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.
  • The coalition of hotels involved in talks with the union welcomed the deal.
    John Antczak, Fortune, 26 Mar. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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  • The main issue, the coalition found, was that many cards were sent to outdated addresses.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
  • Jordan's working right now to put that coalition together to get to 217.
    CBS News, 15 Oct. 2023
  • The coalition hopes the meeting will result in greater public and private partnerships to stop fake reviews at the source.
    Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 8 Nov. 2023
  • That means the candidate winning the primary will have to build a diverse coalition.
    Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 20 June 2023
  • What would follow any coalition deal would be horse trading between the PP and Vox on cabinet and policy.
    Anthony Faiola, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
  • The protests, held by a coalition of organizations, were the largest in a string of recent pro-Palestinian rallies in Denver.
    Karin Brulliard, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2023
  • On Friday morning local time, a U.S.-led coalition responded with more than a dozen strikes in an attempt to reduce the Houthis' campaign.
    Caitlin McCabe, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2024
  • That result was likely due in part to the influence of Chief Justice John Roberts, who built coalitions with both the liberal and conservative wings of the court.
    John Fritze, USA TODAY, 10 July 2023
  • His meetings this week threaten to expose major rifts in the coalition of countries that has spent much of the past 500 days pushing back against Russia’s aggression in Ukraine.
    William Booth, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
  • The coalition argued that the amendment actually strengthens the rights of parents, who would have the option of helping their child choose how to handle a pregnancy.
    Peter Slevin, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Evelyn’s travel documents to New Mexico list the coalition as the payee.
    Amber Ferguson, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2024
  • Israel won’t relent until the root threat posed to it by Iran and its proxies also gets addressed, even once Netanyahu and his extremist coalition are out of the picture.
    Marc Champion, Twin Cities, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Macron did, however, announce that a new coalition would be created to supply Ukraine with medium-range and long-range missiles.
    Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 27 Feb. 2024
  • In June 2019, the four remaining parcels were put up for auction, pitting Andrade against a coalition of other descendants who had elected not to sell their shares.
    Guthrie Scrimgeour, WIRED, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Trump and Biden made their own announcements to shore up key segments of their own political coalitions and secure a path to victory.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 18 July 2023
  • But the principle has been weakened in recent years as more center-right parties have proven willing to build coalitions with more extremist groups.
    Christian Edwards, CNN, 14 Mar. 2024
  • And that means doing a better job of holding this Netanyahu coalition accountable—and future coalitions.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2024

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