`` They are determined '', Montgomery writes, `` not to be surprised again, and now insist on a state of readiness for war which is not only unnecessary, but also creates nervousness among other nations in the Western Alliance -- not to mention such great suspicions among the nations of the Eastern bloc that any progress towards peaceful coexistence or disarmament is not possible ''.

Following the rise of the Taliban in 1996, Massoud, who rejected the Taliban's fundamentalist interpretation of Islam, returned to the armed opposition, serving as the military and political leader of the United Islamic Front ( also known in the West as Northern Alliance ).

The founder of the movement was a former Christian and Missionary Alliance pastor, David Brandt Berg ( 1919 – 1994 ), also known within the group as Moses David, Mo, Father David, and Dad to adult group members, and eventually as Grandpa to the group's youngest members.

After the election the New-Flemish Alliance ( N-VA ) also joined the EFA.

William was also stadtholder of the main provinces of the Dutch Republic, then in the preliminary stages of joining the War of the Grand Alliance against France, in a context of international tensions caused by the revocation by Louis XIV of the Edict of Nantes and the disputed succession of Cologne and the Electorate of the Palatinate.

Honduras also joined its six Central American neighbors at the 1994 Summit of the Americas in signing the Alliance for Sustainable Development, known as the Conjunta Centroamerica-USA, or CONCAUSA, to promote sustainable economic development in the region.

In 1560 Marie de Guise died, and soon after the Auld Alliance also died, with the signing of the Treaty of Edinburgh, which provided for the removal of French and English troops from Scotland.

He also established a Latin rap supergroup called Latin Alliance, which released their only album, Latin Alliance, in 1991.

Airline alliances, such as Oneworld and the Star Alliance, have also been described as keiretsu.

National and regional trade unions organizing in specific industry sectors or occupational groups also form global union federations, such as Union Network International, the International Transport Workers Federation, the International Federation of Journalists or the International Arts and Entertainment Alliance.

As many as 2, 000 Taliban fighters who surrendered were reportedly massacred by the Northern Alliance after the battle, and reports also place U. S. ground troops at the scene of the massacre.

It is also known as the Nazi – Soviet Pact, Hitler – Stalin Pact, German – Soviet Non-aggression Pact and sometimes the Nazi – Soviet Alliance.

Originating from the Pagan Community Projects in Queensland in 2005, the Pagan Alliance Network ( PAN ) also ran a comprehensive PAGANDash program prior to the 2011 census in Australia.

He also negotiated the Triple Alliance in 1882 with Austria-Hungary and Italy ; this was a completely different Alliance to the Dual Alliance.

Some groups also sprang up including the National Union for Liberation led by John Osmena and Diosdado Macapagal, the Mindanao Alliance, the Muslim Federal Party, the Pusyon Bisaya, and the Young Philippines.

Other organizations of Presbyterians, such as the Confessing Movement and the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, have also organized on the other side of the issue to support maintaining the current standards of ordination.

* Paraguayan War, also known as the War of the Triple Alliance ( 1864 – 1870 ), a major war in South America

In addition to its own slate, the NLP also endorsed candidates in other races, including Republicans and New Alliance Party members.

Solar-thermal monoprop thrusters are also integral to the design of a next-generation cryogenic upper stage rocket proposed by U. S. company United Launch Alliance ( ULA ).

* The Aztec Triple Alliance ( also known as The Aztec Empire ) forms with the alliance of three Aztec city-states — Tenochtitlán, Texcoco, and Tlacopán — and defeats Azcapotzalco to win control of the Valley of Mexico.

# " Quadruple Alliance " was also used as an alternative term for the Central Powers of World War I, it consisting of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria.

Antilles, also called the " greatest ace " pilot in the Rebel Alliance, also appears in the Star Wars Expanded Universe and is the lead character in most of the X-wing novels.

Also, each state promised benevolent neutrality to the other if one of them was attacked by another European power ( generally taken to be France, especially after the Franco-Russian Alliance of 1894 ).

EFA members are generally progressive, although there are some notable exceptions such as conservative New Flemish Alliance, Bavaria Party and Future of Åland, Christian-democratic ProDG and Slovene Union, centre-right Liga Veneta Repubblica, and far-right South Tyrolean Freedom.

Other times the formation of such Fronts were undertaken without the participation of other parties, such as the Socialist Alliance of Working People of Yugoslavia and the National Front of Afghanistan, though the purpose was the same: to promote the Communist Party line to generally non-communist audiences and to mobilize them to carry out tasks within the country under the aegis of the Front.

While the ethnic based army was generally successful on the battlefields, they began to have negative effects on the Fatimid's internal politics, traditionally the Berber element of the army had the strongest sway over political affairs, but as the Turkish element grew more powerful they began to challenge this, and eventually by 1020 serious riots began to break out among the Black African troops who were fighting back against a Berber / Turks Alliance.

These missions reveal that the Azzameen family are in heated competition with the Viraxo and are generally sympathetic to the Rebel Alliance.

The maintenance of a certain level of merchant shipping and of trade generally also facilitated a rapid increase in the size and quality of the Royal Navy, which eventually ( after the Anglo-Dutch Alliance of 1689 limited the Dutch navy to three-fifths of the size of the English one ) led to Britain becoming a global superpower until the mid-20th century.

Most of these people were also members of GUARD, were anti-UA, and were generally unsupportive of the Canadian Alliance, seeing it as a political vehicle for a Tory takeover even though the Alliance was dominated by former Reform Party members.

Orléans agreed, as did his secretary Guillaume Dubois, the future Cardinal, who ( together with James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope, the English Secretary of State ), is generally regarded as the principal author of the Triple Alliance.

The Labour Party, the Progressive Party, and the Alliance all have some links to socialism in their history, but under a New Zealand definition, they would generally not be considered socialist today.

Created by a coalition called the DVD + RW Alliance, this format uses a number of improved technologies that, while generally unnoticeable to the end user, make a more reliable technology.

Both Saca and Flores are members of the conservative Nationalist Republican Alliance party, generally known by its Spanish-language acronym ARENA.

Reception for Deadly Alliance was generally favorable as it both resuscitated a series that had been waning since the late 1990s and brought many new innovations to the Mortal Kombat series itself.

In the 1960s, Park made speeches in which he blamed the Anglo-Japanese Alliance and the British Empire generally for Japan's takeover of Korea.

Barmouth has one major association football team: Barmouth & Dyffryn United, the team competes in the Welsh Alliance league and is generally well supported by residents.

Attendances at Midland Alliance matches are generally small, with many matches attracting fewer than 100 spectators.

JA3D would come out quickly, within a year or two of the release of the generally successful Wildfire mod, and be followed by Jagged Alliance 3.

Throughout the 1990s, General Electors generally supported the General Voters ' Party ( a reconstitution of what had been the European faction of the now-disbanded Alliance Party ), and its successor, the United General Party, ( now the United Peoples Party ).

Since the Presidential election he has generally been seen as the spokesman of the formerly powerful Tajik ethnic group, which dominated the Northern Alliance and the Transitional Afghan Administration, but was largely sidelined after the 2004 Presidential Election.

The People's Unity Party – Socialist Party () generally referred to as the Socialist Party () was an Icelandic political party which functioned from 1938 to 1968, when the People's Alliance party was created.

It is generally regarded as a reformation of the United Front ( Northern Alliance ) of the anti-Taliban resistance era.

The CFE often stood candidates for the major NEC positions in a coalition slate with various groups including the Student Broad Left, the Socialist Workers ' Students ' Society and the National Black Students ' Alliance but generally won only one position out of six at most in successive years.