How to Use coalition in a Sentence

coalition

noun
  • The groups united to form a coalition.
  • A multiparty coalition ruled the country.
  • The group is working in coalition with other environmental groups.
  • Members of both the Senate majority and the House coalition are hoping to see a new plan.
    Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Jan. 2023
  • Orsi on Sunday won 49.8% of the vote with his Frente Amplio coalition.
    Russell Contreras, Axios, 26 Nov. 2024
  • But there are major hurdles to achieving a deal for Netanyahu, whose coalition relies on several far-right ministers.
    Laura Kelly, The Hill, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The controversy fizzled because the coalition was being dissolved.
    oregonlive, 29 Jan. 2023
  • If successful, Starmer said, the coalition could drive down global energy prices while reducing our reliance on fossil fuels.
    Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
  • This, of course, is bad news for the Tuku + Genevieve coalition, who are relying on Caroline’s vote for a majority against Sol.
    Emma Sharpe, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
  • The Save Local Restaurants coalition did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
    Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The coalition of hotels involved in talks with the union welcomed the deal.
    John Antczak, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2024
  • The coalitions working to keep the world safe from AI must start looking more like it.
    Hamza Chaudhry, TIME, 24 July 2024
  • Neo-Nazis and skinheads threatened the goals of this coalition.
    TIME, 7 May 2024
  • Suburban women were a core part of the coalition that helped Democrats take the White House in 2020.
    Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Now, Biden must make the case — both at home and abroad — for sustaining that coalition as the war drags on.
    Zeke Miller and, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The coalition that drew up the proposal is not required by law to come up with a way to pay for it.
    Blake Apgar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The strike will move forward if a deal isn’t reached by Sept. 30, when the unions’ current contracts expire, the coalition said.
    Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Rutte may turn to the right wing for coalition partners more in sync with his new stance on migration.
    Time, 10 July 2023
  • But, look, the point is, is that Joe Biden knows how to put together a winning coalition.
    ABC News, 5 Feb. 2023
  • Scholz, of course, suffers from the fallout of the war in Ukraine, which has strained his coalition and driven up prices in Germany.
    David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The current government is a tense coalition between the ÖVP and Greens.
    Frey Lindsay, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024
  • Maryland is not part of the Democratic coalition that filed the lawsuit.
    Angela Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Last week, a coalition of civil rights groups filed new lawsuits on behalf of a dozen inmates at the Dublin prison.
    Tim Arango, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2024
  • The main issue, the coalition found, was that many cards were sent to outdated addresses.
    Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 July 2023
  • For the past five years, the Socialists have ruled the country in a coalition with Podemos, a populist extreme left-wing force.
    José María Aznar, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The party’s extended surge in the polls comes on the back of mounting discontent with the ruling coalition.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2024
  • The bill, and others like it, are spelled out in agreements between Netanyahu and his coalition partners.
    Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 30 July 2023
  • The Navajo Nation is part of the five-tribe coalition that co-manages the monument in southern Utah.
    Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 24 May 2023
  • Jordan's working right now to put that coalition together to get to 217.
    CBS News, 15 Oct. 2023
  • He’s done a really nice job of building a broad coalition of support.
    Ross O'Keefe, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 6 Aug. 2024

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