a grouping of Travian players that have simular goals

a group of corps who band together to either take over a large part of space, or who do it for protection

a group of different planets that have joined together to help each other

a group of independent entities that join together to work towards a shared purpose

a group of people who have agreed to work together because of shared interests

a group of people who have banded together, like a guild or clan

a group you can form with other players in the game

an agreement between two or more parties, made in order to advance common goals and to secure common interests

an association among groups that are established to accomplish a particular objective more effectively than the parties can succeed in doing independently

a way of declaring your guild's support for other guilds

a worthy example of what industry and government can achieve when working together

5lai[ns / n. an arrangement in which two or more countries, groups etc agree to work together in order to try to change or achieve something

short-term cooperation - an animal has been doing something with another (eg. grooming) and they stand up together - occurs with adjacently ranked animals

Multiple warlords working together for a common goal, or just to have fun. You can find a list of alliances on the Kings of Chaos forums.

A tribe or group of related genera. Among orchids many of these genera can crossbreed with other genera.

Alliances are groups of guilds that work together. See Section A.6, "Alliance Commands" for commands to create, join and leave alliances. Alternatively, you can use the Guild Window to manage your alliance. See Also Guild.

Group of players/continents who share the same beliefs and work together.

Close association of groups or businesses

A group of guilds banded together, usually under a faction.

Any group of two or more organizations that agree to work together to achieve specific short or long-term objectives. These alliances are flexible and can take many forms. Usually they make agreements and write a plan of action. They usually do not involve the establishment of a separate new organization.

an agreement between countries to work together to try to achieve the same thing, to protect each other or to protect other things which are important to both countries

In the fictional Star Fleet Universe as represented in the range of games from Amarillo Design Bureau Inc. as well as the first two Star Fleet Command games (and the Orion Pirates stand-alone addon for Starfleet Command II) from Taldren, the Alliance of the Hydran Kingdom and the Kzinti Hegemony - who were allied in the Four Powers War and were later joined in the General War by the United Federation of Planets, the Gorn Confederation and, for a time, the Tholian Holdfast - fought for 18 years against the Klingon-Lyran-Romulan Coalition.

a tape storage industry group focused on providing information and education to the marketplace on the benefits of VXA and advocating for the continued global adoption of the technology

a way for our companies to formalize our cooperative efforts around VXA Packet Technology," explained Tom Ward, President and CEO of Exabyte

a form of presence in the overseas market that represents more than a simple buy/sell agreement

a joint venture with multiple vendors partnering to provide the content

an agreement between firms to combine technical capabilities for on-going exploration and research, while a joint venture is an agreement specific to an identified property

an agreement between two or more partner companies to make certain decisions jointly

a recognition that the initial agreement is in some sense incomplete

a strategic restructuring that includes a commitment to continue, for the foreseeable future, shared or transferred decision-making power, and some type of formal agreement

An agreement among businesses, organizations or groups to work cooperatively toward a common purpose.

An agreement to act jointly. See Partnering. [D02370] RMW

The result of formal agreements between two or more nations for broad, long term objectives. Alliances are technically combined organizations

An agreement between airlines to cooperate in the provision or operation of some of their services on a route, or on a regional or global basis.

The persons or parties allied.

A union to promote common interests.

a formal political agreement between two flags

The Alliance, in New Zealand politics, is a left-wing political party. The party is currently outside parliament, but has previously been a significant presence there. It suffered a major setback after Jim Anderton, the party's leader, left the party in 2002, taking several of the party's MPs.

The Alliance (Samfylkingin) is a political party in Iceland. It is social democratic in alignment and currently the biggest opposition party. It was born in the run-up to the parliamentary elections of 1999 as an alliance of the four left-wing parties that had existed in Iceland up till then: the Social Democratic Party (Alþýðuflokkurinn), the People's Alliance (Alþýðubandalagið), the Womens's Alliance (Samtök um kvennalista) and the National Movement (Þjóðvaki).

The Alliance (Spanish: Alianza) was an electoral alliance of the Union of Puerto Rico and a dissident wing of the Republican Party. Initially formed in 1924, the Alliance was formally reconstituted into the Liberal Party in 1932.

a mutually beneficial relationship between two or more parties

a relationship that is strategical or tactical, and that is entered into for mutual benefit by two or more parties having compatible or complementary business interests and goals" (Segil L

Plant communities which have (i) the same structural characteristics, (ii) related species as dominants in the uppermost stratum, and (iii) possibly the same or related species in the understorey (see Specht et al. 1974). (See also association)

close association of nations

A collaboration of small application communities that develops systems and runs on the persistent grid infrastructure. Application With respect to grid computing in general, "application" refers to a "layer" of grid components (above infrastructure and resources). An application is a name used to identify a set of software that will execute computational jobs, manage data (access, store, read...) and has many attributes. Any application when invoked (executed) includes information that allows tracing back to the individual who is responsible for the execution.

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SCD/Alliance/ National Computational Science Alliance. This is part of NCSA but not another meaning for the NCSA acronym. The Alliance offers allocations on high-performance and high-throughput systems around the county to advance computational science and to help develop systems and applications that will be part of the National Computational Grid.

a partnership that brings together two or more companies for the common purpose of creating new value to a market