A leader, called the " wulin mengzhu " ( 武林盟主 ), is elected from amongst them to lead the sects to ensure law and order within the jianghu.

The six leading orthodox sects in the wulin ( Shaolin, Wudang, Emei, Kunlun, Kongtong and Mount Hua ) form an alliance to attack the cult at its headquarters on Bright Peak.

Typically but not always, the protagonist of a wuxia novel will become this leader and command the actions of wulin.

The cult's newly elected leader Zhang Wuji resolves the conflict and opens the cult to the wulin for the first time.

The Heavenly Eagle Cult is often regarded as a branch of the Ming Cult and deemed to be as equally evil and unorthodox in the wulin because of Yin Tianzheng's affiliation with the Ming Cult.

Every now and again wulin needs to have a champion, a general or a commander to lead the collective resources of wulin participants for China.

Guo becomes famous in the wulin for putting the skill to good use.

Integral to jianghu is the smaller circle of martial arts practitioners usually including the protagonists called wulin.

Inhabitants of wulin are clearly differentiated from those within jianghu, in that they all know some form of wushu or martial arts.

And the way to differentiate the good from the bad within wulin is the code of xia, those who adhere to it are good, those who do not are bad.

The standard of morality within wulin is less vigorous than that in jianghu or in the historical setting.

It is common to split wulin into black and white " ways ", denoting the criminous and virtuous.

Killers, murderers and those less scruplous belong to the " black way " would live in wulin with a bad reputation, until someone would right their wrongs.

The virtuous " white way " adherents are commonly represented by the major schools including Shaolin, Wudang, Emei to name a few, who are the benchmark " good guys " of wulin.

The different schools are looked up to, and usually act as the elder advisors to the smaller elite circle within wulin.

It consists of several martial artists gathered in the wulin ( 武林 ), usually congregated in sects, clans, disciplines and various schools of martial arts.

Yang becomes an outcast of the wulin ( martial artists ' community ) and is despised by fellow pugilists.

The story revolves around the protagonist Yang Guo and his lover Xiaolongnü in their adventures in the jianghu ( also called wulin, the community of martial artists ), which does not approve of their taboo love between master and apprentice.

The adult Guo is now a prominent figure in the Chinese wulin ( martial artists ' community ) and a highly revered national hero in Han Chinese society.

After he successfully establishing a base of operations in the city, Guo and his wife work closely with Xiangyang's government and military, and their wulin allies to defend Xiangyang.

In the meantime Liu Zhengfeng of the ( South ) Mount Heng Sect announces his decision to leave the wulin ( martial artists ' community ) and invites fellow pugilists to witness his retirement ceremony.

Linghu Chong sinks into despair as he is now an outcast of the wulin.

Upon their return to mainland China, the family arouses the attention of several pugilists and sects in the wulin ( martial artists ' community ), who keep pestering them to divulge the whereabouts of Xie Xun and the Dragon Slaying Saber.

He also learns that the six major orthodox sects in the wulin are planning to attack the Ming Cult on Bright Peak.

The cult is in fact a righteous sect and not an evil cult as it is perceived in the wulin.

along the Danube and among the Carpathians, in alliance with the Emperor Joseph's armies ; ;

Faced with the possibility of annihilation, Alboin made an alliance in 566 with the Avars under Bayan I, at the expense of some tough conditions ; the Avars demanded a tenth of the Lombards ' cattle, half of the war booty, and on the war's conclusion all of the lands held by the Gepids.

He was the first of its rulers to have relations with other countries ; he entered into an alliance with Hippias of Athens, and when Hippias was driven out of Athens he offered him the territory of Anthemus on the Thermaic Gulf.

With the withdrawal of these states, a congress was called on the holy island of Delos to institute a new alliance to continue the fight against the Persians ; hence the modern designation " Delian League ".

The Gibeonites trick the Israelites into entering into an alliance with them by saying they are not Canaanites ; this prevents the Israelites from exterminating them, but they are enslaved instead.

This alliance between Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Montenegro became known as the Balkan League ; its existence was undesirable for all the Great Powers.

The Eastern leaders retaliated against these steps by integrating the economies of their nations in Comecon, their version of the Marshall Plan ; exploding the first Soviet atomic device in 1949 ; signing an alliance with People's Republic of China in February 1950 ; and forming the Warsaw Pact, Eastern Europe's counterpart to NATO, in 1955.

Its primary tasks are ; NATO participation in accordance with the strategy of the alliance, detect and repel any sovereignty violation of Danish territory ( including Greenland and the Faroe Islands ), defence cooperation with non-NATO members, especially Central and East European countries, international missions in the area of conflict prevention, crises-control, humanitarian, peacemaking, peacekeeping, participate in Total Defence in cooperation with civilian resources and finally maintain a sizable force to execute these tasks at all times.

He married Bertha, the Christian daughter of Charibert, king of the Franks, thus building an alliance with the most powerful state in contemporary Western Europe ; the marriage probably took place before Æthelberht came to the throne.

These marriages often were alliance or succession devices: the Soga lord ensured the domination of a prince, to be put as puppet to the throne ; or a prince ensured the combination of two imperial descents, to strengthen his own and his children's claim to the throne.

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As historian John McManners argues, " In eighteenth-century France throne and altar were commonly spoken of as in close alliance ; their simultaneous collapse ... would one day provide the final proof of their interdependence.

However, the rivalry between Rome and Carthage had grown since the war with Pyrrhus ; therefore, according to Warmington, an alliance with both powers was simply no longer feasible.

Finland's foreign politics before this deal had been varied: independence from Imperial Russia with support of Imperial Germany in 1917 ; participation in the Russian Civil War ( without official declaration of war ) alongside the Triple Entente 1918 – 1920 ; a non-ratified alliance with Poland in 1922 ; association with the neutralist and democratic Scandinavian countries in the 1930s ended by the Winter War ( 1939 ); and finally in 1940, a rapprochement with Nazi Germany, the only power able to protect Finland against the expansionist Soviet Union, leading to the Continuation War in 1941.

The Red Finns did not accept total alliance with the Bolsheviks ; major disputes continued over demarcation of the border between Red Finland and Soviet Russia, and over the civil rights of Russian citizens in Finland.

At this point, Emperor Menelik turned to France, offering a treaty of alliance ; the French response was to abandon the Emperor to secure Italian approval of the Treaty of Bardo which would secure French control of Tunisia.

William had already acquired the reputation of being the main champion in Europe of the Protestant cause against Catholicism and French absolutism ; in the developing English crisis he saw an opportunity to prevent an Anglo-French alliance and bring England to the anti-French side, by carrying out a military intervention directed against James.

The foreign office argued that: first, a long-term coalition between France and Russia had to fall apart ; secondly, Russia and Britain would never get together ; and, finally, Britain would eventually seek an alliance with Germany.

Furthermore, Anglo – German relations cooled as Germany aggressively tried to build a new empire and engaged in a naval race with Britain ; London refused to agree to the formal alliance that Germany sought.