A persistent rumour on the Web holds that Durin IV was the king who led the Dwarves from Khazad-dûm to fight against Sauron with the Last Alliance at the end of the Second Age.

* Official Web site of the Blue Goose Alliance — a non-profit organization promoting the establishment of the National Wildlife Refuge Service as a separate agency within the U. S. Department of the Interior

Liberty Alliance also focused on identity web services standards, publicly releasing the Liberty Identity Web Services Framework in April 2004.

* Sensor Web Alliance – An organization that is developing a collaborative research platform called the Sensor Web Alliance ( SWA ).

The Secular Coalition for America was founded in 2002 with a melding of four U. S. secular organizations: Atheist Alliance International, the Institute for Humanist Studies, the Secular Student Alliance, and the Secular Web.

* Open Design Alliance Official Web Site

On the No Side, the principal campaigns were those of the Green Party, Sinn Féin, Anthony Coughlan's National Platform, Justin Barrett's No to Nice campaign, and Roger Cole's Peace and Neutrality Alliance.

Many of these dissidents objected to Respect on principle and all objected to the way the decision to join it was carried out, many forming the Socialist Alliance Democracy Platform.

** Old site of Socialist Alliance Democracy Platform

* Democratic Socialist Alliance ( formerly the Socialist Alliance Democracy Platform )

Since 1999 the AWL has regularly stood candidates in local and general elections, either through left unity initiatives such as the Socialist Alliance, Socialist Alliance Democracy Platform and Socialist Green Unity Coalition or independently.

The new faction called instead for the CPGB ( PCC ) to rejoin a Socialist Alliance reform current called the Socialist Alliance Democracy Platform.

In Britain, the group's supporters were active in the Socialist Alliance and then the Democracy Platform of that grouping.

The AGS has sponsored various attempts by one of its affiliate organisations ( Rugby Red Green Alliance ) and the Socialist Alliance Democracy Platform to re-form the Socialist Alliance from 2005 onwards but this has had little success and the AGS concluded in 2011 that such efforts were no longer politically productive ( although the AGS still actively supports the idea of a broader Socialist / Environmentalist political alliance ).

* Polish parliamentary election, 2005 – resulted in a widely-expected heavy defeat for the post-Communist Democratic Left Alliance government, with conservative parties such as Law and Justice and Civic Platform emerging as the dominant parties in Poland.

* Trusted Computing Platform Alliance

Politically the Red Party was a continuation of the Red Platform of the CPGB formed in April 2004 in opposition to the CPGB's electoral support for RESPECT The Unity Coalition, with the aim to reverse the CPGB's withdrawal from the Socialist Alliance Democracy Platform.

* Socialist Alliance Democracy Platform

It is supportive of the Socialist Alliance Democracy Platform and the Merseyside-based United Socialist Party.

Only two parties, Alliance of the Democratic Left ( SLD )- Labour Union and Social Democracy of Poland, ( both social democrats ) support the bill, while Civic Platform ( PO ), League of Polish Families and Law and Justice ( PiS ) ( all conservative ) opposed it.

It is a part of the Aspect Integrator Platform ( AIP ) from the Industrial IT Alliance.

The new rules adopted by the Socialist Alliance in late 2001 ( pushed through by the organised block-voting of SWP members ) meant that activists and members of local Social Alliances affiliated to the national body had, in effect, to expel any members who declined to join the Socialist Alliance Party.

In cases where a local Socialist Alliance declined to join the national body under these conditions the SWP instructed their local comrades to withdraw en-masse in an attempt to close the local Socialist Alliance down.

The Socialist Party left the Alliance in 2001 ( when the SWP pushed through the change to turn the alliance into a party ) while Workers Power ( themselves a splinter group from the SWP back in the 1970s ) left in 2003.

As the SWP switched its priorities to working within Respect the Socialist Alliance became virtually moribund during 2004 and was formally wound up in February 2005.

The Leeds Left Alliance had previously been involved in the former Socialist Alliance and a small number of AGS members remained involved in it until it was dissolved by the SWP ( who had effectively taken it over ) in February 2005.

Respect almost immediately won a council seat in Preston as SWP member Michael Lavalette was elected as a Socialist Alliance candidate in 2003, but subsequently voted with the majority of the SWP to wind down the Socialist Alliance in favour of the newly formed party, who was joined by a former Labour councillor, Steve Brooks.

In particular Galloway called for the appointment of a National Organiser: Nick Wrack, former head of the Socialist Alliance and an SWP member.

Robertson was a leader of the SWP ’ s youth group, the Young Socialist Alliance, when it was founded in 1960.

A group led by Tim Wohlworth did not approve of this merger and joined the SWP affiliated Young Socialist Alliance.

Britton joined the Young Socialist Alliance, the youth organization of the SWP, in 1962, at the age of 20.

The Young Socialist Alliance ( YSA ) was a Trotskyist youth group of the Socialist Workers Party ( SWP ) in the United States of America.

* The Socialist Environmental Alliance: The SWP and Partition of Ireland ( The Blanket )

It is because of the lack of support for fiscal conservatism that federal parties such as the Canadian Alliance never had much success in the region, and the level of support for the new Conservative Party of Canada in the region is uncertain.

The leftist elements within Velasco's Democratic Alliance, which dominated the constituent assembly that was convened to write a new constitution, were nonetheless destined to be disappointed.

Before a new Grand Alliance could be concluded Leopold I prepared to send an expedition to seize the Spanish lands in Italy.

* 1778 – American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France signaling official recognition of the new republic.

After the abdication of Napoleon following the War of the Sixth Coalition, Austria participated as a leading member of the Holy Alliance at the Congress of Vienna, which was largely dominated by Francis's chancellor Klemens Wenzel, Prince von Metternich culminating in a new European map and the restoration of Francis ' ancient dominions ( except the Holy Roman Empire which was dissolved ).

* 1704 1 August ( NS ): ( 21 July ( OS )) – During the War of the Spanish Succession, and when returning from a failed expedition to Barcelona, an Anglo-Dutch fleet, under the command of Sir George Rooke, chief commander of the Alliance Navy, began a new siege ( the eleventh siege of the town ).

This happened because in the new states of Germany, the Greens, in a joint effort with Alliance 90, a heterogenous grouping of civil rights activists, were able to gain more than 5 % of the vote.

Although the five Gundams succeed in destroying several of OZ's supply bases and mobile suit factories, the sinister organization is still able to complete its ultimate goal of overturning the Alliance and becoming the new ruler of Earth and the colonies.

Although Hezbollah had joined the new government in 2005, it remained staunchly opposed to the March 14 Alliance.

The election set against two new parties, the Democratic Party ( founded in October 2007 by the union of the Democrats of the Left and Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy ) led by Walter Veltroni, and The People of Freedom ( federation of Forza Italia, National Alliance and other parties ) led by Silvio Berlusconi.

Retirement of the old activists was presented in media as “ inflow of new blood into the Democratic Left Alliance ”.

On May 3, 2006, the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, Cadbury Schweppes, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and the American Beverage Association announced new School Beverage Guidelines that will voluntarily remove high-calorie soft drinks from all U. S. schools.

These writers jointly set up the Mercury Workshop in 1992, which eventually merged with the New Musicals Alliance to become MMD, a UK-based organisation developing new musical theatre, of which Sondheim continues to be patron.

During the 2006 Riksdag elections the new Alliance for Sweden ( which subsequently won the election, to form a coalition government ) stated a policy aim to sell its stake in TeliaSonera.

While Progressive Conservative Leader Joe Clark rebuffed the notion, the talks moved ahead and eventually in December 2003, the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative parties voted to rejoin into a new party called the Conservative Party of Canada.

In 2000, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization was established to strengthen routine vaccinations and introduce new and under-used vaccines in countries with a per capita GDP of under US $ 1000.

* February 6 – American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France, signaling official French recognition of the new republic.

The left wing faction either joined the Democratic Party of the Left or stayed within the new Italian People's Party, while some right-wingers others joined National Alliance, however in 1994 – 2000 most Christian Democrats joined Forza Italia, which would have become the party with more ex-DC members in absolute terms.

Disputes between " nationalist " and " liberals " wings of the party resulted in a split, with the founding of a new liberal party called the Alliance for the Future of Austria ( BZÖ ) and led by Jörg Haider.

In June 2007, MAS released with the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance a new documentary about the future of the New York waterfront titled City of Water.

As of the latest expansion, Cataclysm, the new Alliance race Worgen and the Horde's Trolls are able to become druids in addition to Tauren and Night Elves.