrance •abhorrence, Florence, Lawrence, Lorentz •monstrance •concurrence, co-occurrence, occurrence, recurrence •encumbrance •adherence, appearance, clearance, coherence, interference, perseverance •assurance, durance, endurance, insurance •exuberance, protuberance •preponderance • transference •deference, preference, reference •difference • inference • conference •sufferance • circumference •belligerence • tolerance • ignorance •temperance • utterance • furtherance •irreverence, reverence, severance •deliverance • renascence • absence •acquiescence, adolescence, arborescence, coalescence, convalescence, deliquescence, effervescence, essence, evanescence, excrescence, florescence, fluorescence, incandescence, iridescence, juvenescence, luminescence, obsolescence, opalescence, phosphorescence, pubescence, putrescence, quiescence, quintessence, tumescence •obeisance, Renaissance •puissance •impuissance, reminiscence •beneficence, maleficence •magnificence, munificence •reconnaissance • concupiscence •reticence •licence, license •nonsense •nuisance, translucence •innocence • conversance • sentience •impatience, patience •conscience •repentance, sentence •acceptance • acquaintance •acquittance, admittance, intermittence, pittance, quittance, remittance •assistance, coexistence, consistence, distance, existence, insistence, outdistance, persistence, resistance, subsistence •instance • exorbitance •concomitance •impenitence, penitence •appetence •competence, omnicompetence •inheritance • capacitance • hesitance •Constance • importance • potence •conductance, inductance, reluctance •substance • circumstance •omnipotence • impotence •inadvertence • grievance •irrelevance, relevance •connivance, contrivance •observance • sequence • consequence •subsequence • eloquence •grandiloquence, magniloquence •brilliance • poignance •omnipresence, pleasance, presence •complaisance • malfeasance •incognizance, recognizance •usance • recusance

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