During the First World War Prime Minister Robert Borden attempted to form a coalition with the opposition Liberals to broaden support for controversial conscription legislation.

As a means of reviving the Soviet state, Gorbachev repeatedly attempted to build a coalition of political leaders supportive of reform and created new arenas and bases of power.

In 1856, Isabella attempted to form the Union Liberal Party, a pan-national coalition under the leadership of Leopoldo O ' Donnell, who had already marched on Madrid that year and deposed another Espartero ministry.

After the dissolution of the first coalition through the peace of Travendal and with the victory at Narva ; the Swedish chancellor, Benedict Oxenstjerna, attempted to use the bidding for the favor of Sweden by France and the Maritime Powers ( then on the eve of the War of the Spanish Succession ) to end the war and make Charles an arbiter of Europe.

After the war, France petitioned for the nullification of the 1938 Franco-Siamese Treaty and attempted to reassert itself in the region, but came into conflict with the Viet Minh, a coalition of Communist and Vietnamese nationalists under French-educated dissident Ho Chi Minh.

Trying to overturn the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht, Spain attempted to re-establish its territories in Italy, triggering the War of the Quadruple Alliance in which a coalition of states fought Spain.

During the war, Companys attempted to maintain the unity of his political coalition, but after the Soviet Union's consul, Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko, threatened that his country would cut off aid to Catalonia, he sacked Andrés Nin from his post as minister of Justice in December 1936.

As a diplomat in Europe during the 1780s, Jefferson unsuccessfully attempted to organize a multi-national coalition to mount a naval campaign against the Barbary Pirates of North Africa.

In 1853 the Liberal-Conservative party, formed in 1854 by a coalition, attempted to bring him out as a candidate for the upper house, which was at this date elective, but though he had broken with the advanced reformers, he could not approve of the tactics of their opponents, and refused to stand.

Over 6 weeks of relentless pounding by planes and helicopters, the Iraqi army was almost completely beaten but did not retreat, under orders from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, and by the time the ground forces invaded on 24 February, many Iraqi troops quickly surrendered to forces much smaller than their own ; in one instance, Iraqi forces attempted to surrender to a television camera crew that was advancing with coalition forces.

The avowedly anti-democratic Tories of the English colonies attempted to create a coalition with conservative Catholics in Canada East, the Parti bleu.

When the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, it cited Iraq's non-compliance with the terms of cease-fire agreement for the 1990-1991 Gulf War, as well as planning in 1993 attempted assassination of former President George H. W. Bush and firing on coalition aircraft enforcing the no-fly zones as its stated.

* The 2008 – 2009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, in which Liberal, NDP, and Bloc Quebecois Members of Parliament attempted to have a vote of non-confidence against the Conservative government and replace it with a coalition government, was unprecedented in the Canadian constitutional system, as formal party based co-operation was rare.

In the 1960s, more attempts at neutrality agreements and coalition government were attempted but as North Vietnam had no intention of withdrawing from Laos, these agreements all failed.

He attempted a comeback as the candidate of the ruling Concertación coalition for the 2009 presidential election, but was narrowly defeated.

Newcastle had retained his previous belief that Britain needed to create as broad a coalition as possible, and that events in Europe rather than the Americas would be decisive, and to this end he attempted to persuade a number of different states to join the anti-French alliance.

Sharon sacked ministers Elon and Lieberman, and the National Union left the coalition ( Elon attempted to avoid sacking by going into hiding, but ultimately failed ).

Kent later joined Sir Frederick Carter's coalition government that attempted to heal the rifts and create a cross denominational compromise that allowed power sharing between Catholics and Protestants, the funding of all denominational schools and the creation of political parties that included members of all denominations.

The uneasy alliance between the three coalition partners came to a head in July 2007 when Samoobrona leader, Andrzej Lepper, was dismissed from his position as Minister for Agriculture following a secret investigation by the Central Anticorruption Bureau ( CBA ) which attempted to link him and his department to corruptive practices.

These SOF engaged ACM ’ s who attempted to move toward coalition landing zones.

From the outset, voices both within the coalition and without attempted to persuade Chaudhry to forego the office of Prime Minister in favour of an ethnic Fijian, such as his deputy Tupeni Baba or Adi Kuini Speed ( by now, the leader of the Fijian Association Party, part of the People's Coalition ), but he refused.

A government reshuffle was attempted, but was only completed on 2 December, and it succeeded in only plunging the coalition into a severe crisis once two key PD ministers resigned from the cabinet.

The FLP also attempted to negotiate coalition preferences with the National Alliance Party ( NAPF ) and the United Peoples Party.

Borden's successor, Arthur Meighen formally attempted to make the Unionist coalition permanent by creating the " National Liberal and Conservative Party " but most Liberals ended up returning to their old party and some Conservatives balked at what they saw as an attempt to destroy the Conservative Party.

In 1940 the three largest parties in the House of Commons formed a coalition government to continue to prosecute the Second World War.

Irish coalition governments have traditionally been based on one of two large blocs in Dáil Éireann: either Fianna Fáil in coalition with smaller parties or independents, or Fine Gael and the Labour Party in coalition, sometimes with smaller parties.

The Greens became part of the Irish government for the first time following the Irish general election, 2007, having agreed upon a programme for government in coalition with Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats.

Immigrant groups who had made up an important part of the Democratic coalition, such as ethnic Germans and Irish, also voted for Harding in the election in reaction to their perceived persecution by the Wilson administration during World War I.

* February 18 – Éamon de Valera, Irish head of government since 1932, loses power to an opposition coalition.

Although the Whigs at first formed the most important part of the coalition, the Whiggish elements of the new party progressively lost influence during the long leadership of the Peelite William Ewart Gladstone, and many of the old Whig aristocrats broke from the party over the issue of Irish home rule in 1886 to help form the Liberal Unionist Party — which itself would merge with the Conservative Party by 1912.

On 13 June 2007, the Irish Green Party / Comhaontas Glas agreed to a coalition with Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats, going into government for the first time in their history.

On 13 June 2007, the Irish Green Party represented by 6 members of parliament or TDs agreed to go into a coalition government for the first time in their history, with Fianna Fáil.

The Irish Green Party were in government from 2007 until January 2011 when the party withdrew their support for the ruling coalition.

Involved with the Irish Reform Association 1904-5, they entered a loose coalition, which lasted throughout the life of the IPP ..

These successive years as the government's junior coalition partner gave the party an influence on Irish politics and economics disproportionate to its small size.

So alienated was O ' Neill by the terms of the peace the Confederates had made with Ormonde that he refused to join the Catholic / Royalist coalition and in 1648 his Ulster army fought with other Irish Catholic armies.

The Liberals formed a temporary coalition government with the Irish Parliamentary Party, and the budget passed through the House of Commons a second time without significant problems.

The Labour Party has served in government for a total of nineteen years, six times in coalition either with Fine Gael alone or with Fine Gael and other smaller parties, and once with Fianna Fáil, giving it the second-longest time in government of Irish parties, next to Fianna Fáil.

The Labour Party negotiated a new coalition, the first time in Irish political history that one coalition replaced another without a general election.

This led to the collapse of the Fianna Fáil – Labour Party coalition government when the poor handling of an extradition request from the RUC by the Irish Attorney General's office led to a further delay of Smyth's trial.

The Copperhead coalition included many Irish American Catholics in eastern cities, mill towns, and mining camps ( especially in the Pennsylvania coal fields ).

However, despite claiming to represent a movement of Irish Catholics against English Protestants, O ' Neill's forces were a shifting coalition of clans and lords and many historians see O ' Neill himself as being primarily motivated by personal ambition-specifically the securing of his authority over Tyrone in Ulster.

A more significant movement came in the 1640s, after the Irish Rebellion of 1641, when a coalition of Gaelic Irish and Hiberno-Norman Catholics set up a de facto independent Irish state to fight the Wars of the Three Kingdoms ( see Confederate Ireland ).