cement an alliance

And she was theoretically a good candidate to cement an alliance.

What cleverer way to cement an alliance than a marriage?

I'll probably have to marry some awful old man, or a scrawny little boy, just to cement an alliance.

This allowed him to cement an alliance with the Takeda.

Designed to cement an alliance between the two crime families, the sumptuous wedding had 3,000 guests.

Other contributors are hoping to cement an alliance with the administration or simply insure a receptive ear.

If this occurs, it will cement an alliance deeply suspicious of Mr. Milosevic.

In Washington, the Bush administration played down the importance of the pact, saying it fell far short of cementing an alliance between the two countries.

I'd agreed to bed the King of the Sluagh to cement an alliance with them against my enemies.

The marriage was for political purposes to cement an alliance between Octavian and Mark Antony.

"The payment for actually cementing an alliance between you and Belgarion would have to be much, much higher," Silk countered.

It also threw both Pakistan and China on the defensive and, if anything, cemented an alliance between them that India had said was its main threat.

Ibn Saud died in 1953, after having cemented an alliance with the United States in 1945.

The 1980 meeting helped cement an alliance between the Republican Party and organizations like Mr. Falwell's Moral Majority.

Most of his junior officers believed Appius cared nothing for Palia, and had married her only to cement an alliance between two powerful houses.

This was intended to cement an alliance with the Artuqids and to impress other emirs in Mesopotamia and Anatolia.

Over the last decade, the Westies cemented an alliance with the far more sophisticated, far more powerful Gambino family of the Mafia.

The following morning the indefatigable Albert, having cemented an alliance with the greengrocer's boy, took the latter's place and ingratiated himself with the cook at Malthouse.

In order to cement an alliance with the Spanish king, the margrave (widow since 1270) married Beatrice, Alfonso's daughter, at Murcia in 1271.

He was already married, but in order to cement an alliance with him the Emperor offered him a daughter of the Byzantine warlord Manuel Kamytzes.

Anna arranged an important diplomatic marriage between his daughter Seaxburh and Eorcenberht of Kent, cementing an alliance between the two kingdoms.

If Mercer's theory is correct then the bluestones may have been transplanted to cement an alliance or display superiority over a conquered enemy although this can only be speculation.

The ritualists' acts of civil disobedience and resulting jail terms had both embarrassed Low church Evangelicals and cemented an alliance with moderate High Church priests.

Their marriage was a political expedient, pan of a larger negotiation to cement an alliance of trade and protection between the Six Duchies and the Mountain Kingdom.